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Video: 8 years later, Mississippi Catholic school continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina
2013-08-30 19:41:00| American School & University
St. Stanislaus School in Bay St. Louis has embarked on a $5 million project to carry out the final phase of needed repairs. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Looking at Future Climate Threats Eight Years After Hurricane Katrina
2013-08-29 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Eight years ago today, Hurricane Katrina came roaring in out of the Gulf of Mexico and straight into New Orleans. The storm overwhelmed the citys levees and flooded many of the neighborhoods, ultimately killing more than 1,800 people--most of them poor and underprivileged--and wreaking more than $108 billion in estimated damages. Poignantly, even New Orleans Six Flags amusement park remains abandoned, the Closed for Storm signs still posted. But while slow, the rebuilding process is real....
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Hurricane Katrina anniversary prompts call to action on climate change
2013-08-24 18:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: Eight years after Hurricane Katrina decimated metro New Orleans, elected officials, community activists and religious leaders gathered Saturday to recognize the region's resilience. But more importantly, they urged expedient action on rebuilding the state's fragile coastline and addressing the impacts of climate change. "We have a moral obligation to future generations to insure that tragedies like Hurricane Katrina do not happen again,'' said Norma Jane Sabiston of the Climate Action Committee...
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Suit Claiming Hurricane Katrina Related to Global Warming Goes Before Appeals Court
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Louisiana Record: The U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is set to issue its second opinion in a drawn out climate change case that pits landowners against energy companies. The suit, which accuses a number of companies of contributing to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions, was originally filed in a Mississippi district court in 2005 just 22 days after Hurricane Katrina hit. In the original filing, 14 plaintiffs sued eight named oil companies, 100 unnamed oil and refining companies and 31 coal...
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Sandy, Katrina a taste of what global warming will bring, UGA ecologist says
2013-04-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Online Athens: Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy were separated by more than 1,300 miles and eight years, but they share one big thing in common, according to University of Georgia ecologist James Porter: They were exactly the sort of destructive superstorms we will see more frequently, as global warming advances and sea levels rise. No single weather event can be chalked up to global warming but climate scientists believe that warmer temperatures will fuel bigger and more frequent hurricanes, Porter told a University...