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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the nation’s overgrown forests with each passing year.
Potential effects include increased light and air pollution, habitat degradation for endangered species such as the Florida panther, and waste spills.
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Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has "joked" about.
A federal judge on Tuesday nixed the operative part of a temporary restraining order he imposed on the Trump administration, accepting the government’s assurances that money at issue in a lawsuit isn’t at risk of being used to pay for the new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.
Alligator Alcatraz is in Florida, home to dangerous animals that can harm you, like gators, sharks, bears, panthers, snakes and spiders.
Blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to keep the Everglades wild
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A development called Sea Country, near the neighborhood that was recently ordered to evacuate during a wildfire, is close to becoming the fist Firewise community in Waianae, said Andria Tupola, a resident who also represents the coast on the Honolulu City Council.
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Videos from the opening tour of Donald Trump's new detention centre in Florida reveal flooding near electrics, raising concerns that the eight-day construction compromised its readiness, before detainees arrived at the facility.
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The county is looking at modifying another agreement related to housing undocumented immigrants at its correctional facility
With temperatures rising worldwide, scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere summer is getting increasingly dangerous for both players and spectators. Some suggest that FIFA may have to consider adjusting the soccer calendar to reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses.