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Hurricane Erin triggers storm alerts in N.C., Virginia as some East Coast beaches shut  Axios Hurricane Erin update: Storm set to bring large waves and flooding to US  NPR Hurricane Erin tracker: North Carolina under state of emergency, beaches ban swimming in Northeast  ABC News Hurricane Erin leads a train of tropical activity. Are more storms coming?  USA Today Heavy rain Wednesday could cause …

What Hurricane Erin will mean for Virginia, Maryland and Delaware beaches  The Washington Post North Carolina’s Outer Banks under Tropical Storm, Storm Surge Warnings as Hurricane Erin spins closer to US  FOX Weather Dare County News  Dare County, NC (.gov) Hurricane Erin expected to grow as it moves across Atlantic  NBC News A weaker Hurricane Erin still a formidable wave and storm surge threat  Yale …

Hurricane Erin Brings Rip Currents Closing Jersey Shore and Rehoboth Beaches  The New York Times Hurricane Erin drives dangerous waves to East Coast as new tropical system brews in its wake  CNN Will Hurricane Erin hit SouthCoast Mass.? Weather service warns of dangerously high surf  yahoo.com Dare County News  Dare County, NC (.gov) National Hurricane Center watching next potential storm: What to expect  USA Today …

Drone video showing a large great white shark near some of Maine’s most popular beaches has prompted police in one coastal town to issue a warning on Tuesday. The warning was issued just weeks after there were multiple great white sightings in an area of Maine where a woman was fatally attacked by a shark five years ago. Scarborough’s marine …

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Reports of a large great white shark near some of Maine’s most popular beaches have prompted police in one coastal town to issue a warning on Tuesday. Scarborough’s marine resource officer got word of the roughly 10- to 12-foot shark (over 3 meters) on Monday, police said. The shark was spotted in the area of Crescent Beach …

The threat posed by flesh-eating bacteria lurking on beaches and in rivers this summer is looming larger by the week, as cases climb into the double digits and deaths are following suit. Vibrio vulnificus eats away at tissues in the skin until they shrivel, turn black, and die, a condition called necrotizing fasciitis, requiring lengthy surgery to strip the dead …

A Northern Beaches kindergartener has tragically died at Northern Beaches Hospital this week after contracting influenza A (the flu). She had been discharged twice from Sydney Children’s Hospital earlier that day. A Northern Beaches Hospital spokesperson confirmed that the tragic death of the child, who we understand to be a six year old girl, will be subject to a Coronial …

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that have resolved the existence of a huge abundance of centimeter-sized pebbles that will stick together and grow into planets around two young stars. “This is potentially enough to build planetary systems larger than our own solar system,” said Katie …