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Orlando Shooting Timeline

Police have pieced together a more accurate timeline of the shooting at Pulse Nightclub on June 12th.

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Orlando Nightclub Shooting

Investigators in Orlando are piecing together information on the man who committed the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 and the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

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Deadliest Mass Shooting

Caroline Stephenson built this animation that shows a timeline of deadliest mass shootings over the past years.

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Miners Stuck

Seventeen miners in New York were saved after being trapped in one of the deepest salt mines in the world. Cyril Meusy’s animation illustrates what went wrong and how far below the miners were trapped

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California Gas Leak

A state of emergency was declared in the US state of California over a massive natural gas leak that has been spewing methane and other gases into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months, sickening residents and forcing thousands to evacuate. This gas leak is believed to be the largest since the 2010 BP oil spill. Deepak Sharma‘s animation explains how fixing this leak isn’t an easy task — it goes into depth as to what has been done and what remains to be done.

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Buffalo snow

Toronto called in the army after 113 centimetres of snow fell over two weeks in 1999. Now, imagine receiving that same amount in just 24 hours.

That’s just what parts of Buffalo are dealing with after battling snow for more than two days. The main cause of the 123-plus cm of snow (4 feet, for Americans) is due to lake effect snow.

Janet Cordahi built this infographic with the towering chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell, which compares the amount of snow that different areas of Buffalo received.

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