Following the current disruption of operations in several courts in Gulf Coast states due to Hurricane Katrina, the Judicial Conference of the United States asked Congress in June 2005 to pass emergency legislation to allow courts to shift court proceedings temporarily into adjacent judicial districts when emergency circumstances require it...
The paper reports that in response to the widespread destruction brought to the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, the 109th Congress completed action on a $10.5 billion emergency supplemental bill (P.L. 109-61, H.R. 3645), as requested by the Administration. The President submitted the request on September 1, 2005. Of the...
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina reaches beyond the borders of the states directly affected by the wind, rain, and floods. Many people, for a variety of reasons, chose to disregard the mandatory evacuation orders issued by state and local officials. In general, evacuation policy is set and enforced by...
WASHINGTON -- Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject. Not only that, warmer temperatures will actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and...
PARIS AFP — Climate scientists have begun to debate whether global warming is producing more powerful storms, after Nargis smashed into Myanmar -- brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall. Nagris wasnt an isolated incident: Hurricane...
World Wildlife Fund and Allianz Foundation for North America Grant Research Awards to 25 Students in Southeastern U.S. WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, including four from Alabama, will join WWF and scientists to examine the southeastern United States' vulnerability to climate change under...
World Wildlife Fund and Allianz Foundation for North America Grant Research Awards to 25 Students in Southeastern U.S. WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, including 17 from Louisiana, will join WWF and scientists examine the southeastern United States' vulnerability to climate change under research...
World Wildlife Fund and Allianz Foundation for North America Grant Research Awards to 25 Students in Southeastern U.S. WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, including four from Mississippi, will join WWF and scientists to examine the southeastern United States' vulnerability to climate change under...
Hurricane Katrina changed voter demographics in a way that "greatly affected the political landscape of both the metropolitan New Orleans area and the state," the University of New Orleans said today in releasing the results of a study by UNO political scientist Edward Chervenak. Chervenak...
How Much will global temperatures rise over the next century? How fast will ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland melt and raise global sea level? Will rising temperature and acidification of the oceans extinguish corals and other endangered marine ecosystems? Will global warming cause hurricanes more powerful than Andrew and...
NEWARK -- It could be the Bay Area's Hurricane Katrina. Or worse. When the Hayward fault has its next major earthquake -- and scientists say it's a matter of when, not if -- the results will be catastrophic. ...
NEWARK -- It could be the Bay Area's Hurricane Katrina. Or worse. When the Hayward fault has its next major earthquake -- and scientists say it's a matter of when, not if -- the results will be catastrophic. ...
NEWARK -IT COULD BE the Bay Area's Hurricane Katrina. Or worse. When the Hayward fault has its next major earthquake -- and scientists say it's a matter of when, not if -- the results will be catastrophic. A new study estimates that...
It could be the Bay Area's Hurricane Katrina. Or worse. When the Hayward fault has its next major earthquake, and scientists say it's a matter of when, not if, the results will be catastrophic. A new study by Risk Management Solutions in Newark...
Race rules; electoral politics in New Orleans, 1965-2006. Liu, Baodong and James M. Vanderleeuw. Lexington Books 2007 165 pages $24.95 Paperback JS1207 Political scientists Liu (U. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) and Vanderleeuw (Lamar U., Texas) place...
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the president of Bangladesh will be among attendees at a five-day meeting that starts Sunday in New Orleans. More than 4,000 soil scientists, crop scientists and agronomists from around the world are expected to meet at the Ernest N. Morial Convention...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Sara Uttech of the American Society of Agronomy, CropScience Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, +1-608-268-4948; suttech@agronomy.org MADISON, Wis., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two years afterHurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, soilscientists and conservation leaders will share lessons learned...
SCIENTISTS tell us that a major earthquake rising from the Hayward fault is likely about every 140 years. The last major temblor from that fault took place on Oct. 21, 1868. It was magnitude 7 and killed 30 people, making it the 12th deadliest shaker in U.S. history. ...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., has given $1.2 million for a two-year project to improve mental health care in New Orleans. The Health and Resilience Project grant is going to the Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit Rand Corp. for the Rapid Evaluation and Action for...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., has given $1.2 million for a two-year project to improve mental health care in New Orleans. The Health and Resilience Project grant is going to the Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit Rand Corp. for the Rapid Evaluation and Action for...
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