Q: When we recently replaced the windows in our 1969 home, we removed the dilapidated wooden shutters. (Bats were roosting ...

What a two weeks to be an insurance agent in the Tampa Bay area. We all know about hurricane risks, but when storms wallop ...

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Things were bound to get a little dicey, but we had hurricane shutters and safe rooms to shelter in, so it was very light-hearted at first," she explains. The family started noticing the effects ...

Tropical Storm Oscar made landfall as a hurricane early Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas before heading toward Cuba, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to the island, the National Hurricane ...

Tropical Storm Oscar unexpectedly formed off the coast of the Bahamas on Saturday as a hurricane, and brought heavy rainfall across eastern Cuba. It is now turning northward and weakening.

HAVANA — Oscar has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Sunday in eastern Cuba. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Oscar had 70 mph (110 kph) winds late Sunday and was 40 ...

Editor's note: Follow along here for updates about Atlantic storms on Oct. 20. A storm system in the Caribbean rapidly escalated Saturday from a tropical storm into Hurricane Oscar, the 10th ...

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that CDA is the fastest degrading type of plastic in seawater – technically classified as a bioplastic – and with ...

After years of pressure from environmental advocates, the global retail giant Amazon announced last week that it has eliminated plastic air pillows from its global network of “fulfillment ...

Investigators said the woman had apparently moved plastic balcony patio chairs into her dining room and may have been attempting to close her hurricane shutters when she either slipped on the wet ...