New Abnormal: Climate Disaster Damage ‘Down’ to $268 Billion December 13, 2022 By Seth Borenstein This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest U.S. hurricanes...
Study: Four Major Tipping Points Close to Triggering Hotter Temps September 15, 2022 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping...
Decade Old Climate Report Warned of Extreme Weather September 14, 2022 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Record high temperatures in urban Europe as heat waves bake the planet more often. Devastating floods, some in poorer unprepared...
18 Wildfires in Oregon, Washington Lead to Evacuations September 12, 2022 By RACHEL LA CORTE There were 18 large wildfires burning in Oregon and Washington Saturday, leading to evacuations and targeted power outages in Oregon...
Weather Whiplash: Summer Lurches from Drought to Flood August 24, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a...
Worst Fire Conditions in a Decade Put Kansas to West Texas at Risk April 12, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan Some of the worst fire conditions in a decade are going to sweep across Texas and the southern Great Plains,...
Storms Batter Aging Power Grid as Climate Disasters Spread April 7, 2022 Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs...
Deadly Extreme Weather Year For US as Carbon Emissions Soar January 12, 2022 By Seth Borenstein The United States staggered through a steady onslaught of deadly billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in an extra hot 2021,...
Washington State Sees More Flooding, Next Storm Approaches December 1, 2021 BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Localized flooding in Washington state from another in a series of rainstorms doesn’t appear to be...
Summer Storms Were a Climate-Change Wake-Up Call For Subways October 8, 2021 By Philip Marcelo and David Porter NEW YORK (AP) — When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record-breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases...