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California wildfires torch the legalization hopes of pot growers
Early October is peak harvest for cannabis. But flames got the crop first.
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‘Diablo Winds’ spark historic wildfires in California wine country
Blazes in northern California have burned hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people.
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Maria has plunged Puerto Rico into a humanitarian emergency
With no power for months, simple sanitation could become a life-threatening issue for island dwellers.
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Hurricane Maria poses a catastrophic threat to the Caribbean
Maria is expected to grow stronger as it heads toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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Florida’s best defense against natural disasters is nature
The key to fighting hurricanes? Just act natural.
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Hurricane Irma’s power leaves Florida powerless
A last-minute turn inland spared the state even more damaging storm surge, but the electric grid took a lashing.
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Hurricane Irma is a monster storm. Here’s where it might be headed.
The storm is “starting to give me that uncomfortable feeling in my gut,” one meteorologist wrote.
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The U.S. should go Dutch to avoid building another Houston
Americans focus more on recovering from floods brought on by disasters like Harvey than planning for them.
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Hurricane Harvey brings some of the heaviest downpours anyone has ever seen
A year's worth of rain could fall on parts of Texas this week.
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Hurricane Harvey aims for the Texas fracking boom’s favorite port
Corpus Christi’s oil infrastructure has grown tremendously over the past decade.
