Extreme Weather in 2024 Forced Most People to Flee in 16 Years March 19, 2025 By Aaron Clark Extreme weather last year including typhoons, heatwaves and flooding led to the biggest displacement of people since 2008, and exacerbated...
A Nasty I of the Storm: Ida is 12th I Hurricane Name Retired April 29, 2022 By Seth Borenstein There’s something about hurricanes starting with the letter I that is particularly nasty. Last year’s Ida now joins the list...
Climate Change Extremes Spur UN Plan to Fund Weather Forecasting November 3, 2021 By Andrea Januta, Kanupriya Kapoor and Katy Daigle GLASGOW–As climate change triggers deadly heatwaves, droughts and floods, three U.N. agencies on Wednesday will roll out funding plans to...
Rising Global Temperatures ‘Inexorably Closer’ to Climate Tipping Point – U.N. May 27, 2021 By Andrea Januta There is now a 40% chance that global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the...
America’s New Normal: A Degree Hotter Than Two Decades Ago May 5, 2021 By Seth Borenstein America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about...
Assumptions About Hurricane Season Face Winds of Change March 18, 2021 By Seth Borenstein With named storms coming earlier and more often in warmer waters, some assumptions about the Atlantic hurricane season are being...
The Arctic is on Fire: Siberian Heat Wave Alarms Scientists June 25, 2020 By Daria Litvinova and Seth Borenstein MOSCOW — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists...
The Pandemic Has Started Weakening the World’s Weather Forecasts March 25, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The pandemic that has idled scores of commercial flights is having a little-noticed consequence for meteorologists, whose forecasts rely in...
This Year Hottest on Record Says UN Weather Agency December 1, 2015 By SETH BORENSTEIN Because of man-made global warming and a strong El Nino, Earth’s wild weather this year is bursting the annual heat...
El Nino Looking Likely This Year, Says U.S. Climate Center April 28, 2014 By Brian K. Sullivan The odds are increasing that an El Nino weather system will form this year, portending drought for Australia and Asia...