Climate Extreme Weather
All Stories
-
![Digital collage of woman sleeping with an orange circle and red circle above her]()
![Digital collage of woman sleeping with an orange circle and red circle above her]()
Is it time for the world to take a siesta?
An idea from the past could provide a way to cope with extreme heat.
-
![A jogger runs along The Battery in Charleston, South Carolina, adjacent to a partially flooded East Bay Street.]()
![A jogger runs along The Battery in Charleston, South Carolina, adjacent to a partially flooded East Bay Street.]()
FEMA rolls out climate adaptation loans for small and overlooked communities
The federal disaster relief agency has taken heat for steering past resilience funds to whiter, wealthier areas.
-
![hurricane idalia house]()
![hurricane idalia house]()
2023 has already broken the US record for billion-dollar climate disasters
And there are still four months to go.
-
![]()
![]()
Parts of the world have already grown too hot for human survival
Even more areas will face such conditions as the planet continues to warm from fossil fuel combustion.
-
![]()
![]()
Environmentalists sue Utah for failing to protect the shrinking Great Salt Lake
Researchers warn that the lake may disappear in five years if water loss continues at current rates.
-
![A person kneels beneath a tree as the sun dips below the horizon after a hot day in Missouri.]()
![A person kneels beneath a tree as the sun dips below the horizon after a hot day in Missouri.]()
The planet just sizzled through the hottest summer on record
Scientists have long warned that scorching summers — marked by heat waves, freak storms, and drought — could become the norm.
-
![]()
![]()
Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun
Protesters highlighted the festival’s carbon footprint, but the biggest issue may be Burning Man’s opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.
-
![]()
![]()
Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths
"The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world."
-
![wildfire in Louisiana]()
![wildfire in Louisiana]()
Even the bayous of Louisiana are now threatened by wildfires
In just one month, 7 times more acres burned than in an average year.
-
![A person canoes through flooded streets in Tarpon Springs, Florida after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023.]()
![A person canoes through flooded streets in Tarpon Springs, Florida after Hurricane Idalia passed offshore on August 30, 2023.]()
‘You can’t survive this’: Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida’s most vulnerable coast
Officials and residents said the rural Big Bend region was wholly unprepared for the Category 3 storm.
