The U.S. economy got sidetracked in February by tariff-related price increases, sluggish sales and the previous month’s Winter Storm Fern, but top executives were also more optimistic that business ...

Winter Storm Fern exposed deep structural fragility in the U.S. power grid, with outages affecting up to a million customers despite years of warnings from reliability watchdogs. Industry ...

An expert retained by the victims of the Fern Hollow bridge collapse said the three engineering firms contracted to inspect the span failed to uphold the standard of care required for professional ...

“Wow, we really dodged the bullet. Maybe a million customers lost service, but none of the grids went down. Anyway, you can’t really prepare for freak events. Congrats on a job well done!” You can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and airline labor. Unlucky American Airlines seemed on Thursday to have finally ...

Winter Storm Fern knocked out power for millions of people across the US and reignited a familiar political and media fight over what really causes large-scale outages during extreme weather. To ...

Your recent editorial on the winter grid emergency (“Thank Heaven for Coal Power in the Cold,” Jan. 26) highlights an uncomfortable reality: of the three legs of the energy trilemma—affordability, ...

A severe winter storm brought ice, snow, and freezing rain to the Louisiana-Arkansas region. Tens of thousands of residents in northern Louisiana experienced power outages. The storm, nicknamed Fern, ...

Winter Storm Fern led to insured property and auto losses estimated between $4 billion and $6.7 billion, impacting more than 30 states and slowing mortgage activity. AI Summary Data and analytics firm ...

A 66-year-old man in Daviess County is the 15th person to die in Kentucky because of the latest winter storm, Gov. Andy Beshear announced on X Jan. 31. Beshear's post just before 5 p.m. came hours ...

Winter Storm Fern delivered the kind of cold that grid operators and generators dread, driving up electricity demand, squeezing fuel systems and forcing regions to lean hard on dispatchable resources ...

Ferns, defined by large genomes, high chromosome counts, and pervasive aneuploidy as well as intraspecific polyploid complexity, diverge significantly from the classical genetic theories and ...