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Two Filmmakers Are Working to Hold the U.N. Responsible for Cholera in Haiti

The makers of the documentary "Baseball in the Time of Cholera" have taken their fight to Capitol Hill.

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Reconstruction Zone: Chronicling Haiti's Post-Quake Struggles

“Nobody faced what we have faced here in Haiti.”

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Thai College Students Design App to Help Rescue Disaster Survivors

A new student-designed mobile app could make finding disaster survivors much easier.

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Skate for Japan: The Latest Creative Relief Effort

An event in July will support relief efforts in Japan by auctioning off skate decks designed by San Francisco Bay Area artists and creative agencies.

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Schools Are Helping Devastated Japanese Communities Recover

Students say that getting back to something familiar—school—helps them deal with the stress of living in shelters and having lost loved ones.

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One Month After the Earthquake, Japan Hustles to Keep Students on Track

Two-thirds of schools in the ravaged northeastern coastal region are destroyed or damaged, but students will be heading back to class next week.

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Fukushima Now Level 7 Accident, But Is It Really As Bad As Chernobyl?

Fukushima has maxed out the nuclear rating scale, only the second accident to rate 7. So does that really mean that this event is as bad as Chernobyl?

Slideshow: America's Ten Riskiest Nuclear Reactors

The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions calculated the odds of an earthquake damaging the core of every reactor in the country. Here are the ten riskiest.

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Cascadia: The West Coast Fault Line That Is "Nine Months Pregnant"

The fault zone that produced the largest known earthquake in the Lower 48 is "nine months pregnant and overdue." This time line illustrates it.

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Interactive Map: The Real Seismic Threat to Our Nation's Nuclear Power Plants

This great interactive map from Climate Central lets you see the specific seismic threat to all 104 of the country's active nuclear reactors.

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Map: See Which Earthquake-Prone Areas Have the Most People

Check out this map that mashes up population density and seismic risk and put the global earthquake risk in perspective.

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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.

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.