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 Key to Exercises Glossary
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