By Angela Fritz 20 October 2017 (The Washington Post) – Typhoon Lan is growing more powerful in the very warm waters of the tropical Pacific. It has more than enough energy to draw from over the next 48 hours, and will in all likelihood reach Category-4 strength on Friday or Saturday. The storm is tracking […]
19 October 2017 (The Siberian Times) – Around 20 beasts have surrounded Ryrkaypiy, with one bear cub trying to get into a house through the window.The polar bears were attracted by 5,000 walruses that appeared this year at a special protection zone in Chukotka.Many of the frightened flippered marine mammals fell off cliffs at Kozhevnikova […]
By Edward-Isaac Dovere 17 October 2017 (Politico) – Just before the interview starts, Jenniffer González-Colón tries four different numbers she’s been trying to reach back home in Puerto Rico. She gets the same error message for all of them. Can’t connect.One call that does come through is from the White House, which is trying to […]
By Luke Harding, David Pegg, and Juliette Garside 17 October 201 (The Guardian) – In her last blogpost, published the day she died, Daphne Caruana Galizia signed off with a sentence that seems particularly chilling now.“There are crooks everywhere you look. The situation is desperate.”Caruana Galizia, 53, felt she had good reason to feel pessimistic […]
By Danny Boyle and Chris Graham 17 October 2017 (The Telegraph) – Three people are dead and hundreds of thousands still without power following Storm Ophelia; the worst storm in recorded history on the island of Ireland.The storm force winds cleared Ireland’s coast by midnight, but people were warned to remain cautious in the aftermath […]
16 October 2017 (UN News) – Food security for all requires tackling climate change and ending conflicts, His Holiness, Pope Francis, stressed Monday at an official ceremony for World Food Day held at the Rome headquarters of the United Nations agriculture agency.“It is clear that wars and climatic change are a cause of hunger, so […]
By Sean Breslin 17 October 2017 (weather.com) – President Donald Trump addressed Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria during a Monday press conference, saying the military is being asked to perform tasks that other groups should be able to do instead. “They have to distribute the food to the people of the island,” Trump told […]
By Michael Melia 16 October 2017 CAGUAS, Puerto Rico (Associated Press) – Raw sewage is pouring into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. People without running water bathe and wash their clothes in contaminated streams, and some islanders have been drinking water from condemned wells. Nearly a month […]
By Caitlin Dickerson 16 October 2017CHARCO ABAJO, Utuado, P.R. (The New York Times) – When Hurricane Maria swept away the bridge that led in and out of Charco Abajo, a remote village in the mountainous inland of Puerto Rico, Carlos Ocasio and Pablo Perez Medina decided that they could not wait for help to arrive. […]
By Kate Connolly 14 October 201 (The Guardian) – Leading climate scientists have warned that geoengineering research could be hijacked by climate change deniers as an excuse not to reduce CO2 emissions, citing the US administration under Donald Trump as a major threat to their work.David Keith, a solar geoengineering (GE) expert at Harvard University […]
