A mudslide is more than mere mud: It’s a concretelike mass of sopping earth gathering everything in its path—trees, boulders, cars—as it careers downhill at up to 50 miles per hour. Most mudslides are so loaded with rubble that scientists prefer to call them debris flows. Anything that soaks the ground can trigger them—rainfall, snowmelt, [...]
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Anatomy of a Mudslide
March 16th, 2010 
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December 24th, 2009 Admin Planet Earth is facing a multitude of problems. They are: water shortage, climate change, melting ice- caps and global warming to name a few. The root of all her problems can be traced to the injury caused to her by the enormous population of the human species. The problem has arisen because Man is successfully [...]
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December 20th, 2009 Admin “Recently my stepdaughter was at the end of an English lesson and the teacher asked what she had next. When mathematics was mentioned, the teacher indicated that maths was a tough subject and not really what a person doing English should be studying. ” This anecdote from Professor Peter Main, director of education and science [...]
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