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An earthquake of 7.0 magnitude has struck off the Alaska peninsula in the early hours of Saturday. The Alaskan earthquake struck at a depth of 10km and the shaking was felt in Chignik, Cold Bay, Kodiak, and Bethel just before 4am local time. No tsunami alert was issued, according to the US Tsunami Warning System. Just two weeks ago on … Read More

Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, according to U.S. weather officials. As extreme heat waves have struck the United States and Europe, beating the previous temperature records set in July 2016 and tied again in 2019 and 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The last seven Julys, from 2015 to … Read More

The Texas Governor is appealing for out-of-state help to come and fight another wave of COVID-19 across the state. The Governor has directed the Texas Department of State Health Services to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff from beyond the state’s borders. As the delta wave of Covid has begun to overwhelm its present staffing resources. He also … Read More

Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, Texas, confirmed it is so overwhelmed due to the spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations it has been forced to set up tents outside to treat the overflow of patients. The hospital reported its intensive care unit was at 100 percent capacity and 63 percent of those patients have COVID. Additionally, the hospital reported it doesn’t currently have … Read More

A new blaze has become the largest single fire in California’s recorded history, surpassing last year’s Creek Fire in the Central Valley. The Dixie Fire, named for the road where it started, grew overnight to an area of 725 square miles (1,875 square kilometers) and was just 21% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Fueled … Read More

Thousands of tourists and residents have been evacuated from towns across Greece as wildfires spread across the country. To where desperate officials used ferries and fishing boats to evacuate hundreds of residents and tourists off Greek Islands as wildfires closed in on their shores. Causing a coastguard official to say, “We’re talking about the apocalypse, I don’t know how to … Read More

The Dixie Fire burning in two Northern California counties is now the largest single wildfire in recorded state history, exploding in size overnight as drought-stricken lands continue to fuel the flames. The fire, which has burned for 23 days and forced mass evacuations, razed the Gold Rush town of Greenville on Thursday, destroying 91 buildings and damaging five others. Smoke … Read More

Nineteen rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday morning, sending residents in a number of towns in the Golan Heights and Galilee Panhandle scrambling to shelters. The Hezbollah terror group acknowledged responsibility for the barrage, its heaviest since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Israel Defense Forces said 10 projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense … Read More

Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the country is prepared to engage militarily directly with Iran, amid rising tensions in the region as Iran increases its nuclear capabilities and as hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is sworn into Iran’s presidency. When asked in an interview whether Israel was ready to strike in Iran if need be, Gantz responded simply, “Yes.” But he … Read More

Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that the air force had attacked Lebanon in areas from which rockets were fired during the day at the State of Israel. Israeli fighter jets attacked targets in southern Lebanon early on Thursday morning, the IDF Spokesperson has confirmed. The attacks  by Israel in Lebanon come in response to rockets fired into Israel on Wednesday afternoon, … Read More