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16/12/2010

2010 - year of disasters. Quentin Cooper asks how science helped, and how it learned new lessons.

2010 - year of disasters. Floods, wild fires, volcanoes, earthquakes, and a record breaking oil spill. Material World has time and again been reporting on some of the disasters that have struck over the year. And earth scientists gather at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco to review their data from each event, Quentin Cooper asks how science helped, and what the lessons are for the future.

Producer: Roland Pease.

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30 minutes

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Mon 20 Dec 2010 21:00
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