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Ashley Park and Amber Watson, both juniors at Spanish Fort High School in Alabama, sent me an email after reading, "We discover what’s floating in the South Pacific." They wanted to know how trash travels in the ocean and if recycling is really the answer. Since I’m not a plastic pollution expert, I turned to Marcus Eriksen, the co-founder of 5 Gyres, a non-profit studying garbage in the ocean, to provide some answers.

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It's a somber morning here at AccuWeather.com HQ while we report the news that over 230 people have been killed by yesterday's tornado outbreak, mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. This is the deadliest outbreak since I was born in 1974, and it's a real shame that it can happen in this time of modern technology. Here are maps of the tornado and funnel cloud reports yesterday:

By Verna Gates TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) - Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing more than 220 people as they flattened neighborhoods, flipped cars and toppled trees and power lines, officials said on Thursday. [More]

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After being fed a tainted nutritional supplement through an IV, nine people died and ten others sickened at six Alabama hospitals.

At six hospitals in Alabama, an avoidable bacterial infection got into the bloodstream of 19 patients, possibly causing the death of nine. Mark Strassmann reports on the state's new outbreak of so-called "superbugs."

Officials probe outbreak of bacterial infections in 6 Alabama hospitals, possibly linked to IV bags

Coal may be the most loathed energy source among sustainability advocates, but it isn't going anywhere, especially now that governments are investing billions in carbon capture and sequestration projects for coal plants. Any country with significant coal reserves and a government that pays little attention to safety and environmental hazards stands to profit handsomely.