In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

Many farmers in portions of the upper Midwest have been dealing with the impacts of severe storms and heavy rains during the month of June. A widespread area of west central and northern Minnesota, ...

EVERY planting season now begins with a question: What will the weather bring? For farmers, particularly smallholders, decisions made at planting determine livelihoods, but the results largely depend ...