FEMA Head David Richardson Steps Down From Role After Six Months, Criticism Over Texas Floods

Richardson spent “limited time in daily operations meetings and shrank away from his role,” according to The Washington Post.
Science Daily

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater ...

FEMA head resigns. Richardson had been hard to reach during Texas floods.

David Richardson on Monday resigned as acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to people familiar with the situation, ending a brief tenure leading an agency the ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

California wildfire grows as storms threaten Los Angeles with floods

A fast-moving wildfire raged across thousands of acres of California prairie near the Nevada border today, while Los Angeles ...

Texas summer camp to reopen after deadly July 4th floods forced major changes

Heart O' the Hills Camp will look very different when it reopens. After losing their director of nearly 40 years in the ...

You might think frogs never get enough water. Turns out, they can fare worse in floods than in bushfires

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...