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An aerial view of rebuilt elevated homes earlier this month along Waveland Beach in Mississippi, an area hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. The catastrophic storm sent an approximately 30-foot-high storm surge into Waveland and destroyed or damaged nearly every home in the town. Nearly 1,400 people died across the Gulf Coast, and it remains the costliest storm in …

The US coast guard announced on Monday that it had seized more than 76,000lbs of illegal drugs off the coast of Florida – marking the largest drug offload in the 110-year history of the maritime law enforcement agency. According to a news release from the branch of the US military, officials offloaded approximately 61,740lbs of cocaine and approximately 14,400lbs of …

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of illegal drugs this summer from boats far out to sea in the Pacific and Caribbean, which the service called its largest-ever haul worth nearly half a billion dollars. The Coast Guard worked with the Department of Defense on these seizures, catching 19 drug-carrying vessels off the …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A US Coast Guard cutter on Monday unloaded a record haul of illegal drugs that, if it had made it to the streets, would represent around 23 million deadly doses of cocaine, the service said. The cutter Hamilton offloaded about 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, around …

A heat wave is expected to set record high temperatures in parts of the West Coast this week, bringing sizzling days and wildfire risks to millions.  Parts of Oregon, California, and Washington are expected to see temperatures near 100°F, with heat warnings in effect until Wednesday evening. “This heat will be dangerous, posing a threat to anyone without effective cooling …

New England Boaters Battle a Coast Guard Plan to Remove Beloved Buoys  The New York Times Coast Guard Delays Controversial Buoy Removal Plan  Nantucket Current U.S. Coast Guard agrees to delay plan to remove navigational buoys  WGME Senator Angus King leads effort to maintain Gulf of Maine navigational buoys  foxbangor.com Press Release: Senator Angus King Leads Effort to Delay Removal of Navigational Buoys in …

A Faroese fisherman’s extraordinary encounter with nature has left the scientific community stunned. Hallur Antoniussen was navigating his vessel Saputi through the icy waters near Carbonear when he spotted something unprecedented: a towering black iceberg rising from the North Atlantic. This massive dark formation, perfectly sculpted and gleaming with an obsidian-like surface, challenged everything experts thought they knew about Arctic ice …

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that was forecast to erupt sometime this year doesn’t look imminent, according to volcanologists who are closely monitoring it. The Axial Seamount is located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s 4,900 feet below the surface of the sea along the Juan de Fuca Ridge. …

Watch Live: Secretive mini space shuttle set for Space Coast launch; late-night sonic boom possible  Orlando Sentinel USSF-36 Mission  SpaceX Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center  Spaceflight Now US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch  spaceforce.mil SpaceX readies for 8th flight of U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle  Spectrum News 13 Source …

Sebastian Kettner fishes on Jennette’s Pier as waves from Hurricane Erin crash ashore in Nags Head, N.C., on Thursday. Allen G. Breed/AP hide caption toggle caption Allen G. Breed/AP Hurricane Erin is slowly moving away from the U.S. eastern seaboard, but not before grazing North Carolina, where the storm cut off some road access in the Outer Banks and brought …