Hurricane Florence Death Count Continues to Rise
The number of victims of the latest storm to hit the U.S., Hurricane Florence reached 17 on Sunday and is still on the rise, officials inform. Among those who lost their lives to the storm […]
The number of victims of the latest storm to hit the U.S., Hurricane Florence reached 17 on Sunday and is still on the rise, officials inform. Among those who lost their lives to the storm […]
One million people were left without power after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday and proceeds to move through the east coast. North Carolina officials confirmed earlier Saturday that five people died […]
Officials said Friday Hurricane Florence has resulted in the deaths of five people, including an infant, in North Carolina. Florence hit the area as a Category 1 hurricane early Friday before slowly moving to South […]
Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina early this morning, hitting the coast and bringing destruction with its Category 1 winds and heavy rains which threaten to cause floods in the area. According to the […]
According to a report by Duke Energy, somewhere between 1 million and 3 million people are expected to lose power when Hurricane Florence makes landfall later this week. According to The Hill, Duke Energy has […]
The global palm oil industry – frequently the target of environmental campaigners – is showing promise in some surprising corners of the world. Corporacion Dinant, itself the focus of NGO ire in the past, plies […]
Florence is poised to become the strongest hurricane in almost 30 years to hit the Carolinas, as more than one million people began fleeing the American coastline, Bloomberg reports. North Carolina’s Outer Banks are under […]
Ahead of Hurricane Florence’s expected landfall on the east coast the U.S. military moved 30 Navy ships based in Virginia and activated more than 950 North and South Carolina National Guard troops. According to Reuters, […]
Hurricane Florence is tracking toward the East Coast with an inevitability rarely seen in storms several days away from landfall, and while forecasters were careful to cite “high uncertainty” in recent days, the tone changed […]
An earthquake of 4.4-magnitude hit the south of California on Tuesday at least 25 miles east of Los Angeles, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake […]
Support for President Donald Trump among farmers has decreased as the trade war with China drags on, according to a Farm Journal Research survey published Tuesday, CNBC informed. Trump received about 70 percent of farmers’ votes in the 2016 […]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged President Donald Trump to allocate additional federal funds to help California’s raging wildfires, as well as new steps to combat climate change. Experts say that the global warming is […]
President Donald Trump’s golf course in Scotland, opened in 2012, “partially destroyed” a nature conserve widely regarded as crucial to the area’s ecosystem, a Sunday report alleges. An environmental agency has obtained documents, using the […]
Since President Donald Trump roll-backed bans on lion trophies, more than thirty permits to import lion trophies have been issued. The advocacy group Friends of Animals obtained documents showing that thirty-eight permits have been granted […]
Hypnotizing and alluring, the largest of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands – Marco Island is located on the Gulf of Mexico in Southwest Florida. Known for its beautiful white sand beaches and vast choices of popular […]
More than 2500 scientists from around the world have supported a study that is warning about the side effects on the environment if President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.- Mexico border is built. The […]
New York City’s lawsuit seeking to make several major oil companies financially responsible for dealing with climate change was dismissed by a federal judge, saying that the legal effort wasn’t permitted under the federal Clean […]
Several ex-government cyber and technology officials are demanding from the Census Bureau to publicly share their cybersecurity plan for the 2020 Census. This comes shortly after Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russians for the […]
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday created a loophole in the law which allows increased manufacturing on a kind of diesel freight truck known as “super polluting.” The move, which came on embattled administrator Scott […]
Around 80 percent of U.S. adults believe that the government spending on medical research, engineering and technology leads to advances that have a positive impact on society. The nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization Pew Research […]
In a new research paper published on Thursday, Resources for the Future warns that President Donald Trump’s proposal for boosting the struggling coal and nuclear plants could lead to premature deaths from pollution. The group found that for […]
Environmental organization Greenpeace announced that they crashed a Superman drone into the wall of a French nuclear site on Friday as a way to show that the facility has a lack of security. A video […]
Wildfires are spreading quickly and raging all across Northern California, with parched lands and high winds only speeding up the fires which prompt evacuation and discharging large amounts of ashes over the region, Newsweek reported. […]
A Maryland man with a shotgun killed five people after blasting his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis on Thursday afternoon. The victims were identified as Rob Hiaasen, 59, a former feature writer […]
An authentic rare document signed by Amelia Earhart which provides details of her aircraft has been found after half a century. The document, which was hidden in an attic, was filled out by the aviation […]
According to a new study from two Harvard University scientists, Trump administration’s environmental policies could result in an additional 80,000 deaths per decade. The research, conducted by public health economist David Cutler and biostatistician Francesca […]
Pope Francis on Saturday warned top oil executives that climate change could “destroy civilization.” Reuters reported that during a two-day conference at the Vatican, the pope said that climate change is a challenge of “epochal […]
One man is still missing after the historic Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland, was entirely flooded, leaving the community heartbroken at seeing severe damage less than two years after another devastating flood, CNBC informed. Howard County Executive Allan […]
Lava from the Kilauea volcano covered at least one well at a geothermal power plant on the Big Island on Sunday, according to a Hawaii County Civil Defense report, Fox News informed. According to the report, […]
Subtropical Storm Alberto is the first one of the 2018 hurricane season, heading toward expected landfall sometime Monday on the northern Gulf Coast, causing mass evacuations, Fox News informed. Despite the fact that the Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially start […]
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