Environmental Disasters

During the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, a developer of land around a threatened Maui community urgently asked state officials for permission to divert stream water to help fight the growing inferno.
Erin Brockovich warned fearful East Palestine, Ohio, residents that they're in for a long battle after a train derailment earlier this month.
The estimate is limited to aquatic animal deaths — primarily fish — but local residents are reporting harm to their pets and livestock as well.
Russian officials claim it could be due to "natural causes."
Jana Elementary School is shutting down after a study funded by law firms found contamination in classrooms, the playground and elsewhere.
Authorities have been working to empty the Piney Point reservoir into local waterways to prevent it from collapsing and flooding into the surrounding area.
Last year, climate-linked disasters caused a record $306 billion in damage.
It's not listed on death certificates, but it's still considered "one of the great killers of our age."
Sixteen $1 billion-plus weather- and climate-related events killed at least 362 people.
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