Poll Finds Americans Blame Wild Weather on Global Warming October 16, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN and EMILY SWANSON After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see...
U.S. Already Ties Record Year for Costly Weather Disasters October 9, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN Howling winds, deadly floods, fire and ice so far this year have pushed the U.S. into a tie for weather...
LexisNexis: Catastrophe Claims Rise as Losses Decline September 27, 2017 In 2016, Colorado and Texas homeowners suffered the greatest percentage of catastrophic losses due to extreme weather and other perils,...
Harvey Could Spark Debate on How, Where Americans Build Homes August 31, 2017 By Christopher Flavelle Jerry Garcia’s home in Corpus Christi missed the worst of Hurricane Harvey by just a few miles and lost nothing...
‘Hindcasting’ Study Investigates Extreme 2013 Colorado Flood July 25, 2017 In September 2013, severe storms struck Colorado with prolonged, heavy rainfall, resulting in at least nine deaths, 1,800 evacuations and...
In Odd Weather Twist, Rain Sparks Wildfire in California July 18, 2017 By Brian K. Sullivan Forest fires are picking up once again in California. The cause this time: rain and snow. Really, rain and snow?...
Weather Extremes Highlighted by Record Drought, Rainfall July 11, 2017 By Brian K. Sullivan Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River...
Study Finds Climate Change Has Touched Most of the World April 26, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN Most people on Earth have already felt extreme and record heat, drought or downpours goosed by man-made global warming, new...
More Extreme Weather Expected in 2017 March 23, 2017 Unusually warm weather in the Arctic is helping shift weather patterns this year from North America to the Middle East,...
NOAA Says Climate Change Aided Warmer Than Normal February March 13, 2017 A freakishly balmy February broke more than 11,700 local daily records for warmth in the United States, but it didn’t...