Residents of Lahaina were allowed back home Friday for the first time since wildfires killed at least 55 people.
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A major dam in southern Ukraine has collapsed, flooding villages, endangering crops in the country’s breadbasket and threatening drinking water supplies as thousands flee.
A structural engineer’s report issued just last week indicated a wall of a century-old apartment building in Iowa was at imminent risk of crumbling, yet neither the owner nor city officials warned residents of the danger days before the building partially collapsed, leaving three people missing and feared dead.
The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the past half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion.
"Blue Skies" by T.C. Boyle; Livewright (384 pages, $30) ——— In his latest novel, “Blue Skies,” T.C. Boyle comes up with a new variation on the literary principal of Chekhov’s gun: If a character in a Florida story acquires a pet Burmese python, sooner or later that python will eat something it shouldn’t. “Blue Skies” is the 31st work of fiction by Boyle, a longtime California resident who’s ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources earlier this week sent the EPA a request for federal action to take "actions it deems are necessary" to address chemicals at the site.
The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, resulting in a toxic spill and evacuation, has prompted some on social media to point out compar…
Ever since the Feb. 6 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, survivors have gathered outside destroyed houses and apartments, refusing to leave.
The death toll from Monday's 7.8 magnitude catastrophe rose to nearly 21,000.
In California, only about 230,000 homes and other buildings have flood insurance policies — only about 2% of properties.
States and local governments soon will have new flexibility to spend billions of dollars of federal coronavirus relief funds on some things not directly related to the pandemic.
More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations. That's according to a first-of-its-kind survey whose results were released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
While a professional cleaning company visited the site immediately after the Dec. 8 explosion and fire, Marengo Police Chief Ben Gray said, there still are ongoing issues.
New research and technology could help guide Iowa snowplow drivers during white-out conditions and alert them to obstacles, improving driver safety and keeping roads open.
MIAMI — Florida officials estimate there may be more than 50 deaths across eight counties linked to Hurricane Ian. At least 18 of the people who died drowned. Three died when their oxygen machines stopped working due to power outages. The youngest fatality confirmed by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission was a 22-year-old woman in Manatee County. The oldest confirmed death was a ...
Ian is no longer a hurricane. The now-post tropical cyclone has brought heavy rains, flash flooding and high winds to the Carolinas since reaching the coast Friday afternoon. Ian previously left a stretch of the Southwest Florida coast in ruins as a Category 4 and crossed the state as a tropical storm. It later gained strength and became a hurricane, set on hitting South Carolina’s coast. The ...
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One can still see evidence of the lingering damage from the 2020 derecho that flattened millions of acres of crops, crumpled grain bins, leveled sheds, toppled silos and tore off barn roofs.
Three scientific reports say the U.S. experienced more frequent, deadly billion-dollar climate disasters in 2021. At the same time, the nation…
This footage was filmed and produced 14 August 2021. A major earthquake struck western Haiti on Saturday, likely causing high casualties and w…
One impact of climate change is that the number and severity of climate-related disasters is on the rise. With the warming of the planet, several factors combine to make extreme weather more common.
"We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time" by Jose Andres; Anthony Bourdain/Ecco (288 pages, $27.99) ___ On Sept. 29, 2017, Donald Trump was explaining why federal relief to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria was moving so slowly: "This is an island surrounded by water - big water, ocean water." By that time, chef Jose Andres had already been on the ground ...
Many people will likely decide to stay put despite evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Florence. And if history is any guide, they may not be fully thinking through the problems they’ll face in the aftermath.
"Into the Raging Sea" by Rachel Slade; Ecco (391 pages, $27.99) ___ The wrecks are so familiar: The Titanic. The Edmund Fitzgerald. Even the Andrea Gail of "The Perfect Storm." But such maritime tragedies are extraordinarily rare. In fact, when the container ship El Faro sank near the Bahamas in 2015, a casualty of Hurricane Joaquin, it had been 35 years since American shipping suffered such a ...
When can we the people of the United States expect to see the countries that we shipped billions of dollars to for their disasters help us wit…
Massive tornados devastating communities large and small. Flooding impacting several states for months at a time. Threats to the homeland vary…