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News & Articles By Isabelle Z.

04/08/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Sixty percent of Americans won’t be able to cover basic necessities in a month or less because of the quarantine

America is dramatically unprepared for the economic shutdown we’re currently facing as the nation grapples with coronavirus, and one recent survey illustrates just how serious the problem is. When the Society for Human Research Management surveyed American workers from March 12 to 16, they found that 60 percent of respondents would not be able to […]

03/31/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Brace yourself for social unrest stemming from coronavirus-related unemployment and shutdowns

Right now, social distancing and work from home mandates are a big inconvenience for a lot of people, but it could turn into something far more dire as the effects of a stalled economy start to take hold. It’s a scenario that has played out time and time again throughout history in various places around […]

03/25/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Power plant workers may be sequestered and live ON SITE to deal with coronavirus emergencies

While many people around the world suddenly find themselves working from home unexpectedly thanks to coronavirus, employees in the power industry could experience the opposite as essential staff may be asked to sleep on site as a precautionary measure as the outbreak spreads. The federal government considers electric power plants to be “critical infrastructure.” This […]

02/26/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Catastrophic flooding hits central and southern Mississippi

Ongoing flooding is creating a nightmare in some parts of South Mississippi as the floodwaters that wreaked havoc on Central Mississippi make their way downstream. A rainy weekend didn’t help matters, prompting one river to crest higher than projected and slowing the progress of the waters’ recess. Near Columbia, the Pearl River crested at 25.8 […]

02/18/2020 / By Isabelle Z.

Scientists are closely watching an active supervolcano in California

Yellowstone might get all the headlines, but there’s another supervolcano slowly brewing in the U.S. that could one day lead to catastrophe. The Long Valley Caldera is considered a supervolcano by USGS volcanologists, although scientists were unsure until recently just how much magma was lying beneath it. Now, studies have shown that there’s a reservoir […]

10/08/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

Fracking-induced earthquakes in Central and Eastern America are on the rise, caution researchers

It’s getting harder for fracking proponents to defend the practice as new studies show that it can be linked to a rise in earthquakes throughout the United States, particularly in areas where seismic events are not historically common – and this is true even when wastewater disposal, which often takes the blame for fracking-related seismicity, […]

09/04/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

A volcanic eruption in 1815 blocked the sun for a full year, causing global crop failures and famine… and it could happen again

As welcome as the fall weather can be when it finally sets in, it’s hard to imagine life without summer, yet that’s exactly what happened back in 1816 – and it could happen again. That year, spring came like it always did, but what followed was a lot closer to winter than summer. Cold temperatures […]

07/26/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

California residents have bankrupted their own power company, burning it down faster than any wildfire could have hoped

California power company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is headed for financial disaster thanks to a growing number of wildfire lawsuits, and the very residents behind these suits could be facing a long summer full of power outages as a result. Created in the mid-1800s, PG&E remains the state’s biggest provider of power and one […]

04/10/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

A “perfect storm” of events is now building toward a cascading collapse of mammoth U.S. dams that will displace millions and destroy entire towns

Dams do their job every day with little fanfare, but when one breaks, the results can be devastating. Imagine entire towns being completely washed away and millions of people losing everything they own and being displaced. It sounds like something out of a big-budget Hollywood doomsday film, but for the millions of people who live […]

03/04/2019 / By Isabelle Z.

Shocking new study finds that Fukushima disaster exposed EVERY living human to the radiation dose of a full chest x-ray

If you think that the nuclear disaster at Fukushima hasn’t really affected you too much because you live so far away from it, think again. Researchers looking into the Fukushima nuclear disaster have made a startling discovery: The devastating incident gave every single human being on the planet an amount of radiation exposure that is […]

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