2001: California’s partial electric deregulation builds to a crisis with widespread blackouts caused by capped retail prices, delays in the construction of new power plants, and market manipulation by suppliers and energy traders. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the state’s largest utility, declar...
a build-up of flammable materials has caused wildfires to burn hot enough to reach the fragile upper forest canopies instead of just scorching their more fire-resistant trunks. In any wildfire, individual trees die, but the more severe the fire, the more damaging...
Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-climate-change-burn-devastation-warming-1429ef7c613a0d97fc156068215571d2 Antarctic coastal polynyas in the global climate system https://www.nature.com/artic...
like the golden wattle tree. But they can also be caused by people, for example, by someonenot extinguishing their campfireproperly. Sadly, sometimes fires are started by someone deliberately.
There was the same old criticism of Joe Biden, of the Democrats’ response to the wildfires in California, and of their policies on immigration. And there was defence of his decision to pardon January 6 rioters, whose offences he down-played as “very, very ...
And when Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Jewish space lasers caused the 2018 California wildfires, many Republicans stood by her as well.Even as Trump has been indicted by four different grand juries of American citizens, Republicans keep blaming Jewish billionaire George Soros. They never ...
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says it identified a critical problem in its software and is working to fix the issue. Justin Cappos, professor and cybersecurity expert at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, joins CBS News to explain what caused the outage and when things could ...
This helps prepare for them and therefore reduces the damage caused. Why should you prepare for storms and floods? During a storm, strong winds and especially gusts of wind cause damage. Flood water can cause damage as the water rises in a built-up area due to sudden heavy rainfall, ...
What caused the crash? The ship involved in the crash, a Singapore-flagged vessel called the Dali, had just left the Port of Baltimore when it reported losing propulsion before crashing into the bridge support. Officials said the crew issued a mayday call, which gave them time to stop ...
The Yellow Sea—famous as a modern-day fishing location—was completely dry. The cold temperatures also caused the polar parts of continents to be covered by massive ice sheets, with glaciers forming in mountainous areas. Flora and Fauna in the Last Ice Age The dry climate during the last ...