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[ad_1] The most severe hurricane to hit Louisiana swept through one of the nation’s largest chemical, oil and gas hubs. And while the storm’s impact may take days or weeks to become fully clear, early reports of damage have raised concerns about the vulnerability of the region’s fossil fuel infrastructure to intensifying storms. On Monday, …
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[ad_1] There’s probably a large space rock out there with the Earth in the crosshairs. Scientists have actually identified a candidate – Bennu, which has little chance of hitting our planet in 2182. But whether it’s Bennu or another asteroid, the question will be how to avoid a highly unwelcome cosmic encounter. For nearly 20 …
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[ad_1] “It’s like a turbocharger,” said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International, for some of the legal strategies that Greenpeace and other organizations have followed in the courts for years. Earlier this year, Greenpeace successfully sued Royal Dutch Shell in a Dutch court using evidence from an earlier UN report. “I expect the speed …
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[ad_1] DALLAS – Talia Suskauer knows what it’s like to be green. He remembers the feeling of pigment and powder on his arms, neck and face; how the color seeps into his pores and stays behind his ears; What it was like to see a strange yet familiar self looking back in the mirror. He …
Continue reading “‘Wicked’ Hits the Road, Carries Hopes of Broadway Tours”
[ad_1] The ruling Communist Party in China takes over High-profile arrest of a Canadian-Chinese pop singer To give a stern warning against what he sees as a societal disease on suspicion of rape in Beijing: the celebrity obsession. In less than a month, 30-year-old pop singer Kris Wu has gone from being one of China’s …
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[ad_1] While linking climate change to the catastrophic flooding in Europe last week would require extensive scientific analysis, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture and causes more heavy rainfall in many storms around the world. There is little doubt that extreme weather events will continue to become more frequent and more intense as a result …
Continue reading “‘Nobody’s Safe’: Extreme Weather Hits Rich World”
[ad_1] LEDOUX, NM — Ledoux, a remote village nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, has relied on a network of irrigation ditches to irrigate its crops for more than a century. The outpost’s acequias, as New Mexico’s legendary canals are known, are filled with snowmelt and rains each year. But while the Southwest is …
Continue reading “Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Are Drying”