Heat stroke can damage the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. As extreme heat becomes more common, doctors are learning just how difficult recovery can be.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter 2025

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Wildfire smoke, even from fires far away, carries potentially harmful gases that, once inside, tend to stick around. An air quality specialist offers an easy, cheap, effective way to deal with it.

Edgar McGregor’s timely Eaton Fire alert: ‘Get out!’

Hundreds of homes in the Altadena area still had power when a fire erupted there, according to a grid-monitoring company and interviews with residents.

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An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis.

California's Department of Insurance released rules meant to encourage insurers to write more policies in high-fire-risk areas by using computer modeling.

FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previo...

The US startup OceanWell is developing undersea "water farms" that leverage water pressure to operate an energy efficient desalination system.

By Ruari Rhodes, Senior Climate Change Analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance.

Outage risks rise in electricity markets affecting Ninth District