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Quake Hits Iran, Pakistan; Dozens Killed

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Weather.com - 4/16/13

People evacuate buildings after a major earthquake hit Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

TEHRAN, Iran -- A major earthquake flattened homes and offices on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border Tuesday, rattling buildings as far away as New Delhi and Dubai and killing dozens of people, including 34 in one Pakistani town.

The massive quake was the second in a week to hit Iran in less than a week, but it was not immediately clear how many people the trembler killed in Iran.

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Climate Scientists Struggle to Explain Warming Slowdown

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Weather.com - 4/16/13

Smoke is emitted from chimneys of a cement plant in Binzhou city, in eastern China's Shandong province in January. China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in a recent study that linked the burning of fossil fuels to the country's rise in its daily temperature spikes. AP Photo

OSLO (Reuters) -- Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Rat-Sized Snails Invade Florida

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Weather.com - 4/15/13, April Liston, Reuters

A giant African land snail is seen in this handout picture from the Florida Department of Agriculture.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.

More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade and 117,000 in total since the first snail was spotted by a homeowner in September 2011, said Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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Migrating Monarchs Face Hazardous Travel

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Accuweather.com - Vickie Frantz, 4/14/13


A tagged Monarch sits on a Milkweed plant at the Fannin Elementary School in Kansas before continuing on it's journey to Mexico. Photo by Craig Wilson

The Monarch butterflies migrating from Mexico to Canada will cross states that lack wildflowers and Milkweed due to wildfires, weed control and drought conditions.

This years swarm is feared to be the smallest since the winter of 2004-2005, according to learner.org. During the migration south, the butterflies were dealing with sparse areas with wildflowers due to drought and wildfires across many of the southern states. The nectar they collect from the flowers help fuel them for their journey to Mexico where they overwinter.

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