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Forest fires have devastated the town of Slave Lake, Alberta, forcing officials to evacuate most of the 10,000 residents. Take a look at the watering down of wildfires at Slave Lake:

The Japanese government will issue a new set of work ethics on Tuesday to bring the damaged Fukushima power plant under control by January, said reports

The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a flood warning for Kennebec River at Skowhegan affecting Somerset County.

Residents near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been moved further away from the facility to evacuation centers, reports said.

A ten-ton steel floodgate on River Mississippi at Morganza was opened, the first such eventuality in four decades, in a desperate effort to drain the swelling waters of the river.

A contract worker, 60, died after a fall at the facility’s waste disposal building, the operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant said.

The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project (NEEMO) sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live in Aquarius underwater laboratory for up to three weeks for studying human survival in preparation for future space exploration.

Twenty five years ago, on May 13, 1986, Robert Pattinson was born in London England.

The damaged Fukushima power plant reported fresh problems of water leak from a reactor vessel and spilling of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station said on Wednesday that it has sealed a fresh leak of radioactive water at the plant that it suspected was seeping into the ocean.

Early this morning, the Mississippi River crested at 47.79 feet in Memphis, Tennessee, 13.79 feet higher than flood stage and the second highest level on record.

Water levels in the dangerously surging Mississippi River in the Memphis area are peaking towards near-historic levels leading to some residents abandoning their homes and moving to safer locations.

NASA's Cassini probe, in orbit around Saturn, may have discovered evidence for a liquid ocean under the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Syrian activists are planning to observe Friday as the day of protests similar to the day that was observed in Egypt two months ago.

On Thursday, April 29, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan:

On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan:

The natural gas industry should support common sense regulation to ease public worries about potential water contamination from hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice vital to the U.S. shale gas boom, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said on Tuesday.

Earth Day is the annual celebration of the environment and a time to assess the work still needed to protect the natural gifts of our planet. It affirms that environmental awareness is part of our consciousness and that the idea of protecting the environment has moved into the mainstream.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the radioactive contamination in the water that leaked into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was more than 20,000 times the allowable annual limits.

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan

Critical infrastructure companies in industries such as energy, water and gas are not smartening up to the increasing number of cyber attacks.