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Part One Geological Disasters

Unit One Earthquakes

Text A Squeezing Water from Rock

Text B Can We Save California?

Text C Earthquakes Shake Northern Italy

Unit Two Mudslides and Landslides

Text A Hundreds Killed in Rio de Janeiro Mudslides

Text B When Land Slides

Text C Papua New Guinea: Dozens Dead and Missing in Landslide

Unit Three Tsunamis

Text A Going Vertical: Fleeing Tsunamis by Moving up, Not out

Text B Tsunami Wreaks Mental Health Havoc

Text C Indonesia: Inadequate Relief Endangers Disaster Victims

Unit Four Volcano Eruptions

Text A Deepest Explosive Eruption on Sea Floor: Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason Images Discovery

Text B Volcanic Ash Cloud Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Stranded in Europe

Text C Could a Changing Climate Set off Volcanoes and Quakes?

Part Two Meteorological Disasters

Unit One Floods

Text A Queensland Crisis Points to Lack of Flood Mitigation and Basic Infrastructure

Text B More Deaths As a "Wall of Water" Engulfs Queensland Towns

Text C Pakistan's Despair: Through Hell and High Water

Unit Two Hurricanes

Text A Hurricane Isaac Pounds Gulf Coast

Text B New Orleans Braces for Gustav

Text C Special Report on the Galveston Hurricane

Unit Three Tornadoes

Text A Nighttime Tornadoes are Worst Nightmare: Twisters

That Occur from Midnight to Dawn are 2.5 Times More Likely to Kill

Text B Is Climate Change Causing an Upsurge in US Tornadoes?

Text C Tri-State Tornado: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, March 1925

Unit Four Snow and Ice

Text A Mounting Anger over Sydney Hailstorm Disaster

Text B China on Ice

Text C East Coast Blizzard Lays Bare Social Crisis of US Cities

Part Three Biological Disasters

Unit One Pest Disaster

Text A The Perfect Swarm: Locusts Threaten Eastern Australia

Text B The Beaver: Destructive Pest or Climate Saviour?

Text C Cricket Swarm Brings Plague to State-s North-Insects

Keep Finding Ways to Thwart Efforts to Eradicate Them

Unit Two Viruses

Text A HIV/AIDS Danger Increasing in the West

Text B EU States Downplay Risk as Bird Flu Spreads Toward Western Europe.

Text C US West Nile Virus Cases Double in One Week

Part Four Events of Public Security

Unit One Industrial Disasters

Text A Deathin the Darkness

Text B China- s Toxic Shock

Text C After Fukushima: Massive Global Expansion of Nuclear Industry Under Way

Unit Two Traffic Accidents

Text A What Brought Down Air France Flight 447?

Text B Australia: Fatal Train Accident Highlights Infrastructure Decay

Text C Mean Streets

Unit Three Environmental Disasters

Text A Severe Dust Storm Hits Australian Coastal Cities

Text B Pollution Lingers at Old Missile Sites

Text C Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Public Health

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