Natural disasters articles
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Today marks anniversary of Chornobyl disaster
On April 26, 1986, at 01:23, a powerful chemical explosion ripped through power unit 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant,...
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Vanderpump Villa Recap: Day-Off Disaster
Everyone loves a good reality-TV mean girl, but Hannah and Telly are too banal for their bad behavior to make good television.
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Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?
At the end of 2023, four environmental groups sued the National Park Service and invoked the Wilderness Act to stop the replanting of trees following a catastrophic wildfire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Around the same time, the National Park Service announced that it aimed to invoke the Wilderness Act to limit the use of fixed anchors on Yosemite’s iconic big wall climbs. How did a law created 60 years ago to protect nature in undeveloped areas come to do something else...