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A Warmer Climate Means Bigger Hail

New attribution research shows how extra heat in the atmosphere can turn thunderstorms into factories for dangerous, softball-size hail.

By Bob Berwyn

People take cover as a thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy hail, sweeps through Paris on May 3, 2025. Credit: Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images
A car is crushed by a fallen tree as the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal hit Detroit in June 2020. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Hurricane and Tropical Storm Remnants Impact the Midwest, Too

By Susan Cosier

Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee at a Town Hall press conference in December 2024 announced the town is suing Duke Energy because it allegedly deceived the public about the validity of climate change. Credit: Town of Carrboro

Is Duke Energy Liable for Climate-Related Property Damage After Funding Denialist Campaigns?

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of Bayou La Batre. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Children of the Storm

By Lee Hedgepeth

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Experts Fear Trump’s Cuts Will End in a Repeat Catastrophe

By Kiley Price

Red “no swimming” flags dot Brighton Beach amid Hurricane Erin on Wednesday in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Atlantic Shore Towns Feel Hurricane Erin’s Sting Without It Ever Making Landfall

By Kiley Price

Supercharged Hurricanes Mean More ‘Ghost Boats’ Haunting Waterways

By Kiley Price

Students from Northern Illinois University prepare to launch a weather balloon to capture data on temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction. Credit: National Science Foundation ICECHIP

As Climate Change Makes Hail More Destructive, Illinois Residents Pay the Price

By Susan Cosier

Klie Kliebert (right) works with the Imagine Water Works team on plans for the climate justice nonprofit’s sanctuary farm in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. Credit: Audrey Gray/Inside Climate News

Out in the Storm

By Audrey Gray

A woman wears a poncho to protect herself from wind-blown rain during a rare spring nor’easter in Boston on May 22. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast

By Bob Berwyn

A washed away road in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Chantal on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images

Chantal Wreaks Havoc in North Carolina as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal

By Lisa Sorg

A dust storm approaches Bloomington, Ill., on May 16. Credit: Jason Borchardt/Chicago NWS

Severe Weather, Uncertain Funding: What’s It Like to be a Local Emergency Manager These Days?

By Alexia Underwood

Extreme Weather Slams the Midwest and Southern U.S. Amid Staffing Shortages at the National Weather Service

By Kiley Price

Volunteers help Tim Striegel clean up after his mobile home was hit by a tornado on March 16 in Calera, Ala. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images

Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service

By Dennis Pillion

Crews work before dawn to clear snow from the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a winter storm hits Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Another Polar Vortex Is Blasting the U.S. With Harsh Winter Weather. So How Is Climate Change Involved?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Hurricane Hilary southwest of the Baja Peninsula on Friday, August 18, 2023. Credit: NOAA

Unusual Pacific Storms Like Hurricane Hilary Could be a Warning for the Future

By Bob Berwyn

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