Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Storm-Hit Haitians Starve on Rooftops

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Storm-Hit Haitians Starve on Rooftops
200,000 Marooned in Mud As Storm Devastates Haiti

by Rory Carroll
Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the impoverished Caribbean nation, said President Rene Preval. A fourth storm, Ike, was gathering force in the Atlantic and could strike next week.

More than 120 people have died, thousands are homeless and agriculture and transport networks have been washed away, prompting calls for emergency international aid.

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Warming Oceans ‘Are The Engine Driving Stronger Hurricanes’

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Published on Friday, September 5, 2008 by The Independent/UK
Warming Oceans ‘Are The Engine Driving Stronger Hurricanes’

by Steve Connor

The destructive intensity of the winds caused by tropical storms and hurricanes has increased significantly in the past 30 years, in line with the theory that cyclones are becoming stronger because of global warming, scientists said yesterday.

[The idea that warmer oceans could result in stronger hurricanes was suggested in 2005 by Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Getty images)]The idea that warmer oceans could result in stronger hurricanes was suggested in 2005 by Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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