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- Gate operator Hakim Altaf checks the gate on the seawall in Georgetown, Guyana, Thursday, April 13, 2023. The seawall relies on dozens of workers like Altaf, who set alarms night and day to manually open and close sluice gates known as “kokers” that prevent the Atlantic Ocean from flooding Guyana. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women in Guyana join fight against climate change
By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press
Wed,05/24/23-11:17PM , 394 Reads
RUBY VILLAGE, Guyana (AP) — A small group of Indigenous women in northern Guyana are the latest weapon in the fight against climate change in this South American country where 90% of the population lives below sea level.
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Today in History: May 31, the Johnstown Flood
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,05/22/23-5:26AM , 78 Reads
Today in History

Today is Wednesday, May 31, the 151st day of 2023. There are 214 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town.
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- Damage is seen after a tornado hit in Port Isabel, Texas, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, Texas near South Padre Island. The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the last half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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UN agency: 2M killed, $4.3 trillion in damages from extreme weather over past half-century
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon,05/22/23-5:04AM , 141 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
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Italy's deadly floods just latest example of climate change's all-or-nothing weather extremes
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SETH BORENSTEIN AND NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Fri,05/19/23-3:23AM , 140 Reads
ROME (AP) — The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast are another drenching dose of climate change's all-or-nothing weather extremes, something that has been happening around the globe, scientists say.
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