VOLCANO - Mount Saint Helens remains North America's most active volcano. MONITORING EARTH QUAKES - A five-hour climb to a crater-s rim crosses sensors monitoring the mountain's many earthquakes. QUAKE WARNING - Japan's meteorological agency launched an earthquake warning system designed to provide enough warning for utilities to slow down power plants and for speeding trains to brake before the shaking begins. QUAKE EXERCISE - In China, 200 rescue teams and 17 teams from the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group held a joint earthquake-rescue exercise. PRESERVING ROCK ART - In Tasmania, Australia, the government funded a three dimensional laser scanner to record images at two Aboriginal rock art sites. OLDEST CAVES - A series of limestone caves west of Sydney, Australia, were pronounced to be the oldest caves in the world, dating back 340 million years. FLOOD DEFENSE - The Netherlands has set up organizations called "water boards" with the sole purpose of defending the country against surging seas and flooding rivers. OLDEST FOSSIL - Researchers in Australia say an ancient rock formation found in the Pibara region contains the earliest fossil evidence of life on earth. ANCIENT FISH - Researchers found fossils in a sandstone quarry on the border between England and Wales. They are mining a rich seam of fossils from a riverbed dating back 400-million years. EVEREST MEDICAL LABORATORY - Visitors to the Science Museum in London step into the Extreme Everest tent which will house on Mount Everest the world's highest medical laboratory. RECLAIMING THE DESERT - Farmers and the rural development sector of the World Bank in Beijing, are helping each other by reducing the amount of shifting sands in China's two largest deserts by planting shrubs and laying straw to preserve shifting sands.
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