In a State Used to Hurricanes and Flooding, Louisiana Is Battling an Unprecedented Wildfire Season September 19, 2023 By Sara Cline BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana, typically one of the wettest states in the country, is on fire. In communities...
Sydney Blanketed by Smoke for a 4th Day Due to Hazard Reduction Burning September 15, 2023 SYDNEY (AP) — Sydney was blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day on Thursday due to hazard...
FEMA Releases Largest Update to its Mobile App in a Decade July 1, 2022 By Drew Costley The Federal Emergency Management Agency is releasing the largest update to its mobile application in a decade, the agency announced...
Fire and Rain: West to Get More One-Two Extreme Climate Hits April 4, 2022 By Seth Borenstein The one-two punch of nasty wildfires followed by heavy downpours, triggering flooding and mudslides, will strike the U.S. West far...
Biden to Survey Wildfire Damage, Make Case for Spending Plan September 14, 2021 By Aamer Madhani and Alexandra Jaffe WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will promote his administration’s use of a wartime law to aid in wildfire...
Drought Woes in Dry US West Raise July 4 Fireworks Fears June 28, 2021 By Lindsay Whitehurst SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Many Americans aching for normalcy as pandemic restrictions end are looking forward to traditional Fourth...
Insurance at Peril For Many in California’s Risky Fire Areas June 25, 2021 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California’s wildfire season looms, threatening once again to break records for destruction, tens of thousands...
California Targets Urgent Projects as Wildfire Season Looms April 15, 2021 By Adam Beam and Don Thompson OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California is in such an urgent race with another devastating wildfire season that officials began soliciting...
2020 Hit Temperature Record, Rounded Off Hottest Decade – EU Climate Service January 8, 2021 By Kate Abnett and Matthew Green BRUSSELS/LONDON — Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as...
Longest Arctic Sailing Season Tops Off a Year of Climate Disasters December 15, 2020 By Anna Shiryaevskaya, Laura Millan Lombrana and Olga Tanas Thinning ice in the Arctic Ocean made this year’s navigation season for natural gas tankers the longest on record, the...