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Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict

2 hours, 33 minutes ago Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

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Greenpeace wants Facebook center off coal fuel

2 hours, 41 minutes ago Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest online social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in the U.S.

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Report: Climate science panel needs change at top

Today at 11:54 AM Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate change panel called Monday for a major overhaul in the way it's run, but stopped short of calling for the ouster of the current leader.

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Some bunker down, some flee as Earl approaches US

Today at 9:00 AM The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a tropical storm warning early Thursday for the coast of Long Island in New York and a hurricane watch was issued for areas of Massachusetts.

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Earl becomes Category 4 storm; TS Gaston forms

Yesterday at 4:20 PM Forecasters say Hurricane Earl has become a Category 4 storm with top sustained winds of 135 mph as the dangerous and powerful storm heads toward the East Coast.

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NC vacation island to be cleared as Earl nears

Yesterday at 8:40 AM Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were ordered to board the ferries and head for the mainland Wednesday and more evacuations could be on the way as powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast.

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Hurricane Earl pounds Turks and Caicos; US braces - with video

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 The Category 4 hurricane, with winds of 135 mph (215 kilometers), was expected to remain over the open ocean before turning north and running parallel to the U.S. coast, potentially reaching the North Carolina coastal region by late Thursday or early Friday.

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5 years after Katrina, a revival not yet complete

Monday, August 30, 2010 Gulf Coast residents are marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina today by casting wreaths into the water to remember the hundreds killed and listening to their leaders promise a brighter future.

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Farmers' Almanac: Kinder, gentler winter on tap

Monday, August 30, 2010 Folks hammered by record snowfall in the mid-Atlantic and freakishly cold temperatures in the South can warm up to the latest forecast by the Farmers' Almanac.

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Volcano quiet for 400 years erupts in Indonesia

Sunday, August 29, 2010 Updated with video: A volcano in western Indonesia spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years

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Hurricane Danielle becomes Category 4 storm

Friday, August 27, 2010 Hurricane Danielle reaches Category 4 strength over the Atlantic with 135 mph winds

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Five years after Katrina skepticism remains about flood protection in New Orleans

Friday, August 27, 2010 In the five years since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for developing a new, state-of-the-art flood control system.

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