In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

EVERY planting season now begins with a question: What will the weather bring? For farmers, particularly smallholders, decisions made at planting determine livelihoods, but the results largely depend ...