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Whenever historic homes get flooded, building contractors often feel compelled by government regulations to rip out the water-logged wood flooring, tear down the old plaster walls and install new, flood-resistant materials.
The City of Rochester and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will conduct a series of drone flights to better understand how higher temperatures caused by climate change affect some of the city’s most densely populated areas.
It's not clear why temperature shifts correlated with more heart attacks.
Disaster-prone areas of Australia frequently hit by extreme weather events like floods and fires could soon become uninsurable, experts are warning.
For the homeless, natural disasters prove torturous for more than the obvious fact that it's worse to be outside than inside during a storm.
What does it mean when a natural disaster is described as a "one-in-50-years" or "one-in-100-years" event? Well, not what most people think and that has to change.
Wrapped in fungus, these fall armyworms look like they have been dipped in white. But the white coating is a pathogenic fungus that eats the worm from the inside out.
Parts of Australia are sweating through an extreme heatwave that sweeps across the southeast. Heatwaves come to represent an existential threat to Australian suburbs.
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