In Remote Valley, a Grim Redefinition of âFishingâ
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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Aida Edemariam on how the world's biggest oil rush is tearing apart a frontier town in Alberta and its people
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From outside Nevada, it's hard to fully appreciate just how expansive, how desolate the truly wide open spaces of the state can be.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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The region's booming growth has counterbalanced trouble elsewhere. But the long dry spell is taking a toll.
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By Abdul Razak Abu Samah  THE decision to dam the rivers in the vast jungle area in the Klau Valley in Pahang to supply raw water to the Klang Valley is a mistake, the effects of which will only be felt in years to come.  We seem to be going round in a vicious circle.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS  BALLARAT, Calif. - Whoever named Surprise Canyon got it right. Mere miles from bone-dry Death Valley, the canyon cradles two unexpected jewels: a gushing mountain stream and what's left of a once-bustling silver mining town.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.
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Amid rusted hulks of abandoned  plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town  Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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What Greg Ray remembers is seeing a mountain come down on him. What he doesn't understand is why he survived while two of his friends died in a torrent of liquid earth that buried homes in the hamlet of La Conchita.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;s devastated Aceh province yesterday as officials tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were thought to have died
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Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the middle of one of the nation's worst environmental nightmares.