Texas’ Republican governor joined Biden as he toured sites in Houston and the president agreed to add more counties to a disaster declaration so their residents can qualify for federal aid.
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Energy executives were among those questioned by Texas lawmakers on Thursday as officials try to sort out why so many people were left in the dark for days amid freezing temperatures.
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Experts say power companies need to be forced, not asked, to harden their systems against increasingly powerful storms.
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he lead plaintiff in a class action claims her bill spiked from $200 to $9,340 despite power being out for days during last week’s winter storm.
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The family of an 11-year-old Texas boy found dead at their home after the power went out as temperatures dropped to single digits in the midst of an arctic freeze sued the state’s power grid operator and another company for $100 million.
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Power has been restored across Texas and the deep chill from an arctic front is lifting. But the crisis is not over as Texans focus on getting water and repairing homes ravaged by exploding pipes.
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Hundreds of thousands of Texans have power again, but a second winter storm continues to stress the grid.
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There are 35 types of fruits and vegetables grown in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Freezing temperatures may financially ruin some of the region’s growers because they cannot get insurance for their crops.
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A new study suggests that a gene variant affecting skeletal muscle function may have protected humans against lower temperatures as they migrated from Africa to Europe more than 50,000 years ago.
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Texas grid managers say the current best-case scenario is that widespread power outages could become shorter in duration by Thursday.
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A 7-year-old boy has died in eastern Switzerland after a homemade igloo collapsed on him and his father, police said Wednesday.
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Texas electric grid operators and transmission companies say it could still be days before power is fully restored after a brutal winter storm.
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At least three people were killed when a tornado tore through a seaside town in North Carolina, one of many wild and deadly impacts from a sprawling blast of winter weather across the United States.
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A mass of arctic air is besieging the state, bringing snow and freezing rain that has knocked power plants offline and frozen wind turbines.
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Workers at the Eiffel Tower used a blowtorch to melt the ice collecting on its surfaces and snow was blocking roads and halting trains and school buses Wednesday across northern France.
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After a huge mass of rock and ice crashed down a mountain in the Himalayas this weekend, killing dozens with 165 still missing, experts say that the disaster underscores the fragility of a landscape where the lives of millions are being altered by climate change.
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A deep winter freeze gripping the Netherlands is reawakening the national obsession with skating on frozen canals.
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A snow survey showed recent storms made up an enormous deficit in terms of California’s water supply needs but also
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On what might have been in a snow day before the Zoom age, the New Jersey Supreme Court waded into a lawsuit that says property owners have a duty to keep sidewalks safe even while a storm is still raging.
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Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change.
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