Dust Storms
Dust storms are windstorms that severely blow dust clouds across a large area in arid or semi-arid regions. Dust storms are different from dust devils, which are small atmospheric dust-fil...
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They're old and dirty, but NASA's Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power.With skies gra...
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Ranching, mining, energy exploration and other activities that raise dust in the West are helping diminish the snowpack that supplies much of the region's water, a new study says.Colorado scientist...
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A blinding sandstorm that caught drivers by surprise caused a 12-car pileup Tuesday on a highway in the high desert north of Los Angeles, killing at least two people and injuring 16, authorities sa...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marked the 27th anniversary of the failed U.S. operation to rescue 53 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by saying God and Iran had "clobbered the enemy...
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Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine. The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics,...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE STORM OVER IMMIGRATION (The Washington Post, Washington)
THE VIRULENCE and breadth of opposition to the Senate
immigration bill has k...
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New Delhi (dpa) - At least 27 people were killed as a heat wave
intensified across northern and central India causing day-time
temperatures in several cities to cross the 45...
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Islamabad/New Delhi (dpa) - At least 137 people died in Pakistan
and India since the weekend from the effects of an intense heatwave,
news reports said Monday.
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Dust Storms
Mars rovers OK after dust storm
