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A house saved from flood waters

Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Check out this crazy photo of a house near the Mississippi River being saved from rising flood waters because of a fantastic make-shift levee.

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New video of Japanese tsunami shows people nearly being swept away

From atop a hill at a local school, people watch and scream in terror as tsunami flood waters come crashing into the town below sweeping everything away in its path. People can be seen running for their lives as water … Continue reading

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Video of people fleeing tsunami flood waters in Japan

Still haven’t fully realized how dire the situation was when the tsunami hit Japan 2 weeks ago? Check out this video of several people barely escaping the rising waters. On top of that, watch as several other people get trapped … Continue reading

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Sun Come Up: a documentary about The Carterets Islands and climate change

In one of the first documentaries about environmental refugees, this film by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger focuses on the people of the Carterets Islands who are in the process of finding new homes at higher grounds because of rising … Continue reading

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A house getting swallowed by rising waters in Georgia

This photo taken by John Bazemore for the Associated Press shows a house nearly consumed by flood waters in Mableton, Georgia on Tuesday (September 22, 2009). As posted earlier, parts of Georgia have experienced tremendous rainfall which has caused massive … Continue reading

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The Hidden Cost of War (the three trillion dollar war)

GOOD has released a fantastic graphical video detailing the rising costs of war and military spending by the United States. The video starts off by saying that in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated that a war with Iraq would cost $60 … Continue reading

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