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Louisiana district breaks ground on alternative campus
2016-09-23 17:34:00| American School & University
DeSoto Parish project will replace aging portable buildings that housed the program. read more
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Louisiana floods: The water is gone, and the work begins
2016-09-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The stench isn't so bad anymore inside the three-bedroom house in north Baton Rouge where Rodney Davis has been living since the water receded. Volunteers tore out the hallway carpet. They hauled fouled furniture to the curb. And in a few rooms, they removed four feet of soggy drywall, exposing the skeleton of the home's wood frame. But the job is far from done. Ruined walls still hang in a bathroom, the den and the kitchen. And mold threatens to creep toward the ceiling. "I bought a cot,...
Louisiana Flooding Swamps Agriculture
2016-09-10 14:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: When deadly flooding rains swamped southern Louisiana last month, it destroyed lives and property. And it also caused millions of dollars of damage to the state's agriculture industry.
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Deadly Louisiana deluge had a major climate change assist, study finds
2016-09-08 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: The 7.1 trillion gallons of torrential rainfall that a storm dumped on Louisiana in August, leading to a flooding disaster that killed at least 13 people and caused more than $1 billion in damage, had a direct link to human-caused global warming, a new study finds. In short, while these events are still rare on the order of about once every 1,000 years at the local level they used to be far more infrequent, the study, released Wednesday, concludes. Scientists studying the storm using readings...
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Louisiana Flooding: Damage to State At Least $8.7 Billion, Governor Says
2016-09-06 02:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Patch: The state of Louisiana suffered more than $8.7 billion in damage from the catastrophic flooding in August and that figure is expected to increase, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. In a letter sent to President Obama dated Sept. 2, Edwards asked that Congress approve $2 billion in federal aid for housing, economic development and infrastructure that he said will be necessary for the state's recovery. The flooding has been called the worst disaster since Hurricane Sandy by the Red Cross. "With FEMA...
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