Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has released modelling showing the latest El Nino cycle is over, but could now lead to La Nina development. Rains have returned to many of the nations badly hit by the so-called “Godzilla” El Nino event, but replanting and food stocks remain tight. In Papua New Guinea, where hundreds of thousands have […]
When Hurricane Katrina rolled through New Orleans, lives were lost and power was out for more than a month. When a massive snowstorm hit the Northeast earlier this year, some customers were without power for weeks. These are two of the more drastic cases of power loss in recent memory. But make no mistake, even a loss of power […]