We rearrange our travel patterns because of highway expansions, and the new driving that results is what we call induced travel. And research has shown that because of induced travel, congestion ...

When a solar-powered house needs more electricity than the solar panels can produce, that house can use electricity from the power grid to help keep the lights on. The homeowner pays for that ...

Floods and mudslides may hit parts of Central America and southeast Mexico over the next few days, but the hurricane risk ...

A 2023 study suggested that cats fed vegan diets were healthier than their carnivorous counterparts. But that study has been criticized for methodology problems. Most notably, some of the supposedly ...

When fire rages across a landscape, wood can go up in flames. But dirt does not burn, so some people are drawing inspiration from age-old earthen building methods to help create more fire-resilient ...

Milton is the tenth major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast since 2017. Prior to ...

Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer ...

Milton’s 11% increase in winds because of human-caused climate change likely made it nearly twice as destructive.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, large numbers of people work in dangerous, unregulated mines, digging for cobalt – a mineral used in the batteries found in phones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

One of the fastest-intensifying Atlantic hurricanes on record, Milton is on track to slam into Florida's west coast with ...

Milton will spawn torrential rains, inland floods, destructive winds, tornadoes, and a potentially catastrophic storm surge.

FL Division of Emergency Management (@FLSERT) October 7, 2024 A Hurricane Warning and a Storm Surge Warning are up for much ...