Lake in Southern Chile Disappears
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The water in a lake in southern Chile has disappeared in a matter of months, leading scientists to speculate what happened.
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By Liz Fabian, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 14--The search for a missing boater on Lake Sinclair is hampered by a number of factors including the depth, clarity and temperature of the water.
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By Katie Burford SANTIAGO, Chile  - When 30-year-old Jose Bermudezabandoned Lima for the promise of a job in Chile, he was amongthe last in his family to leave Peru.
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By DAVID GREENWOOD  CONSERVATIONISTS are celebrating the end of a major operation to save rare fish found only in a North Wales lake from the jaws of its arch enemy.
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Rivers of ice at the Equator &#151; foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th &#151; are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
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A Peruvian government flight serving as a link between isolated jungle communities disappeared in the country's northeastern rain forest with 20 people on board, the Defense Ministry said Friday.
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A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole.
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By Jane Wooldridge, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -- A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist Sydney Hollingworth that he asked to buried here.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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SEWELL, Chile  - Encrusted on the bare rock of the  Andes, Sewell is a ghost town now. But in its glory days 15,000  miners who dug copper out of the mountain lived in this  isolated, austere mining camp without cars or booze, under a  constant threat of avalanches.
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Lake Vostok, an Antarctic freshwater lake buried by 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice, may host a diverse community of microbial life-forms, scientists say.
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Thousands of panicking people in southern Chile flee their homes after a false tsunami alarm.
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PUNTA ARENAS, Chile -- The worst of the ozone hole has pulled back once more to Antarctica this southern spring, leaving behind a shadow of uncertainty for the people living at the bottom of the Americas.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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Many remote areas of the Pacific have been cut off from the outside world after the loss of the Intelsat IS-804 satellite.
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COCHRANE, Chile  - Living in this small town in southern Chile, 1,250 miles from his capital city Santiago and surrounded by snow-capped mountains, Domingo Arriagada feels cut off from most of his compatriots.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- What happened Tuesday was unexpected. Today, they know it could get worse.