Month: March 2022

The National Hurricane Center warned that Hurricane Laura will cause “life-threatening storm surge” reaching up to 40 miles inland and rising up to 20 feet “Hurricane Laura hits Gulf Coast as an “extremely dangerous” storm”

Wildfires continue burning in California, with unhealthy air from smoke still cloaking some parts of the state. Combined with the Covid-19 pandemic, the fires are “What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual”

Hurricane Laura made landfall at 1 am ET Thursday in Cameron, Louisiana, as a fierce Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds. It has since “Hurricane Laura: The danger of storm surge, explained”

Before Hurricane Laura made landfall in the United States, it had already proved to be a deadly storm in three Caribbean countries, bringing torrential downpours, “Hurricane Laura was already a deadly storm before it reached the US”

A couple of months ago, President Donald Trump said he told federal officials to “slow the testing down, please.” Now the Trump administration is taking “Trump asked for fewer Covid-19 tests. Now the CDC is recommending less testing.”

To get the US pandemic under control, a growing number of health and medical experts are making a clarion call for an additional testing approach “Rapid $1 Covid-19 tests exist. Why can’t we get them?”

As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks “How Trump let Covid-19 win”

Tropical Storm Laura, which has been downgraded from a hurricane, made landfall early Thursday morning in Cameron, Louisiana — just 35 miles east of the “Tropical Storm Laura’s flooding and other impacts on the ground: What we know”

President Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday — and the events surrounding the Republican National Convention in general — at times came off as a celebration: “The absurdity of Trump’s RNC speech, in one photo”

Earth is now in the middle of a mass extinction, the sixth one in the planet’s history, according to scientists. And now a new study ““Extinction breeds extinctions”: How losing one species can wipe out many more”