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On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was struck with the deadliest single twister in the US since 1947. Reaching EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (the highest given rating), the vortex hit with 200 mile-per-hour winds (about 328 km/hour) and left a trail of destruction in its wake. Tearing...

Since April 20th, when an explosion in an underwater drilling rig occurred, dramatic effects have taken place in the Gulf of Mexico due to the massive amounts of oil released in the water. An estimated 7,500 litres of crude oil a day have been pouring into the water since the...

Eyjafjallajökull. For those lucky enough to know how to say it, it's actually quite a frightening concept. Eyjafjallajökull. (Ay-ya-fya-tla-yo-kukh) is a volcano located in southern Iceland from which we should have expected such devastation. Eyjafjallajökull has erupted over and over again throughout recorded history, and it was only a matter...

What does a country do when its president dies? The eastern European country of Poland is finding out the hard way. On April 10th, 96 people, including the Polish president Lech Kaczynski, crashed in Western Russia while flying to Warsaw (Poland's capital) to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn...

It's that time of year again, where from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., households and businesses shut off all their non-essential lights to promote energy conservation and taking action on climate change. On Saturday, March 27, hundreds of millions of people will be participating in Earth Hour, the yearly event...

PepsiCo is planning on removing all full-calorie drinks from schools around the world by 2012, following successful programs in the US reducing childhood obesity. This follows the guidelines set by both PepsiCo and Coca-Cola to remove all sugary drinks from US schools in 2006. Earlier this month, Coca-Cola set a...

If a city in Canada was to be devastated by a natural disaster, Canadians would have the means to eventually recover from that tragedy. However, this is not the case in Haiti. Haiti is one of the world's poorest countries, and on January 12, their biggest earthquake in two centuries...

Since October 7th 2001, Canada has been at war. A combined NATO task force blasted their way into Afghanistan fighting the terrorist group known as the Taliban which had taken control of the country. The Taliban was ousted from power after quick but heavy fighting in the capital region. Taliban...

All around the world, people decided to turn off their lights between 8:30 and 9:30 pm on Saturday, March 28th, 2009, as a global effort to "vote" against global warming. Why, you ask? To show that one person can make a difference, not just on a national level, but on...