Hurricane Sally gains strength as it nears southern US

2023-02-08T16:18+0100qnewshub (en)

Hurricane Sally picked up strength as it edged towards the US Gulf Coast early Wednesday, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke “historic” and potentially deadly flash floods. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said coastal areas in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida were in the sights....

Donation boxes set up in Lower Mainland to raise money after devastating quake 0 2/7/2023 2:15:00 PM

2023-02-08T00:25+0100tricitynews (en)

Sumeet Sharma is a superhero in our midst. The Burnaby-based powerlifter, who recently was raising money to help flood victims in Pakistan , is now donning his superhero cape once again to raise money for victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Syria and Turkey.

Their American Dream Is Being Washed Away

2023-02-04T15:24+0100nytimes (en)

Hurricane Harvey damaged more than 200,000 homes in Houston, and other climate disasters in 2017 destroyed hundreds of thousands more properties in the United States; the destruction has continued since then, with floods and fires rendering about a million Americans homeless on average each year,....

Migrant Farmworkers Have No Safety Net in the Face of Catastrophic Flooding

2023-01-30T20:36+0100truthout (en)

and how the rainfall was “ great for wine .” But the people at the heart of the “fruit basket” of the U.S. ( over three-quarters of nuts and fruits and one-third of vegetables consumed in the U.S. are grown by California farmworkers) have weathered long stretches without work, or with significantly....