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Hurricane Ida Survivors Get Help for Power, Home Restoration

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when it struck Louisiana on August 29 to tropical depression blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean east of New England on September 2 . […]

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New UN Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity’

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 9, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is widespread and rapidly intensifying, and some of the changes already in motion, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years, finds the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, released today. […]

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Hurricane Eta Kills 3 Central Americans, Aims at Florida

MIAMI, Florida, November 4, 2020 (ENS) – Slow-moving, wet and windy, Hurricane Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday afternoon. Eta had maximum sustained winds near 140 mph at landfall, but by Wednesday morning the winds had dropped to 70 mph winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]