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Thanks to AI, startups like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting, but they rely in part on government data ...
Uncertainty is hanging over this year’s hurricane season as meteorologists predict “above-normal” activity and the Trump administration sends shifting signals over the future of the federal ...
Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge. Less than a century ago, ...
A local meteorologist recalled how good forecasts during Hurricane Hugo in 1989 saved lives. Back then, federal forecasts ...
There’s a conservative way and a liberal way to invest. The conservative mantra is to use strategies that reduce risk and ...
Accurate hurricane forecasts has saved around $5 billion per hurricane in emergency funds and damages — but only with the ...
Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tore into what he called President Donald Trump’s “war on science” Tuesday in a ...
Professor Jeffrey Frame, who teaches and conducts research in meteorology, discusses proposed NOAA budget cuts and the Texas ...
Next year's budget proposal for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, amplifies previous worries with potential cuts to several key programs and projects. WGLT talks to three ...
The decision by the Department of Defense to stop providing data to NOAA is just the latest challenge for the agency this year.
In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to ...