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Hemingway House Staff and 54 Cats Defy Irma

Before making its second landfall in Florida near Naples Sunday, Hurricane Irma battered Key West as a Category 4 storm, leaving uprooted trees and waterfront streets underwater. But Hurricane Irma’s wrath and mandatory evacuation orders in Key West were not enough to deter staff at Ernest Hemingway’s Home and Museum —and its 54 six-toed cats […]

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Meteorologist vs. Hurricane Irma In Key West Video Goes Viral

A video of a meteorologist fighting against Hurricane Irma in Key West, Florida, went viral Sunday as the winds nearly knocked the reporter off his feet. With more than 200,000 views and over 11,000 up votes, it became one of the top-trending clips on Reddit, though not much information was included with the short clip.

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Storm surge: What happens when the sea rises up during a hurricane?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricanes are often defined and categorized by their wind speed, but the real danger comes not from furious winds but from the sudden, often fatal rise of the sea. There is more loss of life through drowning than any other of the various deadly hazards posed by these tropical storms. Storm surge

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Race to rescue survivors from ruins of Mexico quake

Race to rescue survivors from ruins of Mexico quake Police, soldiers and emergency workers raced Friday to rescue survivors from the ruins of Mexico’s most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 61 people. In the southern region hit hardest by the quake, emergency workers looked for survivors — or bodies — in

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Bahamas narrowly escapes the worst of Hurricane Irma

Bahamas narrowly escapes the worst of Hurricane Irma The Bahamas had a close call but ultimately escaped the worst of Hurricane Irma’s destructive wrath, with no casualties or major infrastructure damages yet reported Friday. The storm passed through the southeast islands including Mayagua, Inagua, Crooked Island Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Islands, on Thursday and

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Hurricane Irma forces Disney, Universal, SeaWorld closings in Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Irma has forced Florida attractions — including Walt Disney World’s four theme parks — to close their doors to guests for multiple days, starting Saturday evening. Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme parks will close at 7 p.m. Saturday, followed by Magic Kingdom and Epcot at 9 p.m. All

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8.1 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest to ever hit Mexico

And a hurricane may be on the way. A map showing the intensity of shaking during the September 7 earthquake off the coast of Mexico. USGS A massive magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Mexico just before midnight on Thursday. The quake—widely considered to be among the strongest to ever hit the country—originated deep in the Earth

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To guard against climate change, Los Angeles is painting its streets white

They plan to lower the temperature by 3 degrees over the next 20 years. Los Angeles Pixabay Labor Day weekend delivered record-breaking temperatures to California as a heat wave swept the state, fanning the flames of the largest wildfire Los Angeles has seen in decades. The unusually warm weather bears the mark of climate change,

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Irma’s winds reach 185 mph as powerful storm churns toward Florida

MIAMI — Irma continued to strengthen into a powerful storm Tuesday afternoon, with winds increasing to 185 mph, National Hurricane Center forecasters said in a 2 p.m. EDT advisory. As the storm continued to track westward, islands in its path raced to complete last-minute preparations. The Leeward Islands are expected to get hit with “catastrophic”

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Texas rallies to rescue pets, with lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina

HOUSTON — The big-rig truck was full of cats. Theo, who had a bit of a sneeze. Vennessa, who was acting like a diva. Two Thomases. And Buck, who, to everyone’s surprise, was a girl. They had been living in shelters in southeast Texas. But with Hurricane Harvey leaving untold numbers of family pets stranded,

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93-year-old American woman donates $22 mn to Cologne Zoo

A 93-year-old widow from the United States has donated $22 million to the zoo in Cologne, Germany, saying she wanted to give back to the city where she and her husband met during World War II, German media reported Friday. “We never forgot Cologne,” Elizabeth Reichert told the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper by phone from her

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Great apes abilities misunderstood in decades of research by human hubris

Credit: University of St Andrews. Scientists are learning striking new features about nonhuman great apes on a yearly basis. Progress, however, is slow and some papers can actually be misleading as a result of some researchers’ skewed views and biases. In other words, our false sense of superiority leads us to perceive great apes such

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Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Deep Space Detected

Repeating radio signals from a mysterious source in a dwarf galaxy three billion light years away have been detected by astronomers. Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen initiative—a massive project dedicated to finding signs of intelligent alien life—recorded 15 repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) on August 26th. The

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