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Three days after Hurricane Michael’s devastating strike, search teams in Florida pressed their hunt for victims into hard-to-reach areas Saturday, as the death toll rose to 17 and officials scrambled to deliver aid to those who lost everything.

They had watched it gain strength from a category two storm on Tuesday as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico and headed for Florida. Rows of homes were ripped from foundations and roofs were peeled off schools by the near-record-force storm blamed for six deaths.

The booster rocket failure that forced an emergency landing for two astronauts headed to the International Space Station was the first launch accident for Russia’s manned-space program in 35 years.

Some of the worst damage was in Mexico Beach where the hurricane crashed ashore on Wednesday as a category four monster with 155mph winds and a storm surge of 9 feet.

Hurricane Michael claimed its first life after roaring ashore in Florida on Wednesday, flooding homes and streets and toppling trees and power lines in the Gulf of Mexico beachfront area where it made landfall as a raging Category 4 storm.

Former president of Ireland and environmentalist Mary Robinson believes the nation has the potential to become a world leader on the issue of climate change, The Irish Times reports. This group of scientists is known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a direct arm...

After making landfall in Florida, Michael’s fierce winds and heavy rain struck Georgia, where it was downgraded to a tropical storm heading towards the Carolinas. Storm surge could reach heights of 6 feet to 9 feet from the Okaloosa-Walton County line to Mexico Beach and...

Michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the Panhandle in decades. SURF: Swells generated by Michael are affecting the coasts of the eastern and northern Gulf of Mexico, and will spread to portions of the northwestern and western Gulf of Mexico coast during the...

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles. There is no doubt that portions of the Florida Panhandle will be destroyed.

Michael could strengthen into a major hurricane with winds topping 111 miles per hour (178 kph) by Tuesday night before an expected strike on Florida’s Panhandle or Big Bend, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The NHC predicts these coastal regions can expect 9 to 13 feet of storm surge, as Michael’s winds force a wall of water onto the low-lying shore. Rivers and streams that typically drain into the ocean can get clogged farther upstream, forcing water levels to rise. A...

The world has already warmed 1 degree C since pre-industrial times, so the talk is really about the difference of another half-degree C or 0.9 degrees F from now.

In a report released late Sunday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the global community still has a chance of limiting the average increase in temperatures to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, a goal sanctioned by the Paris climate...

Hurricane Michael has been upgraded to a Category 3 major hurricane as of the National Hurricane Center’s 5 p.m. Tuesday advisory.

“E$3 ven with erroneous attribution of extreme weather/climate events and projections using climate models that are running too hot and not fit for objective of projecting 21st century climate change, the IPCC still has not made a strong case for this massive investment to...