July 29, 2019
Stories tagged "extreme weather"
July 10, 2019
U.N. Says Climate Disasters Strike Weekly, NOAA Says Names U.S. States Most At Risk
By Alexandra Patel and Monica Medina According to a warning from top United Nations officials, climate-related disasters are now happening at a rate of one per week. Last weekend, in an interview with the Guardian, Mami Mizutori, the U.N. secretary-general’s...July 9, 2019
Flash Floods Pound DC Just As Trump Denies Greatest Environmental Threat of All
Yesterday, nearly a month’s worth of rain fell in just one hour in the Washington D.C. metro area–making it one of the area’s top 10 wettest July days ever recorded. As the Washington Post reported, “The sheets of rain, with nowhere to run off,...July 1, 2019
Man and Machine Chase Tornadoes Across the U.S.
By Miro Korenha and Alexandra Patel As tornadoes increase in range and frequency across the United States, a group of scientists has been using drones to better understand tornadoes and forecast them in an effort to save lives. Project TORUS has mobilized over 50...May 6, 2019
Mississippi River: Great Flood of 2019
Flooding on the Mississippi River has now exceeded the “historic” 1993 flood, as Accuweather reported that the river officially crested at 22.70 feet at Rock Island, Illinois on Thursday night, which broke the previous record of 22.63 feet that was set on...March 21, 2019
Tweet of the Week: David Axelrod fact checks Andrew Wheeler’s climate denial
“Most of the threats from climate change are 75 years out.” -EPA Director Andrew Wheeler#tellthefarmershttps://t.co/KbG98FgzrU — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 20, 2019 As ABC News reported, in remarks in Washington to mark World Water Day, EPA...March 13, 2019
Winter Going Out Like a Lion: With Avalanches and A Major March Blizzard
Colorado has experienced eight avalanches so far this winter killing 22 people, and another major blizzard is walloping the state today. Coloradoan.com reports that, according to Colorado’s Avalanche Information Center Director Ethan Greene, this year a...February 20, 2019
The storm that hit FEMA
E&E News reported yesterday that the Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC), the federal advisory panel that’s supposed to provide scientific information to the National Flood Insurance Program to ensure that flood insurance rate maps are accurate, is...January 18, 2019
Environmental Risks Take Top Three Spots
Environmental risks — extreme weather, failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and natural disasters — are the top three most likely risks according to the 2019 survey of 1,000 experts from government, business, academia, and non-governmental...April 4, 2018