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How to Evacuate With Pets During a Natural Disaster

How to Evacuate With Pets During a Natural Disaster

By Daisy Simmons In a wildfire, hurricane, or other disaster, people with pets should heed the Humane Society’s advice: If it isn’t safe for you, it isn’t safe for your animals either. Whether your charge is a lap dog, bird, outdoor cat, or farm animal, planning ahead for a potential evacuation can help you protect […]

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    Cyclone Gati Threatens Somalia With Two Years of Rain in Two Days

    Cyclone Gati Threatens Somalia With Two Years of Rain in Two Days

    Cyclone Gati made landfall in Somalia Sunday as the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, the first time that a hurricane-strength storm has made landfall in the East African country, NPR reported. Furthermore, at one point before making landfall, Gati strengthened to sustained winds of 115 miles per hour, the equivalent of a Category 3 […]

    Hurricane Iota Breaks Records as It Slams Nicaragua

    Hurricane Iota Breaks Records as It Slams Nicaragua

    Hurricane Iota made landfall along the coast of northeastern Nicaragua at 10:40 p.m. Monday night as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm. The landfall location was just 15 miles away from where the devastating Hurricane Eta made landfall 13 days earlier, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). It was also the most powerful storm […]

    Study: Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Stay Stronger, Longer

    Study: Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Stay Stronger, Longer

    Hurricanes are staying stronger for longer after making landfall, causing greater and more widespread destruction, because ocean waters heated by climate change give them extra fuel, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature. Researchers looked at 71 hurricanes that made landfall since 1967. In the 1960s, hurricanes lost 75% of their energy in the […]

    World’s Latest Climate Refugees Lived in Guatemalan Village Destroyed by Hurricane Eta

    World’s Latest Climate Refugees Lived in Guatemalan Village Destroyed by Hurricane Eta

    A large landslide caused by torrential rains during Hurricane Eta buried half a small village’s residents, leaving the other half searching for family members and neighbors in Guatemala on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported. Officials deemed Queja, a farming community of a few hundred residents, “uninhabitable,” and ended rescue operations, calling for the survivors to […]

    Tropical Storm Theta Is Record-Breaking 29th Storm of 2020

    Tropical Storm Theta Is Record-Breaking 29th Storm of 2020

    Tropical Storm Theta became the 29th storm of the exceptionally active and record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Monday night. No year on record has ever seen so many named storms, and officials are tracking two systems that could become named storms in the coming days. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Eta, which already caused widespread devastation across […]

    Tropical Storm Eta Hits Florida Keys; Central American Death Toll Rises

    Tropical Storm Eta Hits Florida Keys; Central American Death Toll Rises

    A restrengthening Tropical Storm Eta hit the Florida Keys Sunday night. Officials warn it could strengthen into a hurricane and dump six to 12 inches of rain across an already saturated South Florida as it meanders around the southeastern Gulf of Mexico for days. Eta’s Florida landfall comes as its human toll in Central America […]

    Eta’s Path of Destruction Continues With Flooding in Central America

    Eta’s Path of Destruction Continues With Flooding in Central America

    The storm formerly known as Hurricane Eta slowly dragged across Honduras Wednesday, dumping heavy rains across the region and prompting emergency flood and landslide warnings. A 15-year-old boy drowned in a rain-swollen river, bringing the storm’s direct death toll to four. Hundreds of homes were destroyed by floodwaters in San Pedro Sula alone, according to […]