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An Amazon driver was told she would be fired if she stopped delivering packages during tornado warnings: report
The driver's supervisor said in a text that returning to the factory would "end with you not having…
Kate Duffy
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Four Amazon drivers are suing the company after they were caught in the warehouse wrecked by a tornado. Two say warehouse staff threatened to fire them if they went home.
The drivers' lawsuit says they suffered "devastating physical and emotional injuries" from being in…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Video captures powerful fire tornado in California as crews continue to fight multiple blazes across the state
The US Forest Service described the weather phenomenon as a "spinning vortex column of ascending ho…
Erin Snodgrass
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Employees at a Kentucky candle factory destroyed by tornadoes claim they were told they would be fired if they left early, a new report says
The factory was among the hardest hit locations as tornadoes tore through the Midwest late Friday, …
Rebecca Cohen,Erin Snodgrass
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California's fires are so intense, some make their own thunderstorms. NASA calls the formations the 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds.'
The pyrocumulonimbus cloud can generate smoky rain, lightning, and in some cases, tornadoes (someti…
Susie Neilson
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Some businesses are seeing more people invest in fire bunkers. Others are dumbfounded as to why there aren't more people snapping them up.
In Australia, bushfire bunkers have become a new norm. In America, businesses are seeing a mixed ba…
Hannah Getahun
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Wildfires in Northern California led to a rare 'firenado' — a fire and tornado combination — that tore through the region
The National Weather Service issued a fire tornado warning as wildfires raged in Loyalton, Californ…
Zoë Ettinger
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A Kentucky Amazon employee couldn't drive to work after a deadly tornado. She says HR refused to excuse her absence — until she tweeted at a top exec
Amazon worker Leslie Campbell said she believes she would've been fired for missing work because of…
Hannah Towey
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Some Amazon workers say the company never offered them disaster training, report says
A tornado ripped through an Illinois warehouse last week, killing 6. Workers across the US told The…
Sophia Ankel
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It's 'inexcusable' that Amazon asked staff to work during severe weather that collapsed a warehouse roof in Illinois, union says
"Our union will not back down until Amazon is held accountable for these and so many more dangerous…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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FEMA administrator says to expect deadly storms to be the 'new normal' as the impact of climate change becomes 'the crisis of our generation'
The remarks come after severe storms and tornadoes ravaged much of the Midwest and South on Friday,…
Bethany Biron
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Jeff Bezos criticized for celebrating Blue Origin launch before addressing Amazon warehouse collapse
Jeff Bezos' late acknowledgement of the devastating and deadly Amazon warehouse collapse was met wi…
Zahra Tayeb
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At least 6 are dead and more are missing in 'mass casualty incident' at Illinois Amazon warehouse roof collapse caused by severe weather
Deaths have now been confirmed at the Amazon warehouse in Illinois. The collapse is a result of tor…
Bethany Dawson
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Human-caused fires may have contributed to the extinction of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and other animals 13,000 years ago
Researchers say fires, possibly set by humans, led to the disappearance of dire wolves, sabertooth …
Jenny McGrath
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A tornado damaged homes and knocked out power in an Atlanta suburb
National Weather Service Atlanta issued a tornado warning in Atlanta and East Point, Georgia, and s…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Amazon employees speak out against controversial phone ban after deadly tornado kills at least 6 warehouse workers in Edwardsville, Illinois
Workers told Bloomberg they fear phone bans leave them without vital information about inclement we…
Bethany Biron
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Amazon shareholders are reportedly urging the company to audit its safety and surveillance practices after 6 workers died when their warehouse collapsed in a tornado
Shareholders want to audit surveillance practices and productivity quotas at Amazon, which they cal…
Sarah Jackson
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Oregon's Bootleg Fire is so big it's generating dangerous fire clouds and firestorms that can spark their own lightning
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it can create fire clouds and pyrocumulonimbus storms - eno…
Aylin Woodward
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Wildfires and record temperatures in Canada are generating 'fire-breathing' pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it creates pyrocumulonimbus clouds - enormous thunderheads …
Aylin Woodward
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A Rare Fire Tornado Sprung Up In Missouri
They are rapidly spinning vortices that form when air superheated by an intense wildfire rises rap…