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Black Altadena fire victims clash with Edison over compensation

Outside a hall where Southern California Edison was celebrating Black History Month on Friday, a group of Altadena residents stood on the sidewalk, waving signs and talking of the homes and family members they lost in last year’s Eaton fire.

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Long-awaited reports outline problems with Palisades infrastructure

In a road map for rebuilding infrastructure, the reports outlined nearly a billion dollars in projects through 2033, including more than $650 million for electrical undergrounding and $150 million for water system upgrades.

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In Tampa, storm-weary residents detail the costs of extreme weather

An Ybor business owner closed her yoga studio repeatedly from worries over moldy, waterlogged walls. A Pinellas woman's home flooded in one hurricane, and a tree crushed her car in another. A Tampa student feared her insulin would become ineffective in extreme, hot temperatures.

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The Palisades fire discourse is stuck in January 2025

Officials argue they had little agency to stop the fire. Residents point to a string of missteps that enabled it. There's little consensus on how to prevent the next one.

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Hidden slippery clay on seafloor may have worsened devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

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Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving

An avalanche during a storm in the Sierra Nevada killed at least eight skiers on a guided backcountry excursion.

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Man missing in floods as France hit by record 35 days of rain

A man has gone missing in the Loire River in the flood-hit west of France, an official said, as the country on Wednesday marked a record-breaking streak of 35 consecutive days of rain.

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How 1.5 million km of undersea internet cables can double up as an earthquake and tsunami warning system

Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of Earth's surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that crisscross the world's seas could soon change this. As well as transmitting data around the planet, they can also monitor the tectonic movements that cause earthquakes and tsunamis.

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What the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina means for businesses today

When Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded $100 billion. Now, 21 years later, new research from The University of Manchester has found that Katrina left another, less visible legacy long after the storm clouds had cleared.

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'Impossible' mantle earthquakes actually occur all over the world, study finds

Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.

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As a Colorado River deadline passes, reservoirs keep declining

Seven states have missed a federal deadline to reach a water deal on the Colorado River. They remain divided how to cut water use.

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Three decades on from Wales' biggest oil spill: How the Sea Empress disaster changed shipping

I grew up on the beaches of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Visits to Tenby were my family's summer ritual: sand between our toes, paddling in rockpools, strawberry syrup on ice cream.

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Model maps Valencia's October 2024 flood, finding water topped four meters

A study led by Francisco Vallés Morán, a researcher at the Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA) at the Universitat Politècnica de València, has analyzed in detail the flooding caused by the DANA on 29 October 2024 in l'Horta Sud (Valencia) using advanced two-dimensional hydraulic modeling techniques. The study (in Spanish), published in Cuadernos de Geografía of the University of Valencia, accurately reproduces the dynamics of the event, the extent of the flooding and the overflowing flows that caused serious material and human damage.

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CA To Investigate Possible Racial Discrimination In Delayed Evacuation Order For LA County Wildfire

The state attorney general is investigating Los Angeles County officials' preparations for and response to the Eaton Fire.

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Major earthquakes are just as random as smaller ones

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as it turns out, is not so accommodating. A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that massive earthquakes are just as random as small ones. A team of researchers led by Zakaria Ghazoui-Schaus at the British Antarctic Survey reached this conclusion after analyzing sediments from Lake Rara in Western Nepal.