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How geologists are using history’s worst nuclear disaster to open up earth’s history

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Chernobyl released more than 400 times as much radioactive material as the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Denis Fougerouse

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Saxena asks officials to start work on retrofitting of buildings to make them earthquake resistant

What’s happening at Fukushima plant 12 years after meltdown?

Rice into low-carbon plastic: bringing hope to a struggling Fukushima town

Landslips kill 10 in Indonesia; rescuers search for 42 missing people

This photo provided by Timothy Mousseau in February 2023 shows a dog in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine. More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Turkey; more buildings collapse

3 dead, more than 200 hurt as new quake hits Turkey, Syria

A cable suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi, Gujarat on October 31, 2022.

Morning Digest | SIT on Morbi bridge tragedy finds lapses in repairs, maintenance; Chandrayaan-3 lander completes EMI-EMC test, and more

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An earthen pot used in Hindu rituals lies between the cracked and damaged walls of a house in the Singdhar area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, on January 13, 2023.

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Rescue teams search a destroyed building on February 13, 2023 in Islahiye, Turkey

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The life guard unit of the Coimbatore District Police with rescue equipment.

Coimbatore District Police set up life guard unit to prevent drowning in Bhavani

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A man walks through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.

Turkey arrests building contractors 6 days after quakes

Utter devastation: The search for surivors in a collapsed building after the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey on February 11, 2023.

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Rescue workers search for survivors on a collapsed building in Malatya, eastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.

Indian found dead under rubbles in quake-hit Turkey’s Malatya

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Seven workers die of asphyxiation in an edible oil tank in A.P.’s Kakinada district

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Members of the Algerian rescue team search for survivors at the site of a damaged building, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Aleppo, Syria February 8, 2023.

Syria requests assistance from EU after massive earthquake

Aerial photo shows the destruction in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.

Turkey earthquake | One Indian missing, 10 stuck in quake affected areas of Turkey: MEA

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Former BJP leader and advocate L. Victoria Gowri (2nd R) with other judges after she was sworn in as an additional judge of the Madras High Court, in Chennai, on February 7, 2023.

Top news of the day: SC declines to intervene in Victoria Gowri’s appointment; Turkey, Syria search for survivors as quake deaths surpass 5,000, and more

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People and emergency teams search for people in the rubble in a destroyed building in Gaziantep, Turkey, on February 6, 2023.

Powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria leave over 3,800 dead

Cracks appeared in houses at Nai Basti area in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir.

J&K admin keeping watch, not Joshimath-like situation: L-G over cracks in structures in Doda

A resident tries to put out the fire, as a wildfire burned parts of rural areas in Santa Juana, near Concepcion, Chile, on February 3, 2023.

13 dead in Chile amid struggle to contain raging wildfires

The sight of accident at Thousand Lights.

Corporation stops demolition work, issues notice to the property owner

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Residents paste placards with the slogan ‘NTPC Go Back’ on a signboard in Joshimath on January 13, 2023.

Evacuees from ‘sinking’ Joshimath await pre-fabricated houses