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  • Lost man, 82, rescued from freezing woods
    An 82-year-old Pennsylvania man was found alive and conscious by rescuers Wednesday after getting lost in the woods of a state park and spending 32 hours braving snow squalls and freezing temperatures.

  • Storms flood, cut power in Australia

    A car is wedged between trees after being swept away by torrential rains in Brisbane, Australia, on Thursday. Two strong storms cut power to tens of thousands of homes and flooded streets along Australia's east coast Thursday, sweeping away one woman in her car amid the worst flooding in decades.




  • Dad drowns after saving sons in crash

    Emergency crews gather Tuesday at the pond where a father drowned saving his two young sons in Manchester, N.Y.A man whose car slid off a snowy road and into a 12-foot-deep pond saved the two sons he had been driving home but could not save himself, police said.




  • Early storms help jump start ski season

    A skier at Colorado's Arapahoe Basin catches some air on a downhill run on Monday. The resort opened up a handful of runs on October 15. Adult lift tickets are $49 at A-basin through December 12.It's beginning to look a lot like ski season. Thanks to a handful of early storms and legions of snowmaking guns, the ski scene is already picking up around the nation.




  • Drought won't stop rebuilding after fires

    With the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop, a firefighting helicopter flies through a smoke-filled sky in Montecito, Calif., on Nov. 14 as a wildfire destroyed dozens of homes there.Many of the Californians displaced by the recent wildfires are bent on rebuilding even as the drought conditions of recent years have intensified the wildfire risk.




  • U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings

    Warming temperatures can worsen droughts and China is among the countries already seeing reduced water resources. Here villagers in the town of Loudi dig through cracked soil in search of water for a well on Aug. 11, 2007.A major U.S. intelligence report coming out Thursday  is adding climate change to the "traditional" mix of factors expected to destabilize the world into the near future.




  • Experts warn of water shortages by 2080

    An Iraqi boy washes his face with water from a burst water pipe on the outskirts of the impoverished Baghdad district of Sadr City. Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.





Robyne Wilkerson
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