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As Glaciers Melt, Alpine Mountains Lose Their Glue, Threatening Swiss Village
Posted by New York Times: John Tagliabue on May 30th, 2013
New York Times: Marco Bomio recalls that bright Sunday morning in June 2006 as if it were yesterday. Mr. Bomio, 59, a school principal and mountain guide, attended a religious service on a high mountain meadow to mark the founding of a local guide group. “Suddenly we saw this immense cloud,” he said over coffee in a wood chalet typical of this Alpine village. “Normally, it might have been snow. But in June?” “Then we saw that it wasn’t snow,” he went on. “It was rock dust: part of the mountain had come down.”...
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Netherlands: Parts of Low Country Are Now Quake Country
Posted by New York Times: John Tagliabue on March 26th, 2013
New York Times: Jannes Kadyk’s modest brick home suffered more than $5,000 in damage. Bert de Jong’s more stately home will need about $500,000 to get back into shape.
Both houses, like thousands of others, were damaged during recent earthquakes that have shaken the flat farmland in this area dotted with villages and tucked up against the North Sea.
The quakes were caused by the extraction of natural gas from the soil deep below. The gas was discovered in the 1950s, and extraction began in the 1960s, but only...