Tag: environment
The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
After my birth, my mother became allergic to the world. That’s the only way I knew how to put it. So many things could...
EPA shutters its scientific research arm, with hundreds of scientists expected to be impacted
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that it is eliminating its scientific division, known as the Office of Research...
Steve Miller Band cancels tour, saying extreme weather is a safety concern
Classic rocker Steve Miller has canceled his U.S. tour because he said severe weather including extreme heat and unpredictable flooding poses a danger to...
Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says
The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an...
A look inside a lab making the advanced fuel to power growing US nuclear energy ambitions
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Near signs that warn of radioactive risk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a half-dozen workers from the nuclear power company...
How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
GENEVA – Soccer had a fierce reckoning with heat at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States — a sweltering...
System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says
ORLANDO, Fla. – A drenching weather system moving across Florida on Tuesday wasn't even a tropical anything but has the potential to develop into...
Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon
KLAMATH, Calif. – As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a...
Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population
Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due...
Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing
GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. – Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a...
