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A plume of smoke rises from the Wallow Fire burning near Springerville, Ariz.

Throughout Alabama, the deafening sound of the April tornadoes has been replaced by the rumbling of trucks hauling debris, more than 4.3 million cubic yards of it in the last month.

To deal with the flooding in some south provinces, Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) on 7th June allocated 1000 quilts and 500 family health kit to southwest Guizhou Province, 580 family health kit and 600 boxes of disinfectant to Hunan Province. All of those relief goods were shipped from DP center in Hunan Province for supporting local Red Cross relief operation.

Nisaka Mieko gathers chives, which have been contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident. She says she may lose $25,000 in crops, and hopes to plant some of the seeds next year.

Following is a summary of key federal disaster aid programs that can be made available as needed and warranted under President Obama’s major disaster declaration issued for Minnesota.

Lightning over the Puyehue volcano, 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile, on Monday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to Minnesota a to supplement the state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes during the period of May 21-22, 2011.

Map of global differences, on average, between evaporation and precipitation, the main elements of the global water cycle. Eighty-six percent of global evaporation is from the ocean surface, and 78 percent of global precipitation falls back over the ocean. Changes in these patterns affect the salinity of the ocean surface. Scientists plan to use Aquarius salinity data to incorporate these processes into computer models used to improve predictions of future climate.

E. coli infection is usually transmitted through consumption of contaminated water or food