Federal science agencies like NASA and NOAA have been compiling data on Hurricane Sandy with the benefit of satellite imagery as well as ground observations. As the hurricane made landfall on the southern New Jersey coast, its outer reaches stretched to the Ohio Valley and into Canada, covering 1.8 million square miles ? double the size of Western Europe. [NASA]
Around 200 workers in an industrial area of eastern New Mexico, not far from El Paso, were exposed to an unknown substance that caused irritation that one described as ?like when you get chile on your skin.? [Associated Press]
The international trade in live plants has put Britain?s forests under severe threat from pests and diseases, the country?s forestry commission warns. ?In the last 10 years we have had as many new diseases as we had in the previous 40 or 50 years,? said Joan Webber, principal pathologist at the Forestry Commission?s research arm. [The Guardian]
The Russian government, which has long made known President Vladimir Putin?s love of tigers, says it will send a bill to Parliament next year to criminalize trafficking in endangered species or their body parts. [Moscow Times]
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