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The Pacific "ring of fire" -- the zone where tectonic plates crunch -- doesn't stop at the equator. It extends through the U.S. Pacific Northwest, which is also vulnerable to intense quakes. States like Oregon are just beginning to retrofit potentially lethal buildings, and the seismic clock is ticking."Chilean Quake a Warning to U.S. Northwest"
Dot Earth, 03/02/2010
"They ran for blocks when they saw the big truck with the Minnesota license plate roll by. Little girls and old women, little boys and young men, all chasing the shiny silver tanker down streets of Cite Soleil, one of the world’s worst slums. Past fly-infested garbage piles, by canals reeking of raw sewage, they carried buckets, pans, pots, tubs — anything that could hold what has become gold in the ruins of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake: clean water.""Called To Quench a Slum's Thirst" in Haiti
Minneapolis Star Trib, 02/26/2010
"Istanbul is one of a host of quake-threatened cities in the developing world where populations have swelled far faster than the capacity to house them safely, setting them up for disaster of a scope that could, in some cases, surpass the devastation in Haiti from last month’s earthquake.""Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones"
NYTimes, 02/25/2010
Cholera may be the next disaster in Haiti as thousands in tent cities face the coming rainy season without sanitation."Haiti’s Sanitation Problem After the Quake"
PRI's The World, 02/12/2010
"Twenty-two electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments have written action plans to make them safer. But on Thursday, as the U.S. EPA made these plans public, the agency also released engineering assessments of 40 more coal ash impoundments showing they have the 'high' or 'significant' potential to cause loss of human life, environmental damage, or damage to infrastructure.""EPA Reveals High Hazard Potential at More Coal Ash Ponds"
ENS, 02/08/2010
"Long-term efforts to help Haiti recover from the earthquake will have to reverse environmental damage such as near-total deforestation that threatens food and water supplies for the Caribbean nation, experts say.""Haiti's Environment Needs Long-Term Help: Experts"
Reuters, 01/20/2010
"The poor nation has long suffered from a lack of medical care and rampant disease. With the earthquake, aid agencies must build a healthcare system on the fly.""In Haiti, Aid Workers Face a Dual Challenge"
LA Times, 01/18/2010
"Doctors and aid workers worry that a wave of infectious disease may soon spread through Haiti, with masses of the newly homeless clustering in public spaces without clean water or sanitation."Haiti: "Survivors Face Threat of Outbreak of Disease"
Wall St. Journal, 01/15/2010
"Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are awaiting the start of a global rescue effort in the wake of the country's devastating earthquake.""Haiti Earthquake Survivors Await Global Aid Effort"
BBC News, 01/14/2010
"The Obama administration has decided not to support a global monitoring system for biological weapons, a move that affirms an earlier determination by the Bush administration but that will disappoint some nonproliferation experts.""U.S. To Unveil Biological Threat Strategy"
Wash Post, 12/09/2009
"Twenty-five years ago Thursday, a leak of the chemical methyl isocyanate -- MIC -- killed thousands of people who lived near a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. It was the worst industrial disaster in history. Since then, residents of the Kanawha Valley have lived with and periodically complained about the huge stockpile of MIC at a sister facility, the former Carbide plant in Institute.""25 Years After Bhopal, Institute Still Reducing MIC"
Charleston Gazette, 12/03/2009
"A new top inspector took charge Tuesday of the International Atomic Energy Agency as it faces one of the most turbulent periods in its 52-year history." Also: "The newly elected chemical weapons chief says he will pursue the last seven holdouts — including Israel, Egypt and Syria — to get them to sign a disarmament treaty and submit weapons stockpiles for inspection."New Chiefs at UN Nuclear, Chemical Weapons Agencies
NYTimes, 12/03/2009
"Twenty-five years on, the world's worst industrial accident continues to kill and blight many lives. And still there's been no trial.""Bhopal: the Victims Are Still Being Born"
Independent, 12/01/2009
As the 25th anniversary of the chemical leak in Bhopal, India, approaches, the effects are still painfully present. Thousands were killed immediately; tens or hundreds of thousands were injured in the longer term. It could happen in the U.S."Bhopal Gas Survivors Mark 25 Years of Agony"
AFP, 11/30/2009
"In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina."Corps Neglect Doomed Some New Orleans Homes, Judge Rules
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 11/19/2009
