The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has launched an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices around severe weather events, focusing on the company’s Illinois warehouse where six people died in a tornado strike last winter. The committee is seeking documents and communication records from Amazon within the next two weeks, according to a letter signed […]
We’ve barely made it through the first three months of 2022, and it’s already a horrible year for wildfires. As CNN reports, more than 14,781 separate wildfires have scorched over half a million acres as of this week, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, the largest number of fires year-to-date the agency has recorded […]
The climate over the past few thousand years has been unusually stable, helping bring about the rise of modern civilization. However, ice core studies reveal that the “normal” climate for Earth is one of frequent extreme jumps – like a light switch flicking on and off. So it is incorrect to think that global warming […]
If you’ve been watching the weather news lately, you’ve already noticed that tornado season is here, and it’s wreaking havoc across the country. You may also have seen “storm chasers,” or “spotters,” out trying to capture the latest event on film. Which leads one to wonder, “what do storm spotters look for?” According to the […]
The United Nations wants to make sure every person on Earth can receive early warnings ahead of disastrous weather events. It set a goal of hitting that target within five years in an announcement last week. Early warning systems are needed urgently to save lives as climate change makes extreme weather even worse, UN officials said. Such […]
The floods that devastated the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales during February and March have been completely unprecedented. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), the amounts of rainfall that have fallen over a short period are staggering, causing devastating flooding to whole communities and the death of 22 people. The repair […]
With tornado season in full-swing, it’s worthwhile to look back at the United States’ impressive tornado history. According to the NOAA, the U.S. averages over 1,000 tornadoes a year, far more than any other country in the world. Some of those tornadoes can be exceedingly deadly and destructive, hitting a 4 or 5 on the Enhanced […]
A massive reservoir known as a boating mecca dipped below a critical threshold last week raising new concerns about a source of power that millions of people in the U.S. West rely on for electricity. Lake Powell, which covers northern Arizona and up into southern Utah, fell to below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters). This puts […]
Love it or hate it, Daylight Savings Time may just be here to stay. As Reuters reports, the U.S. Senate has just passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, which would end, once and for all, the sleep depriving twice-annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating […]
July 2021 was Earth’s hottest July since global record-keeping began in 1880, 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.67°F) above the 20th-century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) reported. Since July is also the hottest month of the seasonal cycle, that meant that July 2021 was “more likely than not the warmest month on record for the globe […]