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Work crews shoveled mud Friday from the back yards of several homes after a brief cloudburst unleashed flows of debris down steep mountains left barren by the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history.
Nearly seven million pounds of debris was collected from waterways and shorelines around the world during a single day last year, illustrating that careless people are discarding trash just about everywhere, with much of it eventually finding an aquatic home, according to a report released Tuesday.
Two pieces of a meteor that blazed across the Texas sky earlier this month are going from the asteroid belt to the auction block.
In a Feb. 19 story about meteor pieces found in Texas, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the director of the planetarium and astronomy lab program at the University of North Texas. He is Ron DiIulio, not DiLulio.
Two University of North Texas astronomers think they've found two pieces of a meteor that alarmed numerous residents when it streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday.
The world's longest undeveloped barrier island now looks as if people have been living — and dumping — on it for decades.
Birds and turtles are developing digestive problems as their stomachs fill with plastic they mistakenly believe is food. The endangered Hawaiian monk seal population is struggling as many of the mammals get entangled in improperly discarded fishing nets.
It's a bird. It's a plane. And, when both occupy a runway at the same time, it's a problem.
Two years ago with fanfare, President Bush declared a remote chain of Hawaiian islands the biggest, most environmentally protected area of ocean in the world.
Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them.
Huge, whiskered male fur seals called "beach masters" are back on St. Paul Island after swimming a gantlet of lost or discarded fishing gear floating in the Bering Sea.
US Airways has found and fixed faulty wing fasteners on additional B-757 jetliners since part of the wing on one of its 757s broke off and struck a passenger window somewhere over Maryland last month, federal investigators said Tuesday.
The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.
US Airways says a small part of a jetliner's wing dislodged and hit a passenger window as it flew over Maryland.
An aggressive cleaning device sent through the trans-Alaska pipeline failed to find a 20-inch diameter metal ring that's been missing in the line since December, a spokesman for the operator said Sunday.
Explosion may have been caused by cigarAn early morning explosion wipes a house off the map. Officials believe a man went to light a cigar in the kitchen, blowing the walls off the house.
{Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to SF Bay 100-mile weekend relay swim} Swimmers brave dirty Delta for awareness Seven swimmers swimming, Sacramento to San Francisco.
Air France jet wreckage found in Atlantic, official says A debris field located early Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of Brazil is wreckage from the Air France jet that disappeared Monday, Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said. No survivors have been found, he said.
What's the Chance That Falling Space Debris Will Hit Me? | Popular ScienceIt happened in 1997 By Danny Freedman Posted 05.11.2009 at 12:10 pm 0 Comments Litter Launch: Pieces of Delta II rockets [above] fall from orbit several times a year NASA No need to don a hard hat just yet.
Cowboys scouting assistant injured in structure collapse paralyzedDallas Cowboys assistant scout Rich Behm is permanently paralyzed from the waist down, the team announced Sunday, the most serious injury resulting from the roof collapse Saturday of the team's 80-foot-high, tent-like practice facility in Irving, Texas.
Hall Avenue woman taunted by neighbor's graffiti83 year old woman is taunted and harassed by neighbor after she contacts town about messy property and debris blocking the street.
N. Korea launches rocket, defying world pressure SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea defiantly carried out a provocative rocket launch Sunday that the U.S., Japan and other nations suspect was a cover for a test of its long-range missile technology.
Woman feels blessed after surviving possible tornadoAn Ascension Parish woman is very thankful to be alive after what is believed to have been a tornado left her home as a pile of debris.
6-pound chunk of metal debris crashes through southeast Dallas roofA 6-pound chunk of metal crashed through a roof sometime Tuesday in southeast Dallas, and a day later, officials were perplexed about its origin.
U.S., Russian Satellites Collide in First Space Crash U.S. and Russian satellites collided over Siberia in the first crash between such objects, creating a debris field threatening other spacecraft, space agencies from both countries said.
Woman Killed by Collapsing Gym while Going to Brother's FuneralA woman on the way to her brother's funeral was killed when she was hit by debris from a collapsing school gymnasium, according to 911 dispatchers in McDowell County.
Debris kills boy in stands at monster truck showDebris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring another spectator, witnesses and city officials said Saturday.
Diamonds Suggest Comets Caused Killer Cold SpellThe so-called nanodiamonds are made under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts, similar to an explosion over Tunguska in Siberia that flattened trees for miles in 1908.
Casey Anthony Defense Worried Police Are Tampering With Evidence, Accuse Cops of LyingExcerpt: A spokesman for Casey Anthony's defense lawyer accused police of lying to the press and suggested they could be tampering with evidence at the site where a little child's bones were found.
Plastic bags kill croc found in Australian tourist zoneSYDNEY (AFP) -- A crocodile which was captured after menacing tourist beaches near Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef has died from eating too many plastic bags, officials said.
Largest Ever Piece of Space Station Junk to Hit Earth Today 2 Nov 08The Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) weighs 1400 lb (635 kg), is the size of two refrigerators and it's going to drop through the atmosphere some time tomorrow (Sunday, Nov. 2nd). Funny thing is, we don't know where, and we don't precisely know when.
NKorea threatens to turn SKorea into 'debris'North Korea threatened Tuesday to turn South Korea into "debris" in an unusually strong statement that demanded Seoul halt what the communist state called its policy of confrontation.
No Problems Seen for Shuttle LandingAstronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery prepared for a Saturday landing as their 14-day mission to the International Space Station neared an end.
Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests 'mass suicide' The dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall had ingested debris and mud, leading one of the scientists who examined them to compare their deaths to "mass suicide".
Tornado Unrolls, Rerolls Toilet PaperAs residents in Hugo begin to move on from last week's tornado, some say they noticed a few bizarre things amid all the damage. Jason Akins said the twister unwound a roll of toilet paper in his bathroom — draped it across the countertop, then rewound it in the sink.
Is Your Computer Slower Than When You Bought It?(ARA) - Is your PC slower now than when you bought it? Do you get error messages when you try to un-install software? Do you have desktop icons that aren't working?
U.S. issues notice on downing of satellite"The U.S. government issued a formal notice warning ships and planes to stay clear of a large area of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii."
(Video) Caught On Tape: Kids Toss Debris Onto Traffic...Caught On Tape: Kids Toss Debris Onto Traffic Children on a bridge in Des Moines, Iowa, are shown tossing debris onto traffic below....
NASA's Terra Satellite Moved to Avoid Chinese ASAT DebrisFlight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test early this year.
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