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The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American multinational news media company and the flagship namesake property of CNN Worldwide, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded on June 1, 1980, by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN is the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Tsunami advisory lifted after Japan earthquake but warnings for potential stronger quake issued
The Japanese government has warned of a slightly heightened risk of a megaquake in the next week after a strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s northeastern coast on Monday
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Emergency planners around the country are about to lose access to a critical hurricane evacuation planning tool
FEMA’s hurricane‑planning tool HURREVAC may become temporarily inaccessible due to a stalled contract renewal, raising concerns among emergency managers as hurricane season nears, though FEMA insists service will continue uninterrupted.
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The disaster-prone Philippines invested billions in flood control. Then officials looted the funds
Torrential downpours and deadly flooding in disaster-prone Philippines are not new. Revelations in recent months that politicians, officials and contractors had looted billions of dollars from a nationwide program supposed to mitigate their effects
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How the world’s most elderly country is fighting heat in a deadly double crisis
The alarm device carried by certain elderly people is part of a government push in Japan to combat a deadly double emergency: the collision of the country’s climate crisis and its aging population.
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This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why
This summer, in particular, has been defined by a tragic surge in deadly flash floods across the United States, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world.
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Opinion: Why there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster
"The word 'natural' implies these events are entirely out of our control, thereby absolving us of the responsibility to prepare and reduce risk from natural hazards."
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This hurricane season is confounding experts and defying forecasts. What the heck is going on?
It's early September - what should be the busiest stretch of hurricane season. Forecasters predicted this one was going to be bad: storm after storm, the most bullish forecasts on record.
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Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke linked to increased risk of dementia diagnosis, new study finds
New research links the long-term exposure of this wildfire smoke to brain health, suggesting that it greatly increases risk of dementia compared with other sources of air pollution.

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