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AFP/Getty Images - Thu Sep 8, 8:37 PM ET
US Navy sailor Douglas Winslow attempts to coax holdout Rita Gillett, 63, to leave her home in the heavily damaged ninth ward in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gillett and her family intend to stay at their home despite orders to evacuate. Authorities have said they are planning forcible evacuations of residents who refuse to leave.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama) -
AFP - Thu Sep 8, 8:37 PM ET
Emergency personnel from Baltimore, Maryland go door-to-door searching mobile homes in Chalmette, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rescuers in New Orleans struggled to persuade diehard Hurricane Katrina survivors to abandon the city, as a political battle intensified over a probe into the federal relief effort.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Thu Sep 8, 8:37 PM ET
Flood waters submerge an intersection in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rescuers in New Orleans struggled to persuade diehard Hurricane Katrina survivors to abandon the city, as a political battle intensified over a probe into the federal relief effort.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 8,10:18 PM ET
A loon chick is held while researchers from the Biodiversity Research Institute draw a blood sample, weigh it and put identification bands on its leg, at Rangeley Lake in Rangeley, Maine, August 22, 2005. Researchers test the blood sample to monitor mercury levels in the lake caused by fallout of pollution from the mid-western United States. Picture taken August 22, 2005. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 8,10:18 PM ET
A general view of Rangeley Lake, which is being monitored for mercury levels, in Rangeley, Maine August 23, 2005. Researchers from the Biodiversity Research Institute in Gorham, Maine, take blood samples from loons to monitor mercury levels in the lake caused by fallout of pollution from the mid-western United States. Picture taken August 23, 2005. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) -
AFP/Getty Images/File - Fri Sep 9, 6:14 AM ET
A drum seismograph. An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale has struck off the east coast of Papua New Guinea.(AFP/Getty Images/File) -
AFP - Fri Sep 9, 6:41 AM ET
An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale struck off the east coast of Papua New Guinea.(AFP) -
AFP/JIJI Press - Fri Sep 9, 7:30 AM ET
Japanese rescue workers search for survivors after Typhoon Nabi triggered a landslide in Siba. A new typhoon was heading toward Japan's southern island of Okinawa, a day after Nabi dissipated after battering the country for a week and leaving 32 dead or missing.(AFP/JIJI Press) -
AFP/Getty Images - Fri Sep 9, 7:40 AM ET
Hunter Harris carries ice delivered by members of the Ohio National Guard, based at Rickenbacker Air Guard Base in Columbus, in Gulfport, Mississippi. Rescue workers braced for a showdown with diehard Hurricane Katrina survivors refusing to evacuate New Orleans, as the relief effort received a massive injection of federal funds.(AFP/Getty Images/Marianne Todd) -
Reuters - Fri Sep 9, 8:44 AM ET
Georgia search and rescue workers look for survivors in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Chalmette, a suburb of New Orleans, September 8, 2005. Hurricane Katrina has spurred debate about global warming worldwide with some environmentalists sniping at President George W. Bush for pulling out of the main U.N. plan for braking climate change. Experts agree it is impossible to say any one storm is caused by rising temperatures. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) -
AFP - Fri Sep 9, 8:50 AM ET
Emergency personel use inflatable boats during search and rescue operations in Chalmette, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Authorities have braced for a showdown, with New Orleans residents refusing to leave the deluged city as Hurricane Katrina's political and economic impact deepened.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP/Graphic - Fri Sep 9, 8:50 AM ET
Graphic illustrating the high risk of pollution to water supplies in the New Orleans region.(AFP/Graphic) -
AFP/Pool - Fri Sep 9, 8:50 AM ET
Officials in protective suits load a recovered body as a dog stands on a corner after floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina receeded revealing a layer of mud in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. Authorities have braced for a showdown, with New Orleans residents refusing to leave the deluged city as Hurricane Katrina's political and economic impact deepened.(AFP/Pool/David J. Philip) -
AFP/File - Fri Sep 9, 8:53 AM ET
Picture dated May 2000 shows a Bonobo at a sanctuary in Kinshasa. Bonobos have been given a sanctuary near Kinshasa where they wait to return to their home in the forests of the vast Democratic Republic of Congo.(AFP/File/Desirey Minkoh) -
AFP/File - Fri Sep 9, 9:22 AM ET
A Taiwanese man looks at a road washed away after Typhoon Talim pounded Wulai. Taiwan's weather bureau warned residents to prepare for Typhoon Khanun which may hit the island over the weekend, bringing strong winds and torrential rains.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh) -
AFP - Fri Sep 9,10:26 AM ET
An elderly resident sleeps outside her room in the 'Botawala Chawl' -- one of Mumbai's 'most dangerous' dilapidated structures. Heavy rains flooded streets and brought rail traffic to a standstill in parts of India's main financial city, Mumbai, still recovering from a deluge six weeks ago that killed more than 400 people.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee) -
AFP/NOAA/HO - Fri Sep 9,12:02 PM ET
Ophelia was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm after losing steam off Florida's east coast, the National Hurricane Center said.(AFP/NOAA/HO) -
AFP/Lehtikuva/File - Fri Sep 9,12:16 PM ET
The Loviisa nuclear reactor in Finland. Greenpeace called on Finland to halt construction of a new nuclear reactor, arguing that neither the builders nor Finnish authorities could vouch for the reactor's safety.(AFP/Lehtikuva/File) -
AFP/File - Fri Sep 9,12:21 PM ET
A bear cub in a nature reserve in Croatia. Europe is not doing enough to protect wildlife or prepare for economic changes to agriculture and forestry as a result of climate change, European environmental experts said.(AFP/File/Hrvoje Polan) -
AFP/File - Fri Sep 9,12:36 PM ET
A gorilla in the Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC called for more money from developed countries to save the animals from extinction.(AFP/File/Riccardo Gangale) -
Two statues of the Virgin Mary sit abandoned in the middle of Highway 90 in east New Orleans. -
A helicopter fights a forest fire that has been raging for two days on the Canary island of Las Palmas. -
An Iraqi boy looks at birds at an animal market in Baghdad. -
A Chinese policeman watches the sunrise over Tiananmen Square in Beijing. -
Kashmiri Muslim women pray at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, India.