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According to new research released, the number of hurricanes which hit the United States may drop due to rising ocean temperatures from global warming.
Global warming is causing ocean temperatures to rise, and in turn could cause the number of hurricanes which hit the U.S. each year to drop significantly.
The study was published in the Geophysical […]

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Tropical Storm Noel continues on its path of destruction as heavy rain has been dropped in the Caribbean on Tuesday leaving 22 people dead due to floods and mudslides.
Noel is now hitting Cuba and is making its way towards Florida as it inches closer and closer by the hour.
Warnings have alreayd been in effect […]

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Houston - Hurricane Humberto crashed into southeastern Texas early Thursday making landfall near Galveston.
The storn grew from a tropical depression into a hurricane in a very short period of time. When it hit lanfall it was a Category 1 hurricane which is the weakest out of the 5 scales. IT has maximum sustained […]

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Jakarta - A powerful 8.2 earthquake jolted parts of Indonesia’s Java and Sumatra islands on Wednesday evening, killing at least three people and prompting a tsunami warning that was later withdrawn for Indonesia - but not for nearby nations.
The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, which measured the quake’s magnitude at 8.2 in the Richter […]

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The official death toll from Hurricane Felix has climbed to almost 100 today as soldiers continue to search for survivors and bodies in Honduras and Nicaragua.
The category-five storm slammed into the two countries earlier this week with winds of more than 150mph.
The hurricane devastated Miskito Indian communities living along the coastline that stretches across […]

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba -Felix has strengthened into a dangerous Category Five hurricane and has torn through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it will make landfall as a “potentially catastrophic” storm.
Felix, the second hurricane of the 2007 season and the second after last month’s Hurricane Dean to ramp up […]

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Hurricane Felix is gaining strength. It’s now a Category-Two storm with 100-mile-an-hour winds. And the National Hurricane Center says it could become a major Category-Three storm in the next 24 hours.
A Category 1 storm has wind speed of 74 to 95 mph; Category 2 is 96 to 110 mph; […]

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At least eight people were killed in central Mexico by landslides and accidents blamed on the remnants of Hurricane Dean, now a weakening tropical depression that dumped heavy rains, causing devastating damage.
In the state of Puebla, a family of four, including two children, died when a mudslide hit a highway overpass Thursday and crushed […]

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Mexico has reopened two of its three main oil ports following Hurricane Dean, but officials say production remains suspended as they assess the storm’s impact on the industry. The remnants of Hurricane Dean dumped heavy rain across central Mexico on Thursday.
The threat of serious flooding and mudslides remained as the former Category 5 hurricane […]

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Hurricane Dean lashed Mexico’s Caribbean coastline with fierce winds and heavy rain Tuesday as forecasters warned the rare Category 5 storm could bring “catastrophic” damage to the region as it continues to head west toward the middle of the Yucatan Peninsula on a course that appears to rule out any damage in Texas.
The eye […]

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