Earthquakes and other natural hazards are a risk everywhere. How people are preparing around the world
Disasters can happen anywhere.
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2023
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News tagged with federal agencies
Environmental groups renew legal challenge of massive Denver Water reservoir expansion
A years-long legal battle over the expansion of one of the reservoirs holding Denver's water supply entered a new chapter this week when environmental groups asked a judge to invalidate the federal permits underlying the ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2023
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Drenched but alive, Floridians survey hurricane damage
Residents in the US state of Florida on Thursday cleaned up after rain and flooding caused by Hurricane Idalia wreaked havoc before the storm weakened and headed out to sea.
Environment
Aug 31, 2023
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Amid new spills and stink, US senators request millions more to fix Tijuana sewage crisis
California's senators are urging Congress for $310 million in new emergency spending to fix the rampant sewage pollution that repeatedly flows from Tijuana to San Diego's South County shoreline.
Environment
Aug 31, 2023
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Powerful Hurricane Idalia pummels Florida, churns on to Georgia
Idalia roared across Florida Wednesday as a dangerous and powerful hurricane, bringing potentially catastrophic storm surge to coastal communities and knocking out power to thousands as the storm swept through the southeastern ...
Environment
Aug 31, 2023
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Economist group argues for scientific experimentation in environmental policymaking
Environmental regulators and other organizations should do more scientific experimentation to inform natural resource policy, according to an international group of economists that includes University of Wyoming researchers.
Economics & Business
Aug 17, 2023
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Countering false and omitted evidence of historically heterogeneous western US dry forests and mixed-severity fires
Evidence of forest structure and fires in pre-industrial dry forests—major forests covering ~26 million hectares (64 million acres) of the western U.S.—provides an essential historical baseline. Dry forests are dominated ...
Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government's initial response when disasters strike islands
Wildfires destroyed the Hawaiian tourist town of Lahaina on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving many of its roughly 13,000 residents homeless. Fires also burned in other areas on Maui, Hawaii's second-largest island, and its Big ...
Environment
Aug 11, 2023
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Study reveals successful strategies for removing invasive caimans from Florida Everglades
The spectacled caiman, a species native to Central and South America, has been established in Florida since the 1970s. The pet trade and crocodilian farming industries, escapes and deliberate releases made it possible for ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2023
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How wildfires are threatening Colorado water supplies—and costing a lot of money
The Colorado River this spring ran high, fast and so full of sediment pushed downstream from wildfire burn scars that the water treatment plant in Hot Sulphur Springs couldn't keep up.
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2023
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