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Feature: Rock - Water - Air: A Personal Account Of The 2002 Quecreek Mine Rescue

PA Environment Daily

By David Hess, Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection at the Time of the Rescue On July 24, 2002 miners broke through into an abandoned, water-filled mine flooding the Quecreek Mine with over 150 million gallons of water.

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HotSpots H2O: In Malaysia, the Mah Meri Resist Eviction from Coastal Homeland

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In 2002, courts ruled in favor of the Temuan, a tribe that had been served eviction notices in 1995 by Malaysian state authorities. . The notices arrived in late April, and gave families 30 days to move out, Mongabay reports. The timing coincided with the state giving a lease for the land to Sepang GoldCoast resort.

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Risky Drinking Water Pathogen Has Outsized Effect on Black Americans

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The CDC study compared Legionnaires’ cases in the last two decades to a baseline period from 1992 to 2002, after which case counts began to rise. People are infected with the noncontagious disease when they inhale airborne bacteria attached to water droplets. times higher than the baseline period.

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Great Barrier Reef Is Hit by Another Mass Bleaching Event

Yale E360

Mass beachings have grown more frequent with rising temperatures, afflicting the reef in 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, and again this year. The Great Barrier Reef is undergoing its sixth mass bleaching event, as unusually warm waters stress corals, authorities say. Read more on E360 ?.

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The Antarctic’s polar vortex could be about to split in two

New Scientist

A split in the southern vortex – not seen since 2002 – could lead to sudden warming of the Antarctic stratosphere and hotter weather in Australia and South America

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Hawaiian Crows Return to the Wild, Where They Are ‘Guides to Lost Souls’

Scientific American

The Hawaiian crow, or ‘alalā, has been extinct in the wild since 2002. A new effort to reintroduce birds of this species—considered important guides to the souls of the dead in Hawaiian tradition—is underway

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David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

Inside Climate News

By Jake Bolster In July 2002, 18 miners working at the Quecreek mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, entered a chamber 240 feet below ground and accidentally broke through the wall of an abandoned, flooded mine, unleashing millions of gallons of trapped water.

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