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January 5, 2024
Gas prices are falling below $3 per gallon across the country, but California, Washington and Hawaii are still seeing painfully high prices at the pump
July 14, 2023
A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.
July 14, 2023
A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms.
July 11, 2023
These so-called “land hurricanes” are much less common than tornados, but they can be just as deadly. Here’s everything you need to know about derechos.
April 6, 2023
BMW, General Motors, Toyota and Volvo are planning to get used-car buyers in on the subscription model.
May 12, 2022
Property Owners in Uproar Over New Assessments
August 11, 2021
Iowan Nick Bergus remembers being caught off guard by the derecho that pummeled his home state on Aug. 10, 2020, with hurricane-force winds, leaving billions of dollars in damage in its wake.
August 10, 2021
Fifty-seven of Iowa's 99 counties were hit by the storm, which had observed wind gusts at over 120 mph.
February 25, 2021
Jill Morrison has seen how the bust of oil and gas production can permanently scar a landscape. Near her land in north-east Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, where drilling started in 1889, more than 2,000 abandoned wells are seeping brine into the groundwater and leaking potent greenhouse gasses. The problem is getting worse. As the oil and gas industry contracts owing to the pandemic, low prices and the rise of renewables, more than 50 major...
December 29, 2020
Billion-Dollar Disasters: The Costs, in Lives and Dollars, Have Never Been So High Fueled by climate change, extreme weather set records this year, causing close to $50 billion and the loss of at least 188 lives by early October. December 29, 2020 San Miguel County Firefighters battle a brush fire along Japatul Road during the Valley Fire in Jamul, California on Sept. 6, 2020 Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article Update: The final tally, released on Jan. 8, show...