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In Colombia plane crash, pilot skill praised for minimal injury

Officials in Colombia called it a “miracle” that the plane crash on a Colombian island early Monday morning resulted in just one death. Even as authorities work to determine what caused the Boeing 737 to go down, deft piloting is …

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2010 Russian wildfires

The 2010 Russian wildfires are a series of hundreds of wildfires that broke out across Russia, primarily in the west, from late July 2010 to present, due to record temperatures (hottest summer in Russian history) and drought in the region. …

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Ten deadliest natural disasters

A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the …

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World’s Largest oil spills

An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum stuff into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or …

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U.S. Puts Oil Spill Total at Nearly 5 Million Barrels

Nearly five million barrels of oil have gushed from the BP’s well since the Deepwater Horizon spill began on April 20, federal scientists said on Monday in announcing the most precise estimates yet of the well’s flow rate. The estimates …

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