California is one of the few states with building codes for wildfire protection because using fire-resistant materials helps ...

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...

When wind gusts hit a building ... Weather resistance in building codes is generally designed for rain that falls straight down and flows off the roof. But in a cyclone, rain can come horizontally.

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

Victor Insurance's Jeff Benson on why brokers are rethinking risk management as wildfires outpace conventional underwriting ...

We do not do interior firefighting in Code X buildings," Baltimore ... According to Wallace, the fire was "wind driven." "Crews were really challenged with the speed at which the fire was ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

LiDAR's capacity to capture surface-level damage, water displacement, and terrain deformation in high resolution allows response ...

The "Race Day" tornadoes of May 30, 2004, were a significant and destructive series of tornadoes that struck the state of Indiana in the United States. The event is often remembered due to the timing ...

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Greenland’s massive cap of ice, containing enough fresh water to raise sea levels by 23 feet, is in serious trouble. Between ...