Desperate French farmers counted the cost Friday of several nights’ of frost this week which threaten to decimate grape harvests in some of the country’s best-known and prestigious wine-producing regions.
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The Cincinnati Insurance Company is asking a federal judge to declare that it has no duty to defend or indemnify the Electric Reliability Council of Texas in connection with lawsuits over power outages during Winter Storm Uri.
Read moreLonger droughts and spotty rainfall are a recipe for water shortage — something already being seen throughout much of the American West.
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Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb held within permafrost, new research showed Monday.
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Rescuers were hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment Monday after torrential rains caused multiple disasters on remote eastern Indonesian islands as well as in East Timor.
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Much of northwest Europe is basking in unusually warm weather on Wednesday, prompting many people to throw caution to the wind despite a worrying uptick in coronavirus cases in parts of the continent.
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A string of deadly tornadoes roared through Alabama on Thursday, toppling trees, demolishing homes and knocking out power to thousands, part of a broad swath of violent weather sweeping across the Deep South. At least five fatalities and an unknown number of injuries were reported.
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Heavy rainfall was forecast to ease across Australia’s east coast but floodwaters will linger for days across New South Wales state where 15,000 people were nervously waiting on Tuesday for potential orders to evacuate.
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Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain continues to inundate the country’s east coast.
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The bright side? Below-average precipitation also means less flooding is likely, especially in the Midwest.
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Using Europe’s ALMA telescope, researchers measured wind speeds three times faster than the strongest tornado winds on Earth.
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The Weather Channel will face claims it tracked users’ locations and sold the data for profit.
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Opposing Texas’ top Republican officials, the state’s House speaker stonewalled a Senate-drafted bill that sought to waive $16 billion in winter storm energy surge pricing.
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On Wednesday, a special World Meteorological Organization committee will discuss whether the hurricane season should be moved a couple of weeks earlier.
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Houston-based CenterPoint Energy was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit from the daughter of a man who died in last month’s winter storm because he was unable to use his respirator due to power outages. The utility company is accused of mismanaging electricity allocation.
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Researchers have designed a new climate model incorporating the intermingling effects of greenhouse gases and urban design to predict the impact of new buildings and municipal works projects.
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CPS Energy accuses the Electric Reliability Council of Texas of overcharging billions of dollars during last month’s winter storm.
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Downpours triggering flooding that destroyed homes and bridges and set off mass evacuations on multiple islands this week are also an example of the more intense rainstorms officials and climate scientists say are occurring more frequently as the planet warms.
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Heavy rains prompted evacuations over fears of a dam breach on the Hawaiian island of Maui and officials asked people to not to return to their homes on Tuesday because flood advisories were still in effect.
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In a flashback to his 2018 blockbuster Senate campaign, the former Texas congressman has been barnstorming communities across the state while livestreaming his welfare checks with seniors, rallying donations for storm victims and delivering pallets of water from his pickup truck.
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