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(CNN) — Wiping tears from his cheeks, a man who survived avalanches that killed eight snowmobilers in western Canada said Wednesday that he and two others tried to save their friends but eventually left the mountain because of the threat of more slides.
Jeffrey Adams says he freed himself and helped free two others before making a “gut-wrenching” decision to leave.

Jeffrey Adams says he freed himself and helped free two others before making a “gut-wrenching” decision to leave.

Jeffrey Adams, flanked by his fiancée, said he and the two other survivors “did everything we could to try to save” the eight Sunday.

“They died doing what they loved. … I’m truly sorry to the families that we couldn’t find them,” Adams said.

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin and her boyfriend Levi Johnston are proud new parents of a baby boy, according to People.

His name is Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, says Colleen Jones, Bristol’s grandmother’s sister.

“We think it’s wonderful,” said Jones, the sister of Bristol’s grandmother Sally Heath. “The baby is fine and Bristol is doing well. Everyone is excited.”

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(CNN) — The bodies of six of eight snowmobilers missing after avalanches in southeastern British Columbia have been found, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday.
Authorities found six bodies a day after avalanches in British Columbia, Canada.

Authorities found six bodies a day after avalanches in British Columbia, Canada.

Searchers will continue to look for the other two snowmobilers believed trapped in Sunday’s pair of avalanches near Fernie, British Columbia, Constable Louis Saule said.

All eight men — and three others who escaped — faced two avalanches Sunday afternoon about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) east of Fernie, a town in the Canadian Rockies about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest of Calgary, Alberta

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Full Story At VIDEO: Iceland Puffin Threatened

December 5, 2008—In Iceland’s remote Westman Islands, warming weather is threatening a beloved mascot: the Atlantic puffin.

Video by Public Television’s Wild Chronicles, from National Geographic Mission Programs

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CBS/AP) Nine people are missing and feared dead in the crash of a helicopter that was carrying firefighters over a Northern California forest, officials said Wednesday.

The helicopter was carrying 11 firefighters and two crew members when it went down Tuesday night in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Four people were taken to hospitals with severe burns.

Two of the survivors were in critical condition at the University of California Medical Center in Sacramento, Forest Service spokesman Mike Odle said Wednesday, according to CBS station KPIX. The other two survivors were in serious condition at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, he said.

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A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.
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A chunk of ice is shown drifting after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast… Expand
A chunk of ice is shown drifting after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north on Sunday July 27, 2008. The sheet is the biggest piece shed by one of Canada’s six ice shelves since the Ayles shelf broke loose in 2005 from the coast of Ellesmere, about 500 miles from the North Pole. Collapse
(Sam Soja, The Canadian Press/AP Photo)
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Derek Mueller, a research at Trent University, was careful not to blame global warming, but said it the event was consistent with the theory that the current Arctic climate isn’t rebuilding ice sheets.

“We’re in a different climate now,” he said. “It’s not conducive to regrowing them. It’s a one-way process.”

Mueller said the sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north. He said a crack in the shelf was first spotted in 2002 and a survey this spring found a network of fissures.

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SANDY HOOK, N.J. (AP) - July 27, 2008 (WPVI) — Severe weather turned deadly in New Jersey on Sunday, as lightning strikes killed one man and injured four other people in separate incidents.

The lightning was contained in a series of strong, fast-moving thunderstorms that roared through the region, socking the state with heavy rains and damaging winds and dropping nickel-sized hail in Camden, Cape May, Gloucester and Monmouth counties. The severe weather also caused traffic delays and moderate to major flooding in many areas, and it forced a premature end to horse racing at Monmouth Park in Oceanport.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tropical Storm Cristobal skirted the North Carolina coast Sunday, dumping heavy rain and churning up rough surf, but so far sparing the seaboard of any severe weather.

The storm was forecast to head away from the Southeast coast Monday, a prospect that pleased a fishing captain standing on a dock at Ocracoke, an island south of Cape Hatteras.

“Let’s get it over with so we can go fishing,” said Capt. David Nagel, who has operated the “Drum Stick” charter boat for 31 years. “Nobody’s out. Everybody’s tied up.”

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