The sign outside Tom Hermes's farmyard in Perkins Township in Ohio, a short drive south of the shores of Lake Erie, proudly claims that his family have farmed the land here since 1900. Today, he raises 130 head of cattle and grows corn, wheat, grass and soybeans on 1,200 acres of land. For his family, his animals and wider business, water is life.
To identify the 20 five-billion-dollar weather disasters since 2020, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information report, Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2024). The 20 events are listed in order of the estimated cost of the damages, adjusted for inflation. Two of the events are winter storms, three are wildfires, four are droughts, five are severe storms, and six are tropical cyclones.
Makeup is making the planet ugly. The beauty industry generates approximately 120 billion packaging items annually, most of which end up in landfills. Most beauty packaging is too small, made of mixed materials, or too flexible to be accepted by municipal curbside recycling programs. Compacts, lipstick tubes, mascara wands, pumps, and travel-size containers are typically not accepted at standard recycling facilities.
No water, no life, says Sheikh Nidham, a Mandaean religious leader living in the southern Iraqi city of Amarah, on the banks of the river in which he has been regularly immersed since he was a month old. Mandaeans are members of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world. Southern Iraq has been their homeland for more than a thousand years, particularly in Maysan province. Amarah, the provincial capital, is built around the Tigris. Water is central to their faith and every major life event requires ritual purification. Marriage ceremonies begin in water, and before drawing their last breath, Mandaeans should be taken to the river for a final cleansing.
Our weekslong dry spell will end this week as a wet weather pattern will begin with spotty showers starting Tuesday afternoon. Spotty afternoon and evening showers mainly in the North Bay. But a few showers may work their way south and east of the Golden Gate before day's end. MORE: North Bay first responders, residents gear up for parade of storms It will be a light Level 1 on the exclusive ABC7 Storm Impact Scale on Wednesday morning with scattered showers.
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On Hawaii Island, Pennsylvania resident Andrew Tepper has emerged as one of the island's largest landowners, purchasing over 14,000 acres since 2021. He's also become a controversial figure, holding a Burning Man-inspired festival called "Falls on Fire" on his agricultural land in 2023 and 2024 without the proper permits. The event has raised concerns among neighbors, environmentalists and government agencies about its impacts to the community, such as increased traffic, environmental damage and fire hazards, especially with the Lahaina fire fresh in their minds.
Air pollution in Delhi and its suburbs, which together make up the National Capital Region, has been at its worst levels in weeks. According to government data, the averageAir Quality Index (AQI) in the region on Monday was 471, which among the worst in the world, with any measurement above 300 considered "hazardous" to health. For comparison, any measurement under 50 is considered "good."
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on earth, so dry that it's sometimes used by scientists to test-run Mars missions. Most years, the area sees less than half a centimeter of rain, but this past September unusually heavy precipitation brought forth a desert bloom, blanketing the ground with delicate purple flowers that disappeared as quickly as they'd appeared.
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Volunteers were out bright and early Wednesday morning along the Harbor Marsh coastline in the Palo Alto Baylands, joining an effort to build a nature-based buffer designed to absorb storm surges and curb flooding amid climate change and sea-level rise that threaten shoreline communities. They were helping build what project developers described as the Bay Area's first horizontal "living levee" directly connected to the Bay and irrigated with treated wastewater.
About two hours southwest of Houston lies Matagorda, a small beach town for travelers seeking solitude and a break from everyday life. Unlike other beach towns in Texas, Matagorda is sleepy. You won't find crowds, buzzing bars, and traffic here; instead, you'll encounter wide-open stretches of sand, tiny mom-and-pop eateries, and not a whole lot going on except fishing, shelling, birding, kayaking, and a few other outdoor pursuits.
In 2021, I explored the ruins of a Miami zoo that was abandoned after hurricanes ravaged the area. Nature has since taken over Crandon Park Zoo. Crocodiles and other wildlife now thrive there. Some abandoned cage structures from the zoo remain, and I got a look inside. On a corner of a South Florida beach, I found empty cages covered in graffiti and greenery.
If you're trying to stay away from using toxic chemicals in your home or can't stand the smell of store-bought cleaners, Martha Stewart has an easy answer. On Martha Stewart's website, writer Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner explains that it is possible to make your own cleaner with vodka. Not only is vodka a natural antiseptic, it also neutralizes smells. When combined with filtered water and your favorite essential oils, you'll have the ingredients you need to keep a kitchen smelling lovely and clean.
The group said it estimated a population for the southern half of Maine of 3,174 adult loons and 568 chicks. Audubon bases its count on the southern portion of Maine because there are enough bird counters to get a reliable number. The count is more than twice the number when they started counting in 1983, and the count of adults has increased 13% from 10 years ago.
What you might not appreciate is that conifers, which grow and thrive all year alongside other evergreens, have played some surprising roles in U.S. history. Take the eastern white pine. It decorated the first coins minted in the British colonies. Spruce lumberjacks in the early 20th century, meanwhile, helped enshrine some key labor rights, including an eight-hour workday and overtime pay. These tales and more are highlighted by Trent Preszler, an environmental economist at Cornell University,
He abandoned the requirements of a scientific analysis by ignoring information that contradicts his opinion. Specifically, he claims that nuclear power is needed to fill the gaps when wind and solar are not sufficient. He mentions batteries but discounts the possibility of increasing their capacity. And he fails to mention other storage possibilities such as pump storage, compressed air, heat batteries, etc.
They said these "dirt-cheap" prices cost taxpayers, add to the strains on scarce water, and discourage conservation - even as the Colorado River's depleted reservoirs continue to decline. "Federal taxpayers have been subsidizing effectively free water for a very, very long time," said Noah Garrison, a researcher at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. "We can't address the growing water scarcity in the West while we continue to give that water away for free or close to it."
Counties Cork and Kerry will be under the Orange warning from 3am until 6pm on Sunday, with the highest levels of rainfall expected in Kerry and west Cork. Significant flooding, hazardous travelling conditions and poor visibility are expected for the duration of the Orange warning. A Status Yellow rain warning will come into place for 10 counties today Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Donegal and all five counties in Connacht will be under the warning from 6pm on Saturday evening until midnight on Monday.
Internal breakdowns like those add to the chronic terror neighbors and businesses face downwind of the refinery, said Heidi Taylor, who lives along its fence line in downtown Martinez. She said she's seen level-one alerts and enormous flaring almost every day for the past month, which was confirmed by Contra Costa County officials. It's the public that suffers as a result of MRC's incompetence, or what I would argue is gross negligence, Taylor said Tuesday at a Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Coach John Beam changed my life when I was a 14-year-old kid on the Skyline High football field. I still remember getting flattened in a varsity drill and looking up to see Beam standing over me, demanding more because he saw more. That was his gift. He coached football, but he taught manhood: accountability, discipline, belief in yourself long before you earned it.
