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Atlanta Floods Extremely Rare

by mokosam on November 10, 2009

The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have reviewed the numbers and they are stunning.
"At some sites, the annual chance of a flood of this magnitude was so significantly less than 1 in 500 that, [...]

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A new population of the extremely rare Tonkin snub-nosed monkey, so-called because of its unusual and distinctive up-turned nose, has recently been discovered in a remote forested area of northern Vietnam. The exciting finding made by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) provides new hope for the monkey`s future.
Believed to be extinct until the late 1980s, [...]

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