It’s never too early to start preparing for the next crisis. The federal government may have had this best crisis management practice in mind when it announced a new commission that will make recommendations to more effectively prevent, mitigate, suppress and manage wildfires.
Commercial insurance rates are expected to increase across most lines of coverage this year, with many sectors likely still experiencing double-digit hikes.
In a USGS Hazard Notification statement, Cascades Volcano Observatory announced their scientists have tracked an increased rate of ground uplift in the Three Sisters volcanic region.
More than 200 earthquakes of 3 magnitude and greater shook Texans last year, more than double the number in 2020. Scientists cite years of oil companies injecting sludgy water underground.
The number of U.S. traffic deaths surged in the first nine months of 2021 to 31,720, keeping up a record pace of increased dangerous driving during the coronavirus pandemic.
The average tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record. The past eight years were collectively the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Punxsutawney Phil has emerged from his burrow and has declared six more weeks of winter, but that prognostication may not come to fruition across the entire U.S.