Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. His beat is focused on the intersection of climate change and business activity, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy, clean technology and smart grid applications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Freakish weather rumbled across the Southern Plains and Midwest yesterday as roughly 6 million people dodged tornadoes, floods, pounding hail and 70-mph wind gusts in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
Hydroelectric power is widely credited for being a climate-friendly energy resource due to its zero carbon emissions, a fact the industry likes to point out as it seeks to boost its share of global electricity generation.
Rural counties across much of the Northeast could see a big increase in very hot days within 40 years, resulting in harsher summers from West Virginia to Maine, according to new research from Dartmouth College.
The swollen, churning, unrelenting river that's flooding towns from Minnesota to Louisiana this month is not Mark Twain's Mississippi River. It's a new generation of disasters, experts say.
The fight against a flooding Mississippi River is shifting south where the battle for dry ground moves from a narrower channel to a mile-wide and 200-foot-deep river that can bury more communities as it seeks to reclaim its historic floodplain.