Aga Khan, the leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial ceremony The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony. The governor of Aswan welcomed Prince Karim’s family at the southern Egyptian’s provinces airport ahead of the burial serv...
Democratic online donations are flooding ActBlue The platform raised more than $27.5 million Sunday afternoon. Jessica Piper07/21/2024, 7:28pm ET ActBlue, the major Democratic fundraising platform, is blowing up this afternoon. Since Biden's announcement, the platform — which include...
Houston hurricane Harvey health (Houston-3H) study: assessment of allergic symptoms and stress after hurricane Harvey flooding. Environ Health. 2021;20(1):9. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Liu GT, Dancause KN, Elgbeili G, Laplante DP, King S. Disaster-related prenatal maternal...
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on September 26, 2024 in almost the same spot and followed the same path into Georgia as Hurricane Idalia in 2023. Gulf Coast flooding in Florida was basically the same. However, Perry went through the eyewall of both storms. It was heavily damaged...
Launch time was 12:15 PM. I meandered up the east side, poking into every nook and cranny. The current was nominally flooding, but flood that far north is fairly weak. By the George’s Island boat ramp, it was definitely turning to ebb, but I pressed on, curious to see what lay ...
“This year though, as the Grand Solar Minimum fully kicks into gear,extreme weather events are hitting multiple regions simultaneously— fromravaging frosts in South America, to a ‘year without a spring’ in Europe, tohistoric flooding across China; one result of which has been theFood Price...
In contrast, the main current threats to the reproductive success and survival of the vulnerable dugong are extreme weather events that affect availability of its seagrass diet. Climate disruption with increasingly severe coastal storms and flooding threaten the health of coastal seagrass beds, and ...
Jakarta is home to 10 million people, and is overcrowded and heavily polluted. It is prone to earthquakes and flooding, and parts of the city are sinking as much as 25cm a year as a result of subsidence. The Borneo Island is known for rainforests and orangutans. ...
In these regions, much of the loss of life associated with tropical cyclones is related to inland flooding and mudslides. In highly industrialized countries with good infrastructure and well-developed warning systems, the death toll tends to be lower, but damage far higher. For example, a 1991 ...