Extreme Weather

Scientists are increasingly drawing links between climate change and extreme weather events, either increasing the likelihood of heat waves, drought, hurricanes, heavy rainfall and snowstorms, or intensifying their effects.

Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding

By James Bruggers

Floodwater that swept down Pigeon Creek hit Eddie Fields' home in Pie, West Virginia, and many of his neighbors' homes in May 2009. New research shows the flood risk in strip-mined regions like his is rising. Credit: Logan Banner file photo

Climate Change Threatens 60% of Toxic Superfund Sites, GAO Finds

By Phil McKenna

The Gowanus Canal, once a bustling transportation and shipping route in Brooklyn, New York, was declared a Superfund cleanup site in 2010. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

As Climate Change Threatens Midwest's Cultural Identity, Cities Test Ways to Adapt

By Dan Gearino

Midwest flooding in the spring of 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

U.S. Military Bases Face Extra Month of Extreme Heat by Mid-Century as Planet Warms, Report Warns

By David Hasemyer

Marines with an 926th Engineer Brigade are loaded with gear to practice bridge construction at Fort Chafee, Arkansas, in late July 2018. Credit: Lance Cpl. Quentarius Johnson/U.S. Marine Corps

Another Rising Cost of Climate Change: PG&E's Blackouts to Prevent Wildfires

By Georgina Gustin

Firefighters battle the Kincade Fire in Healdsburg, California, on Oct. 27, 2019. Powerful winds spread fires in northern California with "potentially historic fire" conditions expected. Credit: Philip Pacheco/AFP/Getty Images

The History of Ancient Hurricanes Is Written in Sand and Mud

By SOPHIE RUEHR

Hurricane Lorenzo on Sept. 28, 2019, became the strongest hurricane on record in the eastern-most Atlantic Ocean as it headed toward the Azores. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System

A Shantytown’s Warning to the World from the Hurricane-Ravaged Bahamas

By Phil McKenna

People carried their possessions through what remained of The Mudd area of Great Abaco island on Sept. 5, 2019, five days after Hurricane Dorian struck with Category 5 winds and a powerful storm surge. Credit: Jose Jimenez/Getty Images

Climate Crisis Town Hall Tested Candidates' Boldness and Credibility

By Marianne Lavelle

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) answers questions at CNN's climate crisis town hall on Sept. 4, 2019. Credit: CNN video

Why Are Hurricanes Like Dorian Stalling, and Is Global Warming Involved?

By Bob Berwyn

Satellite infrared imagery shows Hurricane Dorian's eyewall over Grand Bahama Island on Sept. 2, 2019. Credit: NOAA GOES

Australia Cuts Outlook for Great Barrier Reef to ‘Very Poor’ for First Time

By JAMIE SMYTH, FINANCIAL TIMES

After a recent mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, researchers found a sharp drop there in the diversity of fish species that rely on reef habitats. Credit: Laura Richardson/ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

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