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Triple-digit heat in store for Texans recovering from deadly storms
The death toll rose to seven Saturday from storms that ripped through Texas this week, with a half million people still struggling through mass power outages that caused traffic chaos and sewage overflow and raised new health threats as near-triple digit temperatures were expected to roll in. Intense thunderstorms slammed into the Houston area Thursday accompanied by a “derecho,” a widespread, long-lasting windstorm that had gusts up to 100 mph, blowing out windows of high-rise buildings, tearing down trees and breaking apart high-voltage power transmission towers. Over a million were originally in the dark and at least 500,000 remained without power...
‘Crazy’ ocean heat bleaching corals so perilously, scientists hope for hurricanes to cool things off
Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off.
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