Fall has only just begun, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially since this one may look drastically different than recent years because of El Niño. As CNN reports, this winter will be the first in a few years to feel the effects of the phenomenon, which has a sizable impact on […]
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday. As CNN reports, the move comes as water levels are plummeting for the second consecutive […]
September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya, which have killed more than 11,000 people according to the […]
The ferocity of Lee was unleashed on New England and the Canadian Maritimes over the weekend, ending the nearly two-week journey of the most powerful storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. As AccuWeather reports, the monstrous storm cut power to more than 280,000 electric customers across Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as it roared ashore on Saturday afternoon. […]
Rescuers in Morocco are racing against the clock to find survivors in the rubble and reach isolated communities after Friday’s powerful earthquake. At least 2,497 people are confirmed dead and 2,476 injured, according to state media. Authorities warn the death toll is still expected to rise. As CNN reports, Friday’s disastrous quake is the worst to hit Morocco in […]
As Texas baked in record-breaking heat this summer and a growing drought pushed water levels down, a group of volunteers uncovered something sort of magnificent: new giant dinosaur tracks that are believed to be from around 110 million years ago. Paul Baker, the retail manager at Dinosaur Valley State Park, said in an interview with CNN that […]
In a record-breaking year of disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is announcing nearly $3 billion Monday for communities to build resiliency against climate change-fueled extreme weather. As CNN reports, the new money, which will come from Congress’s bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year, is being announced just as the agency is running out of disaster-relief funds and […]
The diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide significantly reduced symptoms and improved quality of life in people with obesity and the most common form of heart failure in a clinical trial, potentially expanding the already wildly popular drug’s use beyond diabetes and weight loss and offering a new treatment option where few are available. As […]
As an extreme drought grips Mexico, leading to crop losses, a lack of water and higher food prices, the government is trying to bring desperately-needed rain by turning to a controversial technology: cloud seeding. As CNN reports, in mid-July, more than 40% of Mexico was in moderate to extreme drought, according to the national weather service. The country […]
After three straight years of sales growth, Home Depot went into reverse in the first quarter, and sales and profit were down again in the second quarter of fiscal 2023, with reported sales of $42.9 billion, a decrease of 2.0% from the second quarter of fiscal 2022. Comparable sales for the second quarter offiscal 2023 […]