Extreme Weather
Phoenix is Enduring its Hottest Month on Record, But Mitigations Could Make the City’s Heat Waves Less Unbearable
By Wyatt Myskow
Record-Breaking Rains in Chicago Underscore the Urgency of Flood Resiliency Projects, City Officials Say
By Aydali Campa
New York, LA, Chicago and Houston, the Nation’s Four Largest Cities, Are Among Those Hardest Hit by Heat Islands
By Aydali Campa
Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups
By Aman Azhar
This Summer’s Heatwaves Would Have Been ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Human-Caused Warming, a New Analysis Shows
By Bob Berwyn
A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis
By Liza Gross
As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions
By Juanita Gordon
As Texas Cranks Up the AC, Congested Transmission Lines Cause Renewable Power to Go to Waste
By Keaton Peters
Midwest States, Often Billed as Climate Havens, Suffer Summer of Smoke, Drought, Heat
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Chloe Johnson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points
By Bob Berwyn
Extreme Heat Is Already Straining the Mexican Power Grid
By Gina Jiménez
Rainfall Extremes Increasingly Threaten Mountain Regions and Areas Downstream From Them
By Bob Berwyn
As Youngkin Tries to Pull Virginia Out of RGGI, Experts Warn of Looming Consequences for Low-Income Residents and Threatened Communities
By Jake Bolster
Climate Change Made the Texas Heat Wave More Intense. Renewables Softened the Blow
By Kristoffer Tigue
Texas Cities Set Temperature Records in Unremitting Heat Wave
By Dylan Baddour
How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time
By David Sassoon