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The Extinction Event That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Almost Didnt Happen
2017-11-09 22:03:38| Extremetech
A new study suggests the chances of our existing in the first place were extremely low. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that eventually led to the rise of mammals hit exactly where it needed to. The post The Extinction Event That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Almost Didn’t Happen appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Vision Zero Gains Wiped Out by Surge in Fatalities
2017-07-24 17:31:54| PortlandOnline
Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune, July 29, 2017
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Elephants Wiped Out on Alarming Scale in Southern Africa
2016-04-06 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A chunk of territory in southern Africa about the size of France has long been considered one of the last strongholds of the African elephant. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, better known as KAZA, straddles Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe and was believed to hold as many as 250,000 elephants. But all is not well there. The latest statistics from the Great Elephant Census, an ambitious elephant-counting project led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen's private...
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How a tweet wiped $8bn off Twitter
2015-04-29 14:16:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How 25% of Twitter's value was wiped out by a tweet
Vanuatu leader says 'monster' cyclone has 'wiped out' development on South Pacific island
2015-03-15 22:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Vanuatu's president said the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago was a "monster" that has destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital Port Vila and has forced the nation to start anew. Looking weary and red-eyed, Baldwin Lonsdale said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press that the latest information he has is that six people are confirmed dead and 30 injured from Cyclone Pam. He appealed for international aid for a place he calls "paradise."...
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