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Deadly Flooding Kills Dozens in Argentina

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Weather.com - 4/03/13, AP

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A car shows signs of having spent time under water following floods in the neighborhood of Nunez in Buenos Aires.

LA PLATA, Argentina— At least 46 people were killed by flooding overnight in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, the governor said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll from days of torrential rains to at least 52 and leaving large stretches of the provincial capital under water.

Gov. Daniel Scioli said many people drowned after trying to take shelter in their cars in Tolosa, an area of the provincial capital of La Plata. Heavy rains had killed at least six people in the nation's capital of Buenos Aires the day before.

Black Hole Wakes Up, Eats Planet

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Weather.com - 4/03/13, Agence France Presse

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European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite project reveals a black hole that had been slumbering for years chomping on a giant, low-mass object that had come too close.

Astrophysicists have witnessed the rare event of a black hole awakening from its slumber to snack on a planet-sized object in a galaxy 47 million light years away, the University of Geneva said Tuesday.

The observation made using the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite project, revealed a black hole that had been slumbering for years chomping on a giant, low-mass object that had come too close.

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Sheep Struggle to Survive Freezing Conditions (PHOTOS)

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Weather.com - 4/02/13, Camille Mann, Edecio Martinez

Sheep gather for their morning feed at Bleathgill Farm in following heavy snow on March 27, 2013, near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England. (Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Across the UK, farmers are struggling to save their livestock after freezing temperatures and heavy snow have left thousands of cattle and sheep stuck in the fields with no food and fresh water.

James Evans, a sheep farmer in Bishops Castle, England, told BBC News that newborn lambs are being born in freezing temperatures. He expects to lose about 4 to 5 percent of the 1,500 newborns.

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Signs the Gulf Is Sick

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Weather.com - 4/02/13, AP

A new National Wildlife Federation report says dolphins and sea turtles are dying at an alarming rate. Mario Tama/Getty Images

NEW ORLEANS — Continuing deaths of dolphins and sea turtles are a sign that the Gulf of Mexico is still feeling effects from the 2010 spill that spewed 200 million gallons of oil from a well a mile below the surface, a prominent environmental group said Tuesday.

The deaths — especially in dolphins, which are at the top of the food chain — are "a strong indication that there is something amiss with the Gulf ecosystem," said National Wildlife Federation senior scientist Doug Inkley.

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Hail Storm Pelts Texas Town

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Weather.com - 4/03/13, Becky KellogHitchcock, Tex.

Windows were blown out at homes and business in Hitchcock, Tex. in the early morning hours of Wed., April 3 after massive hail pelted the area. (Courtesy: Mark Boyle/KPRC)

Softball-sized hail rained down on a community in Texas in the early morning hours of Wed., April 3 leaving significant damage in its wake.  The hail shattered windows in buildings and cars in Hitchcock, Tex.

The Hitchcock, Texas Police Dept. says 7 of its 11 police cars were seriously damaged by the hail.  Several trailer parks also sustained heavy damaged as well as a church and fire station.

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More Than a Million Dead from Pollution in China

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Weather.com - 4/02/13, Sean Breslin

A masked Chinese man walks past a woman wrapping her head with a scarf on a street as the capital city is hit by polluted air and a sandstorm in Beijing, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

We've seen the pictures of choking smog and pollution in China, but it might be far worse -- and far more deadly -- than originally thought.

According to a story from the New York Times, 1.2 million premature deaths occurred in 2010 alone from Chinese pollution, accounting for 40 percent of global pollution deaths. The report goes on to project that by the year 2050, dirty air will kill 3.6 million people per year, mostly in China and India, which would surpass dirty water and lack of sanitation as the biggest environmental killer.

Slim Chance of Life after Mudslide Buries Miners

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Weather.com - 4/01/13, APTibet Landslide Traps 83

Rescue workers conduct search and rescue work at the site where a large-scale landslide hit a mining area in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on March 30. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Purbu Zhaxi)

BEIJING — Searchers were continuing to look for miners buried when a landslide swept through a gold mine in an extensively cleared area of Tibet, but authorities said chances were slim any survivors would be found. Twenty-one bodies have been recovered from the mudslide that buried 83 workers in piles of earth up to 30 meters deep.

The landslide Friday has spotlighted the extensive mining China has encouraged in the mountainous region and questions have been raised about whether the activities have destroyed Tibet's ecosystem.

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Ever-Bigger Algae Blooms on Lake Erie: Report

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Weather.com - 4/01/13, John Flesher

This Oct. 5, 2011 satellite photo from a NASA website shows algae blooms swirling on Lake Erie. A study released April 1 said the warming climate and modern farming practices are creating ideal conditions for gigantic algae formations on Lake Erie. AP Photo/NASA

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during the summer and fall of 2011. 

It sucked oxygen from the water, clogged boat motors and washed ashore in rotting masses that turned beachgoers' stomachs.

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Green Meteorite May Be From Mercury, a First

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Weather.com - 4/01/13, Miriam Kramer


This green meteorite that landed in Morocco in 2012 could be from Mercury. Stefan Ralew/sr-meteorites.de

 

Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury.

The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, who unveiled the new findings this month at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

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How a Storm Became Big Enough to Span the Atlantic

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Weather.com - 3/31/13, Douglas Main, livescience.com

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There is currently a massive storm churning over the Atlantic that spans the entire ocean basin, stretching all the way from Canada to Europe, and from Greenland to the Caribbean.

It's the same weather system that brought a massive spring blizzard to much of the United States and Canada earlier this week (on Tuesday (March 26), 44 of 50 states had some snow on the ground), and which has now ballooned in size, according to Jason Samenow, chief meteorologist with the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.

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