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	<title>The Why Files &#187; Natural hazards</title>
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		<title>Fuel Faves: Coffee meets diesel!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/fuel-faves-coffee-meets-diesel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oils in spent coffee grounds are easily converted into biodiesel -- a renewable source of transportation energy. Bottoms up for CofFuel? ]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake safety: It begins at home</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2008/earthquake-safety-it-begins-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 19:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of millions live and work in houses and schools that will collapse when the earth starts quaking.  The lesson from California, where big quakes cause small death tolls, is this: Smart engineering can save lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Storm: What are hurricanes?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/hurricane-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do they form? How do we predict their paths? How can we improve predictions?]]></description>
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		<title>Winter&#8217;s Weird Weather: What&#8217;s the Cause?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some call it Fall. Some call it spring. But nobody in the Midwest, East Coast or Northern Europe is calling it "winter." What's up with our weather?]]></description>
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		<title>Trees: Natural Barrier to Tsunami Waves?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2005/trees-natural-barrier-to-tsunami-waves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Could something as simple, cheap and natural as a forest protect a coastline from a tsunami's titanic wave? It's looking that way...]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina&#8217;s Whirlwind: Could Marshes Slow the Floods?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2005/whirlwind-brings-flood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As New Orleans sinks and the seas rise, hurricanes are getting worse. Does it make sense to start restoring marshes and barrier islands that dampen the hurricanes? Could wetlands moderate the next Katrina?]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Katrina: Another sign of global warming?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2005/hurricane-katrina-another-sign-of-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is global warming feeding hurricanes? Global warming has already raised sea levels. Is warming also making hurricanes like Katrina more intense? Some new evidence says yes.]]></description>
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		<title>Zoonotic Disease &#8212; Bugs Jump to People</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/zoonotic-disease-bugs-jump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Monkeypox, AIDS, SARS: Are more diseases jumping from animals to people, or is it just our imagination?]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Science</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2002/baseball-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Throw a curve ball. Evade the rainstorm. And don't get mouth cancer. It's all in an afternoon's ball game.]]></description>
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		<title>Ice in Antarctica</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2002/ice-in-antarctica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be thickening, which could reduce the rise in sea level caused by global warming.]]></description>
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