A Stanford analysis shows that strategic investment in burying power lines could shorten blackouts during extreme weather, ...
The stronger the weather event, the more likelihood of power outages. Extreme weather is causing power grids across the country to fail -- sometimes at massive scales -- putting residents at increased ...
Winter could turn cold this season. ERCOT's top meteorologist Chris Coleman predicts above-normal temperatures this winter, but with a “greater-than-average” chance of extreme cold weather events, the ...
NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The Texas electrical grid is still vulnerable to severe weather despite safeguards following a deadly February 2021 deep freeze that brought widespread power outages, the ...
Extreme weather is, by definition, rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves, and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate ...
(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) It’s hot out there and getting hotter. The last few weeks have brought some of the highest temperatures ...
A faded billboard reads 'Go Trump It's time to buy Real Estate!' in 2022 near Palm Desert, California amid a megadrought in the Southwestern United States. Mario Tama/Getty Images Last weekend, the ...
The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, ...
Extreme weather can have negative, minimal, or even positive effects on business performance—creating significant uncertainty about outcomes for those businesses. Financial markets show heightened ...
In response to growing threats from hurricanes and other extreme weather, many refineries have hardened their plants and taken steps to reduce flooding. They’ve also worked to improve communications ...