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The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn't like the others, the ones that left nothing worse than a harrowing tale to tell.

The news on mammals is not good. 'We estimate that one in four species is threatened with extinction and that the population of one in two is declining,' researchers said in a report to be published Friday in the journal Science.

There is a decent chance that severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening will produce a couple of tornadoes.

At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the mar

Hundreds more people could die because of increasing levels of ozone at street level, according to scientists. Although the ozone layer protects the planet at a higher level, at ground level it is damaging to human health.