Atlantic Hurricane Season Ends with 14 Named Storms
MIAMI (AP) — An Atlantic hurricane season that had 14 named storms officially ended on Wednesday, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even as others around Florida and Puerto Rico...
View ArticleUS Storm Brings Tornadoes, Blizzard-Like Conditions; 2 Dead
DALLAS (AP) — A destructive storm marched across the United States, spawning tornadoes that touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, where the deaths of a young boy and his mother were...
View ArticleNOAA: Ian, Drought Supercharged US Weather Extremes in 2022
DENVER (AP) — Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18 climate extremes that caused at least $1 billion in damage each, totaling more than $165...
View ArticleCalifornia Storms Have Farmers Rushing to Avoid Crop Shortfall
California farmers are facing costly damages from weeks of severe storms that may trigger more expensive US fruits and vegetables in a time of massive food inflation. “The numbers are going to be...
View ArticleRain Pounds Northern New Zealand; Further Flooding Expected
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Auckland prepared for another round of flooding as rain battered northern New Zealand’s Northland region, which declared an emergency Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of...
View ArticleStorms Upend One of North America’s Largest Tire Plants
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Production at a large north Mississippi tire plant has ground to a halt in the wake of a damaging tornado, pausing operations at one of Goodyear’s largest production facilities in...
View ArticleJapan Earthquake of Magnitude 6.5 Injures Some, Damages Buildings
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck on Friday off Japan’s western prefecture of Ishikawa, authorities said, as media reported some buildings had collapsed while people were injured. Chief...
View ArticleAuthorities: 3 Killed in Crash After Highway Shooting, 2-State Chase
SHELBY, N.C. (AP) – Three people have died in a truck after someone in it fired at a different vehicle in South Carolina and then the truck crashed into a North Carolina house while trying to get away...
View ArticleInspectors Clear Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge as Safe After it Was Hit by Crane
ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) – A crane being towed on a barge hit the main span of the Mackinac Bridge, although an official says inspectors found no significant damage to the span linking the Michigan’s...
View ArticleAP Reveals Problematic Dams in US, but Not New Jersey
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) __ A more than two-year investigation by The Associated Press identified scores of problematic dams nationwide, but New Jersey is excluded from the analysis because the state did not...
View ArticleNatural Disasters Led to $250B in Global Losses Last Year
Extreme storms and other natural disasters cost the world about $250 billion of losses last year, with less than half that amount actually covered by insurers, according to data compiled by Munich Re....
View ArticleHelping Maui Recover from Flames and Wildfire Prevention Top Hawaii Lawmaker...
Hawaii lawmakers are due to convene this week for the first time since the burning of historic Lahaina awakened the state to the deadly and costly threat posed by wildfires in an age of climate change....
View ArticleLondoners Unprepared for ‘Lethal’ Climate Risks, Report Says
London isn’t ready to deal with climate risks including flooding and overheating, according to an independent review of government measures. An interim report commissioned by the city’s mayor concluded...
View ArticleSecondary Perils Drive Global Insured Losses to Estimated $123B in 2023:...
Non-peak (secondary) perils and record-setting weather and climate events drove global insured losses from natural catastrophes to an estimated $123 billion in 2023, the fourth consecutive year to...
View ArticleUSGS: Nearly 75% of U.S. Could Experience A Damaging Earthquake
Nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, a recent U.S. Geological Survey report shows. A USGS-led team of more than 50 scientists and engineers in the latest USGS National...
View ArticleKentucky Supreme Court Says Medical Experts May be Needed, Even in Negligence...
When a baseball umpire, well-traveled in college baseball conferences, went to a hospital for X-rays on his surgically repaired ankle in 2015, a hospital attendant pushing the ump’s wheelchair...
View ArticleRoof Claim for Damage by Vultures Fails on Ordinary, Not Expert, Meaning of...
How many vultures are required and how long must they be present to create an infestation? The Pennsylvania-based owner of a Maryland commercial building has learned that the answer, at least for...
View ArticleCalifornia Braces for Floods and Snow as Big Storm Nears Coast
The first of two large moisture streams are coming ashore in Northern California and will spread rain further south through Thursday. Northern California will likely receive 3 to 5 inches (7.6 to 12.7...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Landmark Climate Disclosure Laws Challenged by Business Groups
Major U.S. business groups sued California on Tuesday seeking to overturn the state’s new sweeping climate disclosure laws that require companies to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions and...
View Article‘Firehose’ of Flooding Rains Bring Landslide Risk to Hollywood
The Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica Mountains face life-threatening landslides and flash flooding on Monday as an intense atmospheric river blankets Southern California. “We have an atmospheric...
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