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As flash floods ravage areas like the Texas Hill Country, research shows that technology alone cannot save lives during flooding emergencies.

An entomologist describes how the sap-sucking insects can weaken grapevines and reduce fruit yield and quality.

Storm systems, heat waves, bright sunlight, even lightning - for millions of people, weather changes can bring on painful headaches.

Recycling solar panels seems like a smart idea, but it's complicated. Built to withstand years of wind and weather, solar panels are designed for strength, not easy breakdown.

Factors like your health status and how hard you exercise can help gauge the risk of wildfire smoke exposure.

The administration said the grants were 'no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.' Spokane, which has faced deadly heat waves in eastern Washington, shows who is at risk.

The new federal law favors energy technologies that are already profitable and increase global warming over cleaner approaches that could use the investment support.

Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that's only one of the heightened challenges aging rural communities face after a disaster.

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.