Florida is dealing with another day of rain and devastating flash flooding despite already reeling from historic rainfall that has left entire neighborhoods underwater. Six million people remain under a flood watch through Friday evening across southern Florida, including metro areas of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and Naples. Thus far, scattered […]
Severe storms are producing flooding at a higher frequency and squeezing out more rain. What’s happening? According to a recent report from the World Weather Attribution group, an overheating planet made storms in the U.K. and Ireland last fall and winter nearly 20% more intense, or about 10 times more likely. Attribution science tries to […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Nestled on Nolensville Pike is Nashville Venezuela Food, which aims to share its restaurant’s Latin flavors with the community. It’s been there for years — despite a fire destroying the interior this week. For those just passing by, it may seem like nothing more than a burned-out restaurant. However, for Isaac […]
HONOLULU – The fiftieth state of the country could be facing another significant wildfire season, just a year after enduring the worst natural disaster in its history. The National Interagency Coordination Center warns of significant fire potential persisting throughout the Hawaiian Islands into the fall, particularly on the leeward sides of mountains, where wildfires could […]
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The vision of Mikey’s Total Car Care began back in 2016 when the owner, Michael Chavez, started the business out of his garage in Falcon and soon moved to a permanent building to keep up with demand. Roxanne Nelson joined the team in 2018, working as the office manager and helping customers […]
Mars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth does, according to a new study. This could imperil exploratory missions to the Red Planet, but also provide insight into how the inner solar system formed. Asteroids constitute the biggest threat from space to our planet — the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, for example, […]
The famous eruption that shot fountains of lava high into the sky on the island of Hawaiʻi in 2018 is teaching scientists what volcanoes are capable of. The unique series of 12 outbursts, which destroyed at least 700 homes and displaced more than 2,000 people, could represent a whole new explosive volcanic mechanism. “A cool […]
May 22—bluefield, va. — Acrid smoke kept rising Tuesday as motorists slowed to see the ruins left by a fire which destroyed much of a former foundry the town of Bluefield, Va. was planning to use for economic development. The blaze at 1701 Virginia Avenue was reported around 5:45 p.m. Monday. Units of the Bluefield, […]
Russia is increasingly using “glide bombs” – cheap but highly destructive ordnance – to advance its offensive in Ukraine. More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near Kharkiv. Warning: You may find some of the […]
The city of Houston on Saturday opened new distribution centers to give out water as around 500,000 customers remained without power following severe storms blamed in the deaths of seven people in the region. Houston was forecast to reach a high of 90 degrees Saturday as the city and Harris County recovers from tornadoes and […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — When he heard that devastating floods hit his village in northern Afghanistan last week, farmer Abdul Ghani rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives. When he got home, he found out that his wife and three children had perished in the deluge. Two of his sons survived but […]
HONOLULU (AP) — As Maui continues to recover from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, Hawaii officials are looking at preventing another similar disaster ahead of what is expected to be a dry, fire-prone season, Gov. Josh Green said Friday in proclaiming Wildfire Mitigation and Risk Reduction Preparedness Month. The Aug. 8, […]