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Like the busily 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 NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, which warns scientists when their part of the world is at risk for bleaching. And though climate change awareness is up, and embattled reefs do get moments of compassion, the public has a short attention span when it comes to ecosystems it can't see. So do policy makers. Bruno says more coral data is being gathered today...
...Mining engineers call it a "bump," but that seems like far too tame a term for what happened at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah Thursday night. As rescuers tried to dig down to where six coal miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, the walls of their tunnel exploded inward violently, hurling projectiles of rock and coal at the workers. The awful result: two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector are dead, and several more are in the hospital...
...NATURE 8 million Age, in years, of a stand of preserved cypress trees discovered in a Hungarian mine 60 Depth of the mine, in meters, which was once an open-air forest. The 6-m-tall trunks are the remains of trees that once stood about 35 m tall. The wood is too brittle to move
...stand of preserved cypress trees discovered in a Hungarian mine...
Depth of the mine, which was once an open-air forest. The 19-ft.-tall trunks are the remains of trees that once stood 120 ft. tall. The wood is too brittle to move...