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added 2007 Sun May 20 4:46:37 by TechnologyExpert
Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere. Primitive Stone Age cultures were destroyed and populations of mammoths and other large land animals, such as the mastodon, were wiped out.
added 2007 Fri May 11 14:09:39 by STONERS
Sen. Mary Landrieu D-La., chairwoman of the Disaster Recovery Subcommittee, plans to hold hearings this summer to determine where the disaster relief system broke down and what the best course for the future will be.
added 2007 Sun May 6 12:22:32 by Eudiso
As many as nine foreign peacekeepers, including up to eight French soldiers, were killed Sunday when a French plane attached to the Sinai's multinational peacekeeping force crashed in a remote, mountainous area of the desert, the force's spokesman said.
added 2007 Sat Apr 28 21:55:44 by tehranchik
When Deborah Rodriguez, a Michigan mother of two, visited Afghanistan in 2001 as a part of a disaster-relief tour arranged by a Christian humanitarian group, she wondered what she had to offer the citizens of a country who had weathered five long years of Taliban control.
added 2007 Thu Mar 15 12:04:00 by Captain_B
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added 2007 Mon Mar 5 17:02:38 by Neophile
The United Nations, in partnership with UK developer Playerthree, have announced Stop Disaster Game, a new web-playable game aimed at teaching children how to 'respond to and mitigate disasters.'
added 2007 Fri Feb 23 6:53:45 by capn_caveman
Video taken of the city of Prypiat. The city was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.
added 2007 Tue Feb 20 11:05:38 by Aidenag
A powerful earthquake in northeastern Indonesia triggered a tsunami warning Tuesday and caused panicked residents to flee shaking buildings, officials and media reports said. The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the temblor's magnitude at 6.9, but later revised it to 6.5.
added 2007 Tue Feb 13 20:41:57 by unknown user
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added 2007 Fri Feb 2 8:49:23 by unknown user
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added 2007 Tue Jan 30 2:30:14 by WV_Tilley
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added 2007 Sat Jan 27 4:10:26 by catstevens
The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up.
added 2007 Wed Jan 17 16:24:06 by Karina
Hundreds of people hunkered down in emergency shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states.
added 2007 Thu Jan 11 7:49:45 by Bkumm
Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils Tower in Wyoming, will pack the ener
added 2007 Sun Jan 7 16:10:09 by vidsnice
"This was my worst birthday EVER and thanks to my immmature brother its caught on tape!!! But it's NOT my fault."
added 2006 Mon Dec 25 7:00:00 by aarongustafson
The length to which the powers that be have gone to cover up this story are amazing.
added 2006 Fri Aug 11 8:50:57 by free
At least 110 people were killed after Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit China in five decades, slammed into the southeast coast Thursday, resulting in the evacuation of more than 1.3 million people, state media reported.
added 2006 Thu Aug 3 16:22:49 by Sheyna
As the 2006 hurricane season approaches, here's what you need to do now to protect your home and finances.