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    • Tropical Storm Hubert kills 36 in Madagascar (AP)
      AP - Madagascar's disaster officials say at least 36 people have died and more than 38,000 were made homeless by Tropical Storm Hubert.
    • Weather taskforce to warn Haiti of hurricanes (AFP)

      This 2008 NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Ike. Caribbean weather experts launched a task force Friday to provide Haiti storm forecasts amid fears the 2010 hurricane season could devastate the country's already fragile infrastructure.(AFP/NOAA/File/Ho)AFP - Caribbean weather experts launched a task force Friday to provide Haiti storm forecasts amid fears the 2010 hurricane season could devastate the country's already fragile infrastructure.


    • Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery (AP)
      AP - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found.
    • Ex-New Orleans officer pleads in shooting cover-up (AP)

      U.S. Attorney James Letten, left, speaks to the media outside the Federal Court building in New Orleans,Thursday, March 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to covering up the deadly shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina, with a judge calling the plot a "despicable" scheme that immeasurably compounded the storm's damage.


    • Ex-policeman pleads guilty in Katrina killing case (Reuters)
      Reuters - A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a U.S. immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting deaths of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
    • Hurricane season forecast: seven storms to reach land (The Christian Science Monitor)
      The Christian Science Monitor - America may have already had a “snowicane” this year, but now some weather forecasters are focusing on the real thing – you know, those monster storms with names like Donna or Andrew that pelt the coast with 100-mile-per-hour winds, massive amounts of rain, and tidal surges.
    • Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters (AFP)

      Residents search for survivors a day after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005. Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Graythen)AFP - Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.


    • Alternative Spring Breaks Combine Service, Learning (U.S. News & World Report)
      U.S. News & World Report - Instead of relaxing on white, sandy beaches this spring break, thousands of college students will travel around the globe to volunteer for a variety of social justice causes. Known as "alternative spring breaks," these are public-service-oriented trips, planned and led by students, that focus on volunteerism and education about social justice issues in the United States or overseas. From rebuilding homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina to tutoring students in a remote village in Ecuador, these trips can open students' eyes to issues both close to home and far away.
    • Power restored in much of storm-battered Northeast (AP)

      FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2010 file photo, crews work to restore electricity in Bow, N.H. Utility crews are working to restore power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses still in the dark Monday, March 1, in the Northeast after a winter storm last week.(AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, file)AP - Many of the more than 1 million Northeastern homes and businesses plunged into the dark by a storm were running on electricity Monday, three days after the hard-hitting combination of snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.


    • Europe storm death toll at 62; France hardest hit (AP)

      Partial view of the sea wall that protects the northern part of the Ile de Re island, near La Rochelle, western France, Monday March 1, 2010, the wall was broken by Sunday's deadly storm that hit most part of France. The storm, named Xynthia, was the worst in France since 1999 when 90 people died. Prime Minister Francois Fillon held an emergency cabinet meeting and afterward called the storm a 'national catastrophe.' (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Rescue workers in dinghies cruised flooded streets on France's Atlantic coast Monday, searching for people still trapped in their homes by storms that smashed through concrete sea walls and killed at least 62 people across Western Europe.


    • Death toll hits 53 as storms lash Europe (AFP)

      View taken in La Rochelle, western France, shows a van crushed by a tree. Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.(AFP/Xavier Leoty)AFP - Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.


    • Storm moves into France leaving three dead (AFP)

      View taken in La Rochelle, western France, shows a van crushed by a tree. Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.(AFP/Xavier Leoty)AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds moved north to the west coast of France on Sunday after lashing Spain and Portugal, killing at least three people and causing transport chaos.


    • Three killed as storm lashes Spain, Portugal and France (AFP)

      Waves break along the shore of A Guarda, northwestern Spain. A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed Spain, Portugal and France on Saturday, killing at least three people, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power and causing transport chaos.(AFP/Miguel Riopa)AFP - A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed Spain, Portugal and France on Saturday, killing at least three people, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power and causing transport chaos.


    • NH hotel fire fanned by strong wind destroys block (AP)

      RETRANSMITTING WITH ALTERNATE CROP - A firefighter sprays water on a smoldering building following a fire in Hampton, N.H., Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. An entire Hampton Beach block, including at least six businesses, were destroyed as strong winds fueled a fire originating at the Surf Motel in Hampton. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - A fire that started in an unoccupied oceanfront hotel was fanned by hurricane-force winds and spread to several nearby buildings, engulfing and destroying an entire block of businesses on a stretch of Hampton Beach popular with summer tourists. No injuries were reported.


    • Only plastic between Haiti homeless and storms (Reuters)

      A woman exits a tent that was erected over the remains of a house at Fort National neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 24, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Seasonal rains and hurricanes spell trouble for Haiti in the best of times, but with hundreds of thousands of people living in flimsy makeshift shelters after last month's earthquake, this year the dangers are much greater.


    • Number of storms may drop, but more could be intense, study says (The Christian Science Monitor)
      The Christian Science Monitor - The number of hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms globally is likely to either fall or remain flat over the course of the 21st century. But an increasing proportion of the storms are likely to hit the highest levels of intensity because of the projected effects of global warming, an international team of scientists concludes.
    • Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes (AP)

      FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2004 file photo, an oceanfront home damaged by Hurricane Charley is seen in Oak Island, N.C. Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger, but fewer, hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis, File)AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.


    • HUD: Redevelopment of razed public housing at risk (AP)
      AP - Nearly two years after the contentious bulldozing of large tracts of public housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a federal report now says that the planned redevelopment of a large portion of that land is in jeopardy.
    • Galveston fears post-Ike Census means lost funds (AP)

      FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2008, file photo a man walks past debris piled up on the seawall road after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, in Galveston, Texas. Galveston officials, worried millions could be lost if Census shows post-Ike population drop, had asked Census officials to include in the city's population count residents who have temporarily moved off the island since the hurricane. But Census officials say they can't make an exception for natural disasters. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)AP - Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.