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Wildfires may be in the news this winter across the U.S. southern tier as drought persists and expands across the region, experts tell USA TODAY. 2025 climate forecast warns of winter danger ...
Is it daylight saving or daylight savings time when we change clocks again in 2025? It is daylight saving time, no s at the end. Daylight saving time starts again on Sunday, March 9, 2025. This ...
The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
In 2011 intense drought struck much of Texas, New Mexico and a large portion of the Southwest bringing much of the region its worst drought seen since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Most of the drought in Texas ended or had it impacts ease by spring and summer 2012 as precipitation returned to the region, while the New Mexican drought ...
The drought of 2012 narrowed navigation channels, forced lock closures, and caused dozens of barges to run aground on the Mississippi River along the Missouri shoreline. The resulting impact on navigation cost the region more than $275 million. The drought of 2012–2013 also threatened municipal and industrial water users along the Missouri ...
A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy found that the four-week extension of daylight saving time in 2008 saved about 0.5% of the nation’s electricity per day, or 1.3 trillion watt ...
June 15–July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in 11 cities across the United States. May 5 – Sean "Diddy" Combs is scheduled to be put on trial for sex trafficking crimes. [62] October 14 – Microsoft has set the retirement (end-of-life) date for its Windows 10 operating system on this date.
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.