disasters
Credit Suisse, Johnson & Johnson, Micron Technology: Stocks That Defined the Week
Credit Suisse Group AG A fire sale of stocks by a large U.S. investor burned Credit Suisse and Nomura Holdings Inc. The global investment banks said Monday that they could incur substantial losses after Bill Hwang’s firm Archegos Capital Management and its banks began liquidating huge positions in blue-chip companies. Large banks served as prime …
Trump’s environmental and occupational policies are the other public health disasters
Throughout his four-year term, Trump tried to nullify more than 100 environmental and occupational standards — rules and regulations that protect our air, clean up our water, and reduce the threat of global warming. Most important, these protections safeguard America’s greatest resources: our children and our workers. While court challenges blocked some of these actions, …
Record-breaking: Weather disasters in 2020 total $95 billion in damage
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — 2020 was not only an active and record-breaking year in the WKRG News 5 area, but also across the entire U.S. Adam Smith, NOAA disaster expert, said, “There were 22 separate billion-dollar disasters with a total cost of $95 billion. This was actually the fourth highest inflation-adjusted year over the last …
Is Google Down? Gmail, YouTube Suffer Outages
More than a dozen Google services, including Gmail and YouTube, were offline in swaths of the globe Monday morning, interrupting access for individuals and businesses. The Alphabet Inc. GOOG -0.24% -owned company’s services showed errors for users attempting to sign in, access their emails or files, according to social-media postings from users. On YouTube, the …
Theta Is 29th Named Storm in 2020, Breaking 2005 Record
With the naming of Subtropical Storm Theta this week, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season surpassed 2005 as the busiest season ever recorded. Theta is the 29th named storm of hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. There were 28 named storms in 2005: 21-named from an official alphabetical list used by the …
Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry
Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten …
California Wildfires Rage Despite Break in Heat Wave
VACAVILLE, Calif.—Firefighters took advantage of a break in extreme heat wave conditions to gain more control over numerous wildfires that have prompted evacuations and blanketed wide swaths of the state in smoke. Still, many of the major fires in and around the San Francisco Bay Area are no more than 7% contained, according to the …
California Braces for More Blackouts as Heat Wave Scorches West
California was struggling to deliver enough power to keep the lights on for the first time in nearly two decades as a severe heat wave broiled the region, and officials warned of potentially more rolling blackouts if high temperatures persist. Residents across the state were blasting their air-conditioning units while sheltering at home as coronavirus …
Bushfires And Coronavirus: Disasters Increase Domestic Violence : Shots
In 2009, Australia’s deadliest bushfires on record destroyed Kinglake, a town just over an hour’s drive northeast of Melbourne. The disaster had long-term effects on families. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Meredith Rizzo/NPR In 2009, Australia’s deadliest bushfires on record destroyed Kinglake, a town just over an hour’s drive northeast of Melbourne. The disaster …
‘They’re Killing Us,’ Texas Residents Say of Public Health and Environmental Rollbacks – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Danielle Nelson’s best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son. On some nights, the boy’s chest shudders as he fights for breath in his sleep. Nelson suspects the towering plants and refineries are to blame, rising like a …
