Flood

Tropical Warming Tied To Flooding Rains

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Flooding Rain, Tropical Storm, Flood, Tropical Rain, Climate Change, Tropical Warming, Heavy Rain, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News

Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and a rise in the frequ...

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Weathering the Storm with Morgan Freeman

Carl Pope | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Hurricane, Wildfires, Wildfire, Global Warming, Flood, Green News
Carl Pope

With fresh, visceral images of past Category-5 hurricanes in our minds, many forecasters have predicted another active storm season for the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard regions.

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Biofuel Future Threatened By Severe Weather

New York Times | Jad Mouawad | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Biofuel Future, Ethanol Flood, Corn-Based Ethanol, Corn Bumper Crop, Corn Prices, Flood, Flood Biofuel, Corn Crop, Crazy Weather, Extreme Weather, Midwest Flood, Green News

The record storms and floods that swept through the Midwest last month struck at the heart of America's corn region, drowning fields and dashing hopes...

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New Orleans Now

Suzette Standring | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Ninth Ward, Recovery, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Flood, Katrina, Survivors, Standring, Suzette, Living News
Suzette Standring

New Orleans is like a newly grime-free Sistine Chapel. It's hard to believe its near-death experience was only three years ago.

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Snapshot: Mississippi High Water -- South Louisiana April 2008

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Louisiana, Flood, Nature, Morgan City, Katrina, Government Funding, Congress, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi, Stephensville, Carrollton, Living News
Georgianne Nienaber

Water stalks southern Louisiana like a panther seeking its prey. Hurricane Katrina was the kill, but the water never relents -- always moving, sometimes retreating, forever flowing.

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On Killer Molasses

Dave Hill | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Boston, North End, Bran, Postum, Flood, Killer, Disaster, Obama, Dave Hill, Molasses, Dan Allen, Prohibition, Living News
Dave Hill

I find it's hard to stay mad at a confectionery of any sort for very long, but on one infamous day in 1919 the people of Boston added molasses to their collective sh*tlist for a long time to come and with good reason.

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