The storm had passed, but the water kept rising. In September 2017, Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida, causing tides to surge and dumping about a foot of water across much of the state. A few days later, Jane Blais stood on a bridge with her neighbors near her High Springs...
Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather
This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Extreme weather disasters — made larger, longer, and more intense by climate change — are taking an heavier toll on...
A fiber optic cable spied on Greenland’s glaciers. It found an alarming problem
One of the buzziest technologies in modern science may be running right under your feet. Fiber optic cables bring you the internet as data-rich pulses of light, but they also detect signals from the surrounding environment: Researchers can analyze the light that’s scattered when a volcanic eruption or tsunami jostles...
From Birmingham to Sunderland, which teams are set for WSL2 title tilt?
England’s rebranded second tier begins on Friday and our club-by-club guide features all the pre-season news Last season: 2nd. Predicted finish: 2nd After missing out on promotion on the final day of last season, finishing just two points behind London City Lionesses, Birmingham looked virtually WSL-ready on and off the...
Rope hope: meet the 72-year-old heaving hard for England’s tug of war team
After helping Great Britain win gold at the World Games last month, lifelong puller Richard Keightley is competing again in the world championships in Nottingham this weekend It is Richard Keightley’s 50th wedding anniversary in early December, and he could really do with planning something special to placate his longsuffering...
Eagles squeeze past Cowboys as Carter ejected for spitting on Prescott six seconds into season
Dallas Cowboys 20-24 Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia DT thrown out after confrontation The defending Super Bowl champions got their title defence off to a winning start as they beat the Dallas Cowboys 24-20 in the NFL season opener on Thursday night. But the game may well be remembered for an incident...
Chess: Gukesh wins impressively on Silk Road as Grand Swiss starts in Samarkand
The contest in Uzbekistan will qualify two of the eight 2026 world title Candidates, but Nakamura, the world No 2, has controversially preferred a low-rated qualification route The 11-round $625,000 Fide Grand Swiss, which began on Thursday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the capital of the Silk Road, will decide two of...
England’s Sonny Baker can take heart from cricket’s rich history of less-than-dream debuts | Emma John
Jimmy Anderson, Adil Rashid and West Indies’ Jediah Blades are among other bowlers to suffer notable early nightmares On Tuesday the screen at Headingley was showing Sonny Baker’s bowling speed. They were impressive figures – 87, 86, 88mph – and you wonder if the bowler himself caught a glimpse. Probably...
Georgia Stanway: ‘If England win the World Cup I’ll happily retire – that’s all my dreams’
Lionesses and Bayern Munich midfielder on ‘stressful’ Euro 2025 success, ‘world-class’ Sarina Wiegman and online abuse suffered by players Georgia Stanway has more than 100 tiny tattoos inked into her skin and, stretching out her arms to show me some of them, she reveals that since helping England win a...
Aston Villa ‘killed’ by spending rules in transfer window, says Ezri Konsa
Club affected by Premier League and Uefa financial fair play ‘It’s crazy. We’re going to have to deal with what we’ve got’ Ezri Konsa has said that football’s spending regulations “killed” Aston Villa during a difficult summer transfer window. The club, who have started the season badly with one point...