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...Like receding glaciers in the Arctic, coral reefs are a canary in the global-warming coal mine. "They are a sensitive species that are affected first," says C. Mark Eakin, coordinator of the Coral Reef Watch program of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Though climate change awareness is up, the public has a short attention span when it comes to ecosystems it can't see. So do policymakers. Bruno says more coral data is being gathered today by NGOs than universities or national programs, particularly in developing nations. But even in the U.S., NOAA's satellite-data...
...partly to worries that liberalization of the transatlantic market next year will cut into its profits. Under current rules, only BA, Virgin and the U.S. carriers American Airlines and United Airlines can fly to and from the U.S. via Heathrow. For BA, that restricted access has been a gold mine. With the industry in meltdown in the wake of 9/11, BA "rightly used the cartel of Heathrow to the U.S. to generate a large proportion of recovery in profits," says Nick van den Brul, an airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London...
...attempts to reach the trapped miners were halted immediately, and Utah Governor John Huntsman urged that they be called off completely. It's not his decision - that's in the hands of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - but it may be the only choice. When the original disaster happened 11 days ago, the six original miners were caught some 2,000 ft. from the entrance. That pretty much ensured that it would take a long time to reach them: rescuers essentially have to re-excavate the entire entrance tunnel, now filled with rubble - and do it with...
...rescuers had to move very slowly, shoring up the walls and ceilings as best they could - an unconscionable situation, says McAteer. "If we cannot get to miners in a faster, quicker and safer way then we ought not to be engaging in mining where the risks are so great. We should not permit mining at that level of risk." Indeed, it was the long delay in getting to miners that caused 12 deaths in the Sago coal mine disaster in January 2006. In that case, there was no collapse, but rather an explosion in the West Virginia mine. If those...
Better communication devices could at least have pinpointed the miners' location, letting mine officials drill down to get them food, water and air. Could the miners possibly be alive? "It's feasible," says Carol Raulston, of the National Mine Association. There could be pockets of air for them to breathe. Beyond that, she says, "there's water in the mine, and people have been known to survive this long without extra food." Indeed, every time a major earthquake levels a city, rescuers always seem to pull one last victim out of the rubble long after any reasonable hope was gone...