Tag: environment
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...
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...
