Think global warming will raise the oceans enough to submerge Cape Hatteras? Want to bet on it?
An online gambling service has started taking bets on global warming, including whether it can submerge some of the East Coast’s top vacation spots.
The odds that Virginia’s Cape Henry will be under water by 2015 — 200-to-1 at BetUs.com. [...]

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A freak summer hail storm left ice blanketed across large parts of Australia’s drought-hit capital Canberra on Wednesday, forcing some businesses and government departments to close due to storm and flood damage.
While thunder storms are common in Canberra in the last month of summer, the rare hail storm left the national capital resembling snow-bound cities [...]

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Indonesian authorities will drop hundreds of giant concrete balls into a fissure Friday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has inundated villages and factories, an official said. The hot, noxious mud — enough to fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools — has flowed from the hole each day for the last nine months, [...]

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Among the thousands of people frantically flapping in the snow Saturday in an attempt to set the record for the most snow angels ever made were parents, children, even snowplow drivers.
And then there was Pauline Jaeger — who on her 99th birthday, was making her very first angel.
“It’s fun,” Jaeger said. “I feel just like [...]

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A volunteer firefighter who was the first to arrive at the scene of a Shelton house fire used snow from the lawn to put out most of the flames. On Thursday afternoon, Dave VanWart, a firefighter with the Echo Hose Hook and Ladder Company, was the first firefighter to respond to a blaze that broke [...]

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Snow fell on Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, for the first time in 63 years on Wednesday, stirring excitement and curiosity among residents and their children.
“I have never seen it snow in Kathmandu in all my life,” said 45-year-old housewife Manju Shrestha, playing in the snow with her young children.
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