The Energy Department said on Monday that it had finalized a $1.52 billion loan guarantee to help a company restart a shuttered nuclear plant in Michigan — the latest sign of rising government support for nuclear power. Two rural electricity provide
The little tracts of wilderness grow on Maple Edge Farm in southwest Iowa, where the Bakehouse family cultivates 700 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa. Set against uniform rows of cropland, the scraps of land look like tiny Edens, colorful and fro
As his bush plane circled the craggy peaks of the Alaska Range, the explorer Bradford Washburn peered down and had a burning thought. Coursing down the southern slopes of Denali and Mount Silverthrone were the accumulated snows of thousands of winte
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2024-10-09It was 4 a.m. and my wife and I lay awake as the rain hammered our metal roof. The trees silhouetted against the night sky whipped violently back and forth. “It’s too much rain,” I kept thinking to myself. Our house was surrounded by large trees on
Erica Scott, a wedding photographer, spent much of her life in California, but moved to Asheville, N.C., 16 years ago with a sense that she was leaving behind the perpetual threat of natural disasters. With its cool mountain climate and a setting hu
William Lopez was still cleaning debris and covering the roofs of homes damaged by Hurricane Helene about 40 minutes north of Tampa this week when the warnings about Hurricane Milton started to become dire. He wrapped up his jobs and planned to driv
The Studio Museum in Harlem on Tuesday announced that it will open its new home on 125th Street in the fall of 2025. Its first show there will bring the museum full circle by focusing on the work of Tom Lloyd, the artist, educator and activist who w
With four weeks to go until the electionsga gaming, the race for the White House is as tight as it’s been for the last two weeks. The New York Times polling average shows Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump essentially tied across the seven battlegrou
At least 17 people from a single family were killed when gunmen attacked two homesteads in South Africa early Saturday, the police said, adding to a rising number of mass shootings in the country. Gunmen opened fire on two separate homesteads as the