disasters
North Dakota pipeline spews saltwater into Native American reservation
July 11, 2014Lake Sakakawea, a reservoir of the Missouri River, provides drinking water to several communities on the Fort Berthold reservation including the Manda, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes.
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Catastrophic destruction from floods in Balkans, landmines swept away
May 21, 2014Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region's 1990s war.
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California wildfires blaze on, striking hard and early
May 16, 2014A heat wave and tinder-dry brush have created a dynamic, dangerous situation with the most menacing brushfires in nearly two decades.
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The Lakota vow to die rather than let the KXL pipeline pass
May 15, 2014The native nations of the Dakotas have already seen the deadly effects of the "pipelines of death" on the native communities of western Canada.
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Mine disasters in W.Va., Turkey tied to corporate negligence
May 15, 2014Two mineworkers were killed late Monday after being trapped in a collapse in a coal mine in Wharton, W.Va., operated by the Patriot Coal Company.
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