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No injuries reported in massive landslide from B.C.’s Joffre Peak
<p>Provincial officials are still taking stock after a huge landslide sheared tonnes of rock from Joffre Peak, near the popular Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.<br />Pictures and video from the scene show a massive, grey trail of rock debris coming from the collapsed ...
Ecuador’s ‘Troublemaker’ volcano sends lava flying in fiery explosion
Global News   19 December 2017   Ecuador  
Ecuador’s ‘Troublemaker’ volcano sends lava flying in fiery explosion
<p>A little-known active stratovolcano erupted in a fiery explosion in the Amazonian Andes of Ecuador known as 'Reventador' in early December. Reventador is Spanish for 'troublemaker'.<br />British volcano photographer Dr. Richard Roscoe documented the spectacular ...
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60 million-year-old fossils found in Calgary during basement excavation
Global News   28 May 2015   Canada   Calgary  
Fossilized fish Global. News / Dani Lantela
<p>CALGARY &ndash; The fossils of five fish thought to be 60 million-years-old have been uncovered in the city&rsquo;s northwest.</p> <p>The near-perfect fish fossils were unearthed by Edgar Nernberg during the excavation of a basement he was digging in the ...
Japan to build huge, costly sea wall to fend off tsunamis
Global News   22 March 2015   Japan   Miyako city  
Miyako city tsunami / JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images
<p>SENDAI, Japan &ndash; Four years after a towering tsunami ravaged much of Japan&rsquo;s northeastern coast, efforts to fend off future disasters are focusing on a nearly 400-kilometre chain of cement sea walls, at places nearly five stories high.</p>
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