UN Climate Report: ‘Atlas of Human Suffering’ Worse, Bigger March 1, 2022 By Seth Borenstein Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make...
Extreme Wildfires Are Here to Stay – and Multiply February 23, 2022 By Gloria Dickie LONDON —Indonesia’s peatlands, California’s forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding...
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,...
Hurricane Ida, Europe Floods Made 2021 Costly For Disasters January 11, 2022 By Frank Jordans BERLIN (AP)–Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last...
Climate Change, New Construction Mean More Ruinous Fires January 3, 2022 By Martha Bellisle The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be...
Severe Brazil Flooding Spreads in Bahia and Beyond December 30, 2021 By Debora Alvares BRASILIA, Brazil (AP–A total of 116 cities in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia were in a state of emergency...
Forecaster Says Philippine Supertyphoon Rai ‘Exceeded All Predictions’ December 22, 2021 By Kanupriya Kapoor SINGAPORE–The rapid intensification that turned this week’s Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year surpassed...
Canada Flood Shows How Climate Change Could Fuel Atmospheric River Storms November 19, 2021 By Nichola Groom Atmospheric rivers of the kind that drenched California and flooded British Columbia in recent weeks will become larger — and...
Frustration, Defiance in Village to Be Abandoned to the Sea November 12, 2021 By Sylvia Hui “I wanted somewhere my children can have the same upbringing as I had, so they can run free,” said Eves,...
Charleston, Savannah See Abnormally High Tides During Storm November 9, 2021 CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A strong storm off the Southeast coast combined with periodic higher tides Sunday, causing coastal flooding...