Tag: Buildings

Smokey the Bear is famous for warning against forest fires—but for most U.S. homeowners, grass fires and shrubland fires are ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Two houses are side by side. One is a crumpled mess of splintered wood and ripped insulation. The other ...

After two dams in northeastern Libya failed, thousands of people are dead, thousands more are unaccounted for, and tens of ...

Earlier this summer, as a brutal heat dome settled over Texas, the large pecan tree in my front yard started ...

Kashmir, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, is famous for two things: landscape and conflict. The scenic valley from ...

In an attempt to solve two environmental problems at once, researchers at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan have found ...

The earthquake that has destroyed parts of Türkiye and Syria is a tragedy for millions of families, including my own. ...

Notre Dame cathedral is being restoredShutterstock/Jerome Labouyrie When a fire destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral’s famous spire and most of ...

Our planet is covered by tectonic plates that are slowly moving around, pushing into or sliding past one another along ...

Can scientists predict a particular earthquake? In short, no. Science has not yet found a way to make actionable earthquake predictions. ...