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Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief and recovery
No matter where you live, a disaster can hit and change your life. This comprehensive toolkit — about everything from food access to FEMA to housing — can help you stay ready, informed, and supported.
How climate change is supercharging wildfires
By Amal Ahmed
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This is part of the Disaster 101 toolkit, a comprehensive guide to extreme weather preparation, response, and recovery.
Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before.
A record year for Great Lakes piping plovers
The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen nesting pairs. This year, the number reached 85 nesting pairs for the first time.
Why The Delay For The Tesla Shareholders Annual Meeting?
The drama is unfolding as if it was a Shakespearean tragedy. CEO Elon Musk is King Lear, moaning into the wind that his Tesla family doesn’t understand him. Tesla shareholders are the chorus, irritating in their high pitched repetition — they deserve, nay, need to be heard. The rising cacophony … [continued]
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Have No Fear, The Superman Of Solar Power Is Here
The US solar power field is getting a shot of adrenaline in the form of new quantum dot technology, just in time to save the US grid from a forthcoming blackout catastrophe.
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