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Open Image ModalMount Sinabung spews ash and lava during an early morning eruption near Karo, North Sumatra on January 8, 2014. An Indonesian volcano that has erupted relentlessly for months shot volcanic ash into the air 30 times on January 4, forcing further evacuations with more than 20,000 people now displaced, an official said. (Photo by SUTANTA ADITYA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(02 of15)
Open Image ModalIn this photo released by the Australian Bat Clinic, fifteen heat-stressed baby flying foxes (bats) are lined up ready to feed at the Australia Bat Clinic near the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Thousands of bats near Brisbane and the Gold Coast have succumbed to the extreme heat falling out of trees and dying during a heat wave in which heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever. (AP Photo/Australian Bat Clinic, Trish Wimberley) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalA picture shows the water tower of the Batllava artificial lake near the Kosovar village of Orllane on January 9, 2014. The water level in the Batllava lake, which supplies Pristina and Podujevo, has fallen dramatically, threatening to leave hundreds of thousands of people without water supply. (Photo by ARMEND NIMANI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalMount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke, seen from Sibintun village on January 8, 2014 in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The number of displaced people has increased to 22,000 in Western Indonesia as Mount Sinabung continues to spew ash and smoke after several eruptions since September. Eleven deaths have now been recorded as a result of the eruptions with hundreds more falling ill. Officials expect the number of evacuees to rise as volcanic activity remains high. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalPeople watch and photograph enormous waves as they break on Porthcawl Harbour, South Wales, Monday Jan. 6, 2014. Residents along Britain's coasts braced for more flooding as strong winds, rain and high tides lashed the country. (AP Photo/PA, Ben Birchall, File) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalJohn Brower has snow on his eye lashes after running to work in the frigid -20 weather Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 in Minneapolis. A whirlpool of frigid, dense air known as a "polar vortex" descended Monday into much of the U.S. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalA wave hits the lighthouse of Les Sables d'Olonne as a storm brings strong winds on January 6, 2014 in Les Sables d'Olonne, western France. (Photo by JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalIn this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, ice covers the surface of the Hudson River off the west side of Midtown Manhattan in New York. After record-breaking cold sent the city into a deep freeze early in the week, temperatures climbed back into the 30's by Friday. (AP Photo/Malcolm Ritter) (credit:AP)
(09 of15)
Open Image ModalIn this Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 photo, dead fish lie in the dry silt of Lake Arrowhead, one of the prime sources of water for the City of Wichita Falls, Texas. An exceptional drought has caused area lake levels to drop and has forced the city to adopt emergency water restrictions. (AP Photo/Wichita Falls Times Record News, Torin Halsey) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalDark clouds and a heavy rain approach Montevideo from the Rio de la Plata, Uruguay on January 7, 2014. (Photo byd MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalIce builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach as temperatures dipped well below zero on January 6, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago hit a record low of -16 degree Fahrenheit this morning as a polar air mass brought the coldest temperatures in about two decades into the city. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalChristine Baker wades through flood water, pulling her dog Archie in a boat, at the Abbey Fields caravan park after the River Thames flooded on January 8, 2014 in Chersey, England. Parts of the United Kingdon are entering a third week of flooding and stormy conditions. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalDucks swim past dead fish floating on a lake in the 3 de Febrero Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. According to the park's Director, Alejandro Perez, the lake's large fish are affected by the current heat wave, as the rising temperature is lowering the oxygen level in the water. He added that no ducks, geese or small fish have died, and that a pollution hypothesis was discarded following tests in December. The park, also known as Bosques de Palermo, is one of the citys largest parks, known for its lakes and rose gardens and is popular with tourists. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalWater still cascades over Niagara Falls on January 10, 2014. The famous falls at the US-Canadian border nearly froze during the recent cold snap which affected some 240 million people in the US and southern Canada . (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Open Image ModalCommuters walk on fog enveloped railway tracks on a cold winter morning in Gauhati, India,Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Though India is famous for its brutally hot summers, temperatures fall sharply for a few weeks in December and January badly affecting air and rail communication. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (credit:AP)