Extreme Weather

A New Hurricane Season Begins With Forecasts For Less Activity but More Uncertainty

As Floridians continue to grapple with the devastation of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, scientists are wondering how two different weather patterns will affect the coming season.

By Amy Green

Global Warming Fueled Both the Ongoing Floods and the Drought That Preceded Them in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna Region

By Bob Berwyn, Photography by Michele Lapini

What’s ‘Climate Colonialism?’ Typhoon Mawar’s Carnage in Guam Offers Insight

By Kristoffer Tigue

James Hansen Warns of a Short-Term Climate Shock Bringing 2 Degrees of Warming by 2050

By Bob Berwyn

A Fifth of the World Could Live With Dangerous Heat by 2100, New Study Warns

By Kristoffer Tigue

Water, Water Everywhere, Yet Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing Their Estimates

By Charlie Miller

Warming and Drying Climate Puts Many of the World’s Biggest Lakes in Peril

By Bob Berwyn

How Wildfire Smoke from Australia Affected Climate Events Around the World

By Bob Berwyn

Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe

By Bob Berwyn

More Than a Decade of Megadrought Brought a Summer of Megafires to Chile

Story and Photos by James Whitlow Delano

A University of Maryland Health Researcher Probes the Climate Threat to Those With Chronic Diseases

By Aman Azhar

California Snowpack May Hold Record Amount of Water, With Significant Flooding Possible

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A New Report Is Out on Hurricane Ian’s Destructive Path. The Numbers Are Horrific

By Amy Green

Flood-Prone Communities in Virginia May Lose a Lifeline if Governor Pulls State Out of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Emma Ricketts

In the Deluged Mountains of Santa Cruz, Residents Cope With Compounding Disasters

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

By Danish Bajwa

Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’

By Bob Berwyn