High-speed winds during a thunderstorm may cause trees around an electric grid to crash into the distribution system feeders causing an outage in that area. Currently, most utility companies diminish such accidents by scheduling regular tree-trimming operations. This effort is …
Aerosols in the atmosphere produced from human activities do indeed directly affect a hurricane or tropical cyclone, but not in a way many scientists had previously believed – in fact, they tend to weaken such storms, according to a new …
Authorities believe a person has died after falling from a building on the Texas A&M University campus. Texas A&M police say officers were called to the scene of an unknown medical emergency at 6:01 a.m. Saturday next to the Mitchell …
Sept.13 marks the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Ike on the Texas coast. Despite its Category 2 ranking when it hit, Ike caused more than $30 billion in damage and the lessons learned from it could be crucial …
Four workers were hurt, three critically, after a barn frame collapsed Saturday at an $80 million Texas A&M University equestrian complex that’s under construction. The collapse happened on university property about a mile from the main campus, Texas A&M spokesman …