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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Supertyphoons to Strike Japan Due to Global Warming


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Supertyphoon Sepat bears down on the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean on August 15, 2007.

Increasingly powerful storms will devastate countries in the western Pacific Ocean, including Japan, as rising temperatures add fuel to storms, scientists said in September 2009.

Photograph by NOAA/AP