A fire whirl shoots into the sky as flames from the Hog fire jump highway 36 about 5 miles from Susanville, California on July 20, 2020 Catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, have enjoyed a perfect storm of conditions that are leading to a banner year. According to the Swiss […] Click here to view original […]

A crew works on plugging an abandoned oil well that North Dakota confiscated in the Little Missouri National Grasslands. States are rushing to spend billions in new federal dollars to plug abandoned oil and gas wells that can leak pollutants into water sources and emit greenhouse gases into the […] Click here to view original

St Émillion is one of many different wines made in and around Bordeaux. Credit: Domenico-de-ga / wiki , CC BY-SA It’s harvest time again for most of Europe’s wine growing regions and grapes are being picked from the UK in the north to Sicily in the south. The grapes […] Click here to view original

Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and White House Infrastructure Coordinator and Senior Advisor to the President Mitch Landrieu announced that as part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, FEMA is making $1.8 billion available for two grant programs designed to help communities […] Click here to view original

Your browser does not support the video element. Atlantic hurricanes are more than twice as likely to rapidly intensify vs. decades ago, a study found. Hurricanes are also rapidly intensifying faster than they used to. The warming Atlantic Ocean is what’s turbocharging hurricanes from puny to powerful. With warmer […] Click here to view original

Sept. 29 was a brutal day for New York City. Torrential rains pounded the five boroughs, with some areas receiving over three inches an hour, and the infrastructure city residents depend on simply could not meet the challenge. The takeaway: New Yorkers are resilient, but our infrastructure is not. […] Click here to view original