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A Picher, Oklahoma, man describes waiting an "eternity" as a tornado lifted his house with his family inside. They survived, but the twister killed seven.

May 12, 2008
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As plants bloom earlier due to rising temperatures, caribou are arriving at their calving grounds when the bounty is past its peak, leading to fewer births and a lower survival rate, researchers say.

May 12, 2008
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Poisonous chemicals trapped for decades in ice are now seeping into the polar ecosystem via glacial meltwater, researchers report.

May 12, 2008
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See a supercell light up the Texas sky, U.S. Marines braving a sandstorm in Afghanistan, the Olympic torch reach the top of Mount Everest, and more.

May 9, 2008
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Tens of thousands of pets and farm animals were trapped as their owners evacuated. Cattle are dying, and pets have no food, but a limited animal evacuation is in the works.

May 9, 2008
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Mass extinctions and other nightmare scenarios figure into one expert's speculations on what Earth would be like at 6°C (10.8°F) warmer.

May 09, 2008

Troops forced out the last holdouts after glowing rocks spewed from Chaitén. An expert warns that a catastrophic flow of toxic gas and ash could follow.

May 9, 2008
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A "perfect storm" of factors—from location to wind speed to poor preparation—have resulted in perhaps a hundred thousand deaths from Cyclone Nargis.

May 8, 2008
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The world's largest group of orangutans in Indonesia may face extinction by 2011 because of palm oil plantation expansion, which is destroying habitat, experts say.

May 8, 2008
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The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned to desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again.

May 8, 2008
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Great tits are timing their egg laying to coincide with an earlier emergence of caterpillars in England, a decades-long study has found.

May 8, 2008
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Thousands of horses, cows, and other livestock face a possibly toxic brew of deep ash and gases. And the region's all-important farms may be devastated for decades.

May 7, 2008

Bodies floated in floodwaters, and survivors tried to reach dry ground using blankets as sails, while a U.S. diplomat said up to a hundred thousand may have died.

May 7, 2008
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Eight Amur leopards—the world's rarest big cats—were recently photographed in far southeastern Russia, giving renewed hope to conservationists.

May 7, 2008
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A new "Greendex" survey tracking consumer spending habits also found that the residents of the U.S. and other industrialized nations are the most wasteful.

May 7, 2008

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