Both Firefighters and the Pentagon can benefit if they work together to catch forest fires early AFP via Getty Images After years of experimentation, America is edging closer to formalizing how the Pe...
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A Fresh Reading Of Exxon’s Predictions Of Global Warming And Climate Change From 40 Years Ago.
ExxonMobil gas station in February 2022 in Houston, Texas. Getty Images An Exxon study done in 1982 focused on global warming by increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Remarkably, thirty-seven yea...
Climate change is making some homes too costly to insure
Firefighters pull up to a burning house during the Kincade fire in Healdsburg, California, on Oct. 27, 2019. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images As climate change threatens the U.S. with more natural di...
Flash Floods Swamp St. Louis In Latest Bout Of Extreme U.S. Weather
Topline Flash floods inundated St. Louis streets as the city broke the record for daily rainfall in just five hours Monday night, as the U.S. continues to experience extreme storms, heat, and fires th...
With wildfires raging once more, here’s how 90210 star Shannen Doherty beat her insurer to fix her fire-ravaged home
With wildfires raging once more, here’s how 90210 star Shannen Doherty beat her insurer to fix her fire-ravaged home With this year shaping up to be the worst on record for U.S. wildfires, knowi...
Europe suffers from deadly heat wave as wildfires displace thousands
Paramedics help a patient into an ambulance during a heat wave in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, July 18, 2022. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images A deadly heat wave in western Europe has triggered...
Wildfires Tear Through Europe As Deadly Heat Wave Continues
Topline Temperatures are hitting record-breaking highs throughout Europe, with the United Kingdom issuing heat advisories for the coming week and firefighters struggling to contain wildfires in France...
Here’s How California Is Protecting Yosemite’s Famous Sequoia Trees From Wildfires
Topline Fire crews in Yosemite National Park are taking extreme measures this week to protect the park’s famous more than 500 giant sequoia trees as the Washburn wildfire continues to grow and t...
Wind And Solar Production Grow As AI Fights Wildfires And Tesla Stares Down Its Chinese Rivals
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Last w...
Disaster-relief ETF launches in time for hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season is in full swing, and a new exchange-traded fund that focuses on disaster recovery has launched just in time for it. The first-of-its-kind Procure Disaster Recovery Strat...
Western U.S. Drought Approaches Historic Levels
Hurricanes and tornadoes get a lot of attention and rightfully so. They can be significant stressors on our socio-economic fabric in the United States. They are also more episodic and “buzzworthy” eve...
More Than 3 Billion Lives Now Threatened By Global Warming, UN Warns
A young climate activist wears an oxygen mask at a demonstration protesting deforestation in … [+] Colombo, Sri Lanka. AFP via Getty Images Human-caused climate change is now dealing damage to e...
How Suburban Sprawl’s Single-Family Home Zoning Limits Housing Supply
America’s suburbs are sprawling again. Last year, single family housing starts rose to 1.123 million, the highest since 2006, according to the National Association of Home Builders, however, opt...
Judge blasts PG&E as ‘continuing menace’ over wildfires
People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Governor Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar pan...
Biden administration announces plan to confront worsening wildfires
US President Joe Biden (C) and First Lady Jill Biden (R) tour a neighborhood destroyed by the Marshall Fire alongside Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle (L) in Louisville, Colorado, January 7, 2022. Sau...
U.S. Natural Disasters Cost $145 Billion In 2021 — 3rd-Costliest Year On Record
Topline Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and deep freezes made 2021 one of the costliest — and deadliest — years for natural disasters in recent U.S. history, a federal report found Monday, as scientis...