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Widespread destruction in Tacloban after Super Typhoon Haiyan, with collapsed buildings, scattered debris, and damaged homes covered with tarps. drought Thick black and white smoke rises above a forest as flames burn near a road with cars evacuating during wildfire. Chernobyl disaster
Learn about the disastrous and deadly power of tornadoes
3D cross-sectional illustration of a hurricane over ocean, showing cloud bands and vertical structure of storm systems.
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Warm water fuels Hurricane Katrina. This image depicts a 3-day average of actual dea surface temperatures for the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, from August 25-27, 2005.
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Learn about the disastrous and deadly power of tornadoes
Tornadoes possess enormous destructive power.
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How do cyclones form?
Cyclones look like huge disks of clouds.
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Tacloban, Philippines: Super Typhoon Haiyan damage
Damage to the city of Tacloban, on the Philippine island of Leyte, from Super Typhoon...
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drought
A field of dried corn showing the effects of drought in Texas, August 2013.
Bob Nichols/USDA
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada: wildfire
Smoke rising from a wildfire raging outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 2016.
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Chernobyl disaster
The accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in...
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