Texas has been at the center of a national debate over how to green the grid without jeopardizing reliability. The region has been battered in recent years by extreme weather events as the state's power sector has undergone large changes, with coal generation falling rapidly and renewable pr...
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Texas Power Grid Withstands Strain of Blistering Heat Wave (1) The Texas grid avoided blackouts Monday despite a searing heat wave that depleted electric supplies in America's second-most populous state.\nThe Electric ... M Dan,NS Malik - 《Environment & Energy Report》 被引量: 0发表: 202...
Excessive heat alerts are in place in several states including California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Extreme heat warnings have also been issued across Europe since last week. In Italy, red alerts were in force from Wednesday in all but four of the country's 27 major cities. ...
The human toll of heat this year is rising both around the world and closer to home. In North Texas, wherefirefighters battled 780% more blazesin July compared with last year – and officials said a66-year-old woman diedfrom heat-related causes this week –La Niña is helping drive drou...
Heat Waves Heat waves are one of the most subtle yet most lethal disasters. Local infrastructure shows no damage, and commerce and travel continue with little noticeable impact. Hospitalizations and deaths slowly increase among vulnerable populations, while causes often remain attributed to conditions ot...
From London's 'Great Stink' of 1858, to a sweltering stint during the Great Depression, take a look back at some of the deadliest heat waves in history.
aRecent high profile heat waves, such as the one in Texas and Oklahoma in the summer of 2011, raise the question of whether these extreme events are related to the on-going global warming trend, which has been attributed with a high degree of confidence to human-made greenhouse gases... ...
Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods July 8, 2024 Persistent heat wave in the US shatters new records, causes deaths in the West and grips the East July 8, 2024 More records expected to shatter as long-running blanket of hea...
The situation in Texas is so dire ranchers are running out of water – forcing them to sell their cattle at a rate not seen in more than a decade, according to David Anderson, a livestock economist at Texas A&M University. The dry, hot conditions are essentially causing grass to die off...