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Will Europe keep on fracking?

April 22, 2013 06:01
BRUSSELS — Shale gas riches tempt cash-strapped continent.

What caused deadly Spanish earthquake? Scientists think deep wells could be to blame

October 22, 2012 07:38
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Can human intervention cause earthquakes? A group of Canadian scientists suspect that the deadly May 2011 Lorca earthquake was at least in part caused by the intrusion of a very deep well—conjuring up worrisome questions about human culpability in "natural" disasters.

5 fracking facts that are beyond question

Rob Wile, Business InsiderJuly 23, 2012 16:06
The debate over the safety of fracking reached a new, bizarre dimension last night, when the AP published a story with the headline, "Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science."
November 3, 2011 05:20
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Europe: News round-up

While Greek crisis rumbles here's news on earthquakes in England, firebombs in Paris, and Silvio Berlusconi's next career.
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A man shows the French satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo," featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, following a petrol bomb attack on the magazine's offices on November 2, 2011 in Paris, France. (Marc Piasecki/AFP/Getty Images)

There's more to going on in Europe than the renewed Greek crisis. Here's a round-up

Charlie Hebdo ... feel better now?

The offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris were firebombed yesterday. The weekly published an edition "guest edited by Muhammad" to mock the victory of the moderate Islamist An-Nadha party in Tunisia's elections two weeks ago. It also changed its name from Charlie to Sharia Hebdo (the "ch" is pronounced sh in French so the pun works.) Ho-Ho-ho

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