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The growth of Chinese and Indian economies is improving their well being, but at a very high environmental cost. Widespread air pollution and greenhouse gases are having a range of complex effects ...

This video uses 3-D map animations to locate and characterize the New Madrid Earthquake Zone in the Mississippi River Valley. It relives newspaper article accounts of a series of great earthquakes that occurred between 1811 - 1812 and includes animation of how the Mississippi River Valley was created. Computer plots of the epicenters show how the fault is mapped. Courtesy USGS

Alaska's Arctic coast is eroding at up to 100 feet a year in some places as the warming climate thaws tundra and open water raises waves that pound shores. Researchers from the Univ. of Colorado cr...