`Recipe for Flooding’ Threatens Great Plains Wheat on Red River March 20, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Michael Hirtzer As the Midwest recovers from record flooding, cities and towns along the Red River in Minnesota, North Dakota and Canada...
Rapid Thaw Wreaks Havoc on Pipes, Roadways in Midwest February 4, 2019 By COREY WILLIAMS Much of the Midwest experienced a rapid thaw after last week’s polar vortex sent wind chill temperatures plummeting below minus-50...
Florence Flooding Concerns Worry N.C.’s Neighboring States September 18, 2018 By CHUCK BURTON With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food...
Winter to Take Another Swipe at the Northeast This Week March 5, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan Winter isn’t done with the Northeast just yet. For the second time in a week, a storm promises to barrel...
Historic Homes in Houston Decimated by Harvey Floods March 1, 2018 By NANCY SARNOFF, Houston Chronicle On a recent Friday morning Sam Scott walked through his Texas house for the last time. The Houston Chronicle reports...
Worst Global Weather Threat Isn’t Hurricanes January 17, 2018 By Nathaniel Bullard, Bloomberg View The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week released its list of climate events that have had the greatest economic...
California Highway Will Remain Closed for Another Week After Mudslides January 17, 2018 By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Crews working around the clock cleared boulders, trees and crushed cars from all lanes of U.S. 101, but California officials...
FEMA Reflects on Historic Year of Catastrophes January 4, 2018 2017 will be a year remembered for the catastrophic disasters that resulted in 59 major disaster declarations, 16 emergency declarations...
North America Pounded by Disasters in 2017 January 3, 2018 By SETH BORENSTEIN North America couldn’t catch a break in 2017. Parts of the United States were on fire, underwater or lashed by...
Warming to Make Thunderstorms Larger and More Frequent in U.S. November 22, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN Summer thunderstorms in North America will likely be larger, wetter and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent...