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    1. Andes Glaciers Vanishing Rapidly, Study Finds
    2. In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, a man walks past destroyed homes on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, New York. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha
    3. This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows superstorm Sandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service said a foot and more of
    4. In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo, corn plants weakened by the drought lie on the ground after being knocked over by rain in Bennington, Neb. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qat
    5. In this July 26, 2012 file photo, dead fish float in a drying pond near Rock Port, Mo. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss ways slowing climate cha
    6. In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, Jerry Johnson of Ashland uses his antique 57 Ford tractor to mow vegetation around his drying pond in Ashland, Neb. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are m
    7. The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies dropped by parachute in the Arctic Ocean
    8. Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Breaks 30-Year Record
    9. Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell
    10. GREENPEACE CREWMEMBERS INSPECT THE ICE IN ANTARCTICA
    11. This image made available by NASA shows the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, at center in white, and the 1979 to 2000 average extent for the day shown, with the yellow
    12. NASA handouts
    13. In this July 19, 2011 file photo, pools of melted ice form atop Jakobshavn Glacier, near the edge of the vast Greenland ice sheet. Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly fast
    14. This Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo shows Serbian farmer Radovan Krstic looking at the poor quality corn harvested from his field in the village of Trstenica, some 40 kilometers west of Belgrade, Ser
    15. Dried sunflowers are seen in a field near the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 After the harshest winter in decades, the Balkans in the southeast of Europe is now facing its hottest su
    16. In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. A combination of the long periods
    17. In this Feb. 5, 2012 file photo, people walk in the South Chagrin Reservation Metropark on a sunny and mild afternoon in Bentleyville, Ohio. A new poll shows Americans' belief in global warming is
    18. This Aug. 28, 2011 file photo shows a bicyclist making his way past a stranded taxi on a flooded New York City Street as Tropical Storm Irene passes through the city. Global warming-fueled sea level r
    19. In this July 26, 2011 file photo, a Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Green
    20. In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, pedestrians use an elevated makeshift walkway to avoid the floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floo
    21. In this Jan. 20, 2010 file photo, waves pound a wall near buildings in Pacifica, Calif., during a rain storm. A new federal report gives the West Coast its best look yet at what to expect from rising
    22. This Nov. 24, 2007 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows an aerial view of shows temporary shelters and damage to a village and infrastructure following Cyclone Sidr, which swept into southern B
    23. In this Jan. 16, 2011 file photo, an aerial view shows a neighborhood destroyed by landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil. From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by w
    24. In this Jan. 1, 2012 file photo, firefighters work in Torres del Paine National Park in Torres del Paine, Chile. From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfire
    25. In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, a woman stands in a flooded disco in Juanchito, Colombia. From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfires, floods and droughts
    26. This Sept. 8, 2012 photo shows dead fish along the Salton Sea shoreline in Southern California. The South Coast Air Quality Management District posted an update in which it acknowledged the possibilit
    27. In this May 21, 2011 file photo, a farm sits under floodwaters in Hato Grande on the northern outskirts of Bogota, Colombia.From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently b
    28. In this Jan. 13, 2011 file photo, a youth uses a makeshift raft to cross a flooded street in the Vila Itaim neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil. From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been
    29. In this Dec. 1, 2011 file photo, a cow tries to eat from a dried out cactus on a field near the city of Torreon, Mexico. Mexico is seeing the worst drought since 1941, when the country began recordin
    30. In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, elephant walk through the Kruger National Park feeding of trees. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of wild life in South Africa, which hosts tal
    31. In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, cows lie dead on Hilda Schneider
    32. in this photo taken Wednesday, June 2, 2010 two African penguins bask in the sun at the South African Foundation for the conservation of Coastal Birds care center in Cape Town, South Africa. Because o
    33. In this Aug. 30, 2005 file photo, the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans is seen in this aerial view, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, sits surrounded by floodwaters. Extreme storms, droughts
    34. In this Oct. 12, 2005 file photo, a drought affects the water levels of Anama Lake along the Amazon River, 168 kilometers from Manaus, Brazil. In 2005, the water level of the Amazon dropped by severa

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