Tag: hurricane
Hurricanes Milton and Helene were intensified by climate change, researchers find
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are following the trend of these storms becoming supercharged and more likely to form, according to a pair of studies from the World Weather Attribution.
Helene unleashes a hurricane of anti-semitism
"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer
Category 3 Idalia strongest hurricane to hit Big Bend, Florida on...
When Idalia made landfall sustained winds were 125 miles per hour, making it the strongest hurricane to hit Big Bend since records started in 1851.
Florida’s deadliest hurricane in years may worsen inequality, homelessness amid DeSantis’s...
Are Republicans like Governor DeSantis “more concerned about sticking it to Joe Biden than actually making sure that they can take care of their people?”
A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane...
While the full health impacts of the fire weren’t immediately known, a storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers like myself have warned the petrochemical industry about for decades.
2 hurricanes could strike US on the same day for the...
The current projections have both storms passing through the Gulf of Mexico and barreling into the coast at the same time on Wednesday morning.
Hurricane Michael pummels communities in Florida, a state led by a...
It is the third most powerful storm to ever hit the U.S. mainland, and meteorologists say it is supercharged by warmer-than-usual water in the Gulf of Mexico.
South Carolina: Two women from mental health facility drown in flood...
“There are a lot of questions remaining about why this had to occur then, why there couldn’t have been some sort of an emergency delay.”
South Carolina prisoners were left in cells as Florence descended. Why...
Prisoners were instead put to work behind bars making sandbags to prepare for the storm’s arrival.
Immigrants seeking shelter after Hurricane Florence fear deportation as FEMA shifts...
The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.
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Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as detainee population swells
At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.
Trump DOJ sues states to shield fossil fuel companies from climate lawsuits in unprecedented...
In a sweeping defense of oil and gas corporations, the Trump administration has filed federal lawsuits against four states to block efforts aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change damages—an aggressive action legal experts warn undermines state authority and sets a dangerous precedent.
How decision-making is affected by social conformity
Despite the rise of social media and digital influence, studies suggest that our tendency to conform socially remains unchanged—though brain imaging reveals surprising links between conformity, decision-making, and the orbitofrontal cortex.
Florida to become second state to ban fluoride in public water systems
With a vote of 88-27, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that would ultimately ban fluoride in drinking water. SB 700, also known...
Friends, patriots, countrymen, where are your ears?
See no evil, hear no evil, admit no evil—the close-minded cult of suckered MAGA monkeys.