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Kenya leader vows to help "victims of climate change" as flood deaths mount
Nairobi — Kenyan President William Ruto convened a special cabinet meeting Tuesday to discuss measures to tackle deadly floods that have killed nearly 170 people and displaced 185,000 others since March, his office said. Heavier than usual monsoon rains, compounded by the El Nino weather pattern, have devastated the East African country, along with neighboring Tanzania, engulfing villages and threatening to unleash even more damage in the weeks to come. In the worst single incident, which killed nearly 50 villagers, a makeshift dam burst in the Rift Valley region before dawn on Monday, sending torrents of mud and water gushing down...
National Hurricane Center to issue tropical updates in Spanish this season
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is coming up fast. The National Hurricane Center already has issued its first advisory of the season, when a short-lived disturbance popped up in the Atlantic Ocean April 24. Early predictions are calling for an extremely busy season, well above the historical average. Based on...
DC is facing a scorching summer — here’s why
Following last year’s brutally hot summer nationwide, Washington, D.C., is facing another hot summer this year. El Nino is a natural weather pattern marked by warmer-than-usual temperatures in the Pacific Ocean near the equator. The weather pattern can affect climates across the world. By June, it is expected that temperatures will get closer to the […]
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