Tag: environment
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...
A small Texas community where everyone survived flooding has sirens that warned them
As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort -- a last-ditch...
Officials are tracking an earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier but say there is no cause for concern
SEATTLE – Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years on Washington's Mount Rainier but say there is no...
Here are some things you can do to be better prepared for major flooding
Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it's too late the best bet is to...
How Americans think the government should respond to natural disasters, according to recent polls
WASHINGTON – Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a...
The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren’t keeping up
WASHINGTON – After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they'd proven they could handle Mother Nature's best punch. Then came this...
Timeline raises questions over how Texas officials handled warnings before the deadly July 4 flood
Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm's way before a flash flood swept...
A deadly 1987 flood scarred the same Texas county that is reeling through another disaster
Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills...
These Texas twins shared made-up games and story time. They died together at Camp Mystic
Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence were happy children who shared the kind of bond twins do, but the 8-year-old girls from Dallas were also different...