After the long-dormant supervolcano Campi Flegrei awakened late last year, a team of scientists that has pinpointed the now-active volcano's magma source says a potentially devastating eruption could be just around the corner.
It’s been nearly a month since Hurricane Harvey, a storm that some expect to rank among the costliest natural disasters in US history, and still tens of thousands of Texans remain marooned in temporary housing, unable to return to their flood-damaged homes, while thousands more are struggling to secure hotel rooms and other types of temporary housing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Even as the damage from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is still being tallied, a preliminary assessment released last week by Black Knight Financial Services estimated that as many as 300,000 borrowers in the vicinity of Houston could become delinquent on their loans and 160,000 could become seriously delinquent, or more than 90 days past due.
New York City officials say three people were killed and 16 more were injured when an MTA bus and a Dahlia charter bus collided in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens early Monday morning, AM New York reports.
The driver of the Dahlia bus, a passenger on the MTA bus and a pedestrian on the sidewalk died, officials said. At least 16 others were hurt, they said. The accident occurred at about 6:15 am at Main Street and Northern Boulevard, the FDNY said. One victim died at the scene, two others at the hospital, according to the Associated Press.
Before a forecast tropical storm, residents of a coastal floodplain keep one eye trained on the weather as they go about their daily business.
Wary investors keep an eye out for potential political, geopolitical, as well as natural disasters.
Homeowners on the Gulf of Mexico take precautions against the potential for wind and water damage, as do market-minders seek indemnity from inflation and recession, up and down markets, changing tax policy, and potential for catastrophe.