Tag: Extreme Weather

A skunk with black and white fur explores green vegetation near a tree.
  • Outdoors Outdoors

'Really cute' plains spotted skunk could gain endangered status across the Great Plains

Aerial view of a residential neighborhood with houses lining a street and a lake nearby.
  • Business Business

Florida approves homeowners insurance cuts at 4 carriers, easing costs for 62,000 policies

Cracked, dry earth with patches of grass and a small puddle of water.
  • Outdoors Outdoors

Oklahoma is in 'bad shape' as flash droughts dry ponds and push wildfire danger higher

A beach in Orange County California has a wall of eroding sand as beachgoers use the beach
  • Home Home

California OKs emergency sand pull from Santa Ana River as Orange County coast erodes

A fire on the side of a mountain with burned grass
  • Tech Tech

In Italy, wildfire and drought are driving families off land farmed for 500 years

Solar panels installed on the roof of a building with trees in the background.
  • Home Home

Los Angeles resident asks if solar and one Powerwall can survive a quake blackout, but math says no

Two people walking across a bridge after a flood in Nepal.
  • Tech Tech

Nepal's deadly floods show what happens when climate aid programs are slashed

Rice plants with grains under a blue sky and scattered clouds.
  • Food Food

Japan's heat-resistant rice gives farmers hope as 'cruelly hot days' threaten its staple crop

A field of harvested rice stubble surrounded by greenery and distant trees.
  • Tech Tech

Forecasters say record El Niño could bring drought to Asia, put global food security at risk

Volunteers sort and package canned goods in cardboard boxes.
  • Food Food

Los Angeles food bank stocks 1,000 disaster packs as California braces for El Niño

Two panels of solar cells extend from a spacecraft in space
  • Tech Tech

UK study says silicon solar cells could cut satellite power costs by up to 90%

Water stains run down a white wall, with visible vertical lines and a black frame at the top.
  • Home Home

What looked like a leak in an Ireland bedroom may actually be a dew point problem

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