Environment

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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After a day of relative calm, the Kilauea volcano erupted again Sunday, spewing lava 300 feet in the air and destroying nearby homes, bringing the number to 26. Hawaii’s Civil Defense Agency said that since […]

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Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted Thursday, releasing lava into a residential area, which led to mandatory evacuations of nearby residents. According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Leilani Estates, a subdivision in the lower East Rift Zone […]

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