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Infographic: With Donations, Corporations Love Japan, Haiti Not as Much

Compared to Haiti, corporations are rushing to donate to Japan, where they have more colleagues and customers. The American people not so much.

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Ancient People Are Still Awesome: Centuries-Old Japanese Tsunami Warning Markers Saved Lives

In Aneyoshi, the wisdom of their ancestors saved the lives of the tiny village's inhabitants. Other towns ignored these warnings and weren't so lucky.

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Feast Your Eyes: Radioactive Wasabi

Japanese authorities update the list of contaminated foods while the FDA tests produce at U.S. ports.

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Help Students Fold One Million Origami Cranes and Raise $1 Million for Japan

Here's how to help a grassroots student effort to fold one million paper cranes and raise $1,000,000 for Japanese relief efforts.

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An English Teacher is First Known American Casualty in Japan

A 24-year-old English teacher is the first known American casualty of the tsunami.

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See This Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Days Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Short Days

Check out these amazing photos of a totally devastated stretch of Japanese highway that was rebuilt in three short days.

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Eating Inside the Eden of Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone

Is it safe to eat the fruits and berries growing on land contaminated 25 years ago by a nuclear disaster? Looking forward by looking back.

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Donor Aid to Japan Not Even Close to Haiti and Katrina

Americans gave a lot more and a lot faster to Katrina and Haiti than to Japan. American corporations? Well that's a different story.

Slideshow: Buy These Things and Support Relief Efforts in Japan

We know you don't need any material goods as incentive to give, but here are some good people offering proceeds from sales to relief efforts in Japan.

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Quotatious: Rush Limbaugh Blames Japan's Environmental Consciousness for the Earthquake

Rush Limbaugh says that "Gaia" was trying to tell Japanese environmentalists something with the earthquake and tsunami.

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How You Can Really Help After a Disaster: Get Yourself Prepared

Even after witnessing the horrific natural disasters of the past week, most of us aren't prepared for one. Why not get started this weekend?

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Heroes: Teacher Saves 42 Students from Tsunami

Once the tsunami warnings sounded, Robert Bailey knew he only had eight minutes to save his student's lives.

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Map: See Japan Get Battered By 572 Earthquakes in Eight Days

Watch this stunning sequence of the hundreds of aftershocks to the massive 9.0 earthquake that has sent Japan reeling.

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Video: Helicopters Dump Water On Fukushima Reactors

Watch as helicopters drop tons of water on the Fukushima reactors in a desperate attempt to cool the plant and avoid a meltdown.

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A Visual Assessment of Damage at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Look at these satellite images of the Fukushima nuclear reactors before and after the earthquake, tsunami, and explosions.

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Watch NOAA's Animation of the Tsunami Spreading Across the Pacific

Watch a captivating projection of how the tsunami would travel across the Pacific.