Blackouts in Extreme Weather Drive Demand for Cleaner Backup Power August 23, 2024 By Alexa St. John Software engineer Kenna Ofoegbu in Houston, Texas tries hard to keep his three kids cool during the summer and that...
Atlantic Enters Its Most Active Season for Storms: Weather Watch August 23, 2024 By Brian K Sullivan The Atlantic has entered the most dangerous part of its six-month storm season — after months of heat building in...
Ford Slows EV Plans, Delaying Pickup and Axing Three-Row SUV, to Cut Costs August 23, 2024 By Nora Eckert, Nathan Gomes and Ben Klayman Ford Motor on Wednesday said it was killing a planned three-row electric SUV and pushing back a new electric version...
Is Heat Causing Branches to Fall Off Trees? Scientists Aren’t Sure August 22, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across...
Texas Grid Faces Biggest Test of Summer With Extreme Heat August 20, 2024 By Naureen S. Malik Texas is facing its biggest test of the summer this week to keep the power on — and air conditioners...
Study Urges Rethinking of Disaster Management in Era of Compounding Events July 19, 2024 By Allen Laman A new report warns that compounding natural disasters introduce new, interconnected, and complex risk scenarios — and points to a...
The ‘Greenhouse Effect’: How an Oft-Touted Climate Solution Threatens Agricultural Workers July 18, 2024 By Melina Walling and Dorany Pineda MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work...
Experts: Atlantic Hurricane Season Potential on Par with 2005, 1995 June 18, 2024 By Don Jergler Atlantic hurricane risk in the U.S. continues to increase “substantially as oceanic and atmospheric conditions reach a point where tropical...
Health Costs of 6 U.S. Climate Disasters Totals $14B November 8, 2011 By Deborah Zabarenko Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other U.S. disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion...
Climate Experts Say La Nina May Return in Fall August 9, 2011 Climate experts say the weather pattern that helped bring record snowfall to the Reno-Lake Tahoe region last winter could return...