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A disease responsible for the deaths of millions of bats has spread in Illinois.The white-nose syndrome gets its name from a fungus that grows on affected…
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Scientists said today that the New Madrid fault zone in the nation's midsection is active and could spawn future large earthquakes. The journal Science…
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Scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey say it's likely it was an earthquake that shook Chicago's western suburbs after a blast at a quarry.USGS…
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U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski has asked for a federal investigation into a quarry blast this week in suburban Chicago. Lipinski has asked the U.S. Department of…
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The U.S. Geological Survey says the shaking with a measured magnitude 3.2 in northern Illinois was a blast and not an earthquake. USGS geophysicist Don…
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Midwest waterways are getting lots of attention this summer. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency have…