Massey blasting under way on Coal River Mountain

Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain, where environmentalists have battled Virginia-based Massey Energy over mountaintop removal mining for more than 18 months.

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Google Earth allows exploration of oceans, Mars

Google Inc. on Monday launched a new version of Google Earth that allows users to explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch regions of the Earth change over time.

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Spain's Prado teams up with Google Earth

Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works — even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye.

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Disney creates Google Earth map of Disney World

Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., will now be able to plan their tour with the help of a 3D Google Earth map created by The Walt Disney Co.

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Review: Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share

Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: Why not use that?

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Pentagon Bans Google Teams From Bases

Citing security risks, the Pentagon banned Google teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases after images of a Texas base ended up on the popular Internet site.

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Israeli Town Suing Google Over Origin

An Israeli town is suing Internet giant Google for slander over a posting by a user of its worldwide mapping service that claims the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village, an official said Monday.

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Brazil Indians, Google to Fight Logging

A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.

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Chile Asks Google to Fix Map Gaffe

Chile has asked Google Inc. to correct its popular online mapping service that shows a southern Chilean town — named after a national hero — as part of neighboring Argentina.

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18-year-old Rory McInnes was inspired by a documentary on Google Maps and decided to play a game. Armed with white paint he climbed to the roof of his parents luxurious house and painted a huge penis there.

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Researchers in Sarajevo presented an online tool Tuesday showing the locations of Bosnian war crimes in what they called an attempt to prevent death toll numbers from being manipulated and misused.

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Google is launching their version of Sim City today, Google Building Maker. The tool lets you create buildings for Google Earth. Building Maker lets you pick any building and construct a 3D version of it using photos and building blocks provided by Google.

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Just in case world leaders need to brush up on their knowledge of high and low emissions scenarios in advance of December's UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Google introduced a series of new Google Earth layers and tours yesterday focused on temperature change around the glob …

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Google Earth image shows proof of Loch Ness Monster

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A security guard claims to have spotted the Loch Ness monster while browsing Google Earth.

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Google has partnered with NASA to make the surface of the Moon navigable - on your desktop, anyway.

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Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Either that, or Google is totally trying to hide something.

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Though my farm-raised father insists differently, there's something a bit spooky about cows standing in a field. They're just a bit too placid; I've always suspected that those limpid eyes hide strange secrets.

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Today, Frank Lloyd Wright's 142nd birthday, we're excited to announce the Design It: Shelter Competition.

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An inquest heard how Mr Grant also printed off notices against the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning as he gassed himself in his car.

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TOKYO - WHEN Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn't expect a backlash.

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Earlier this week the Google Earth team released a new plugin that allows users to view Google Earth tours directly from their web browsers.

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A teenager got away with painting a 60ft phallus on the roof of his parents' home for a year before his parents found out.

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A roofer has ecaped a jail term for stealing lead worth £100,000 from some of the most historic properties in Sutton and Croydon.

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Last year, Burda and his colleagues made headlines when they first reported that cows seemed to have an internal magnetic compass.

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Atlantis explained -- or the coverup continues, depending on your level of paranoia. (Personally, I think that Google Earth has discovered a square crop circle under the sea, but that's just me).

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Google Earth may be capable of finding a lot of things, but Atlantis in not one of them, at least not this time.

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Hopes that the lost city of Atlantis had been found on Google Earth have been shattered.

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Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa.

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A man claims to have found the location of a buried ship containing gold and silver, using Google Earth.

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A treasure hunter who claims to have found a buried ship filled with treasure using Google Earth, the popular satellite imaging service, is fighting a legal battle to excavate the site.

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When Google Earth was introduced in 2005, it showed how fun digital mapping could be, allowing users to zoom over the planet's continents and explore their most spectacular features.

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She turned to him and said she loved the way Google Earth allowed users to see how one thing relates to another on the planet. But Dr. Earle bluntly added: "You've done a great job with the dirt. But what about the water?"

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Google has launched an extention of Google Earth, which will allow web users to virtually explore the ocean with thousands of images of underwater landscapes.

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