Where there’s smoke, there is fire. But with climate change, larger and longer-burning wildfires are sending smoke farther from their source, often to places that are unaccustomed to the exposure. That’s been the case this week, as smoke continues to drift south from massive wildfires in Canada, prompting warnings of hazardous air quality, and poor […]
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It’s not officially summer yet in the Northern Hemisphere. But the extremes are already here. Fires are burning across the breadth of Canada, blanketing parts of the eastern United States with choking, orange-gray smoke. Puerto Rico is under a severe heat alert as are other parts of the world. Earth’s oceans have heated up at […]
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One of the catchiest jingles on US television, “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,” may need a rewrite after the insurance giant announced that, as of Saturday, it would no longer offer home insurance to new customers in California. Existing insurance policies are not affected. According to a statement the company released on its website, […]
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This summer is likely to be hot in the U.S., and not just because it is typically the season of swelter. Ocean temperatures, soil moisture, forecast models and long-term trends are all contributing factors in predicting a warmer-than-normal summer this year. The coasts of New England could be hot because the Atlantic Ocean already feels […]
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At the United Nations climate summit in Egypt last year, Prime Minister Philip Davis of the Bahamas emerged as one of the most impassioned speakers among the more than 100 heads of state in attendance. “We have to believe that a safer, better future is possible,” he told the gathering. “We believe that action — […]
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When the floods hit in the northern Italian town of Lugo this past week, overflowing a local watercourse and sending water gushing into streets and the surrounding fields, Irinel Lungu, 45, retreated with his wife and toddler to the second floor of their home. As rescue workers navigated submerged streets in dinghies to deliver baby […]
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More than 12 million people remained under a heat advisory on Sunday in the Pacific Northwest as temperatures on Saturday soared to more than 20 degrees higher than normal in Oregon and Washington State and toppled records that in some cases had been standing for decades. “Record-breaking heat will impact the Pacific Northwest over the […]
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For the first time in months, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday showed the aggressive political instincts that his allies have long insisted he would demonstrate in a contest against former President Donald J. Trump. After headlining two successful political events in Iowa, Mr. DeSantis made an unscheduled stop in Des Moines — a move aimed […]
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A storm forecast to be the strongest to hit Myanmar in more than a decade is expected to make landfall near the Bangladesh border on Sunday, raising the prospect of a major humanitarian disaster. The storm, Cyclone Mocha, formed over the southern Bay of Bengal on Thursday and has been drenching western Myanmar as it […]
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A computational tool developed by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change pinpoints specific counties within the United States that are particularly vulnerable to economic distress resulting from a transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources. By combining county-level data on employment in fossil fuel (oil, natural […]
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I thought my grandmother was psychic. One day in the mid ’90s, in Richmond, Va., where I grew up, the temperature had climbed above 100 degrees as it often did during the height of summer. Everything seemed to be melting under the oppressive heat that day. My grandmother looked down and began to vigorously massage […]
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When frigid weather caused rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve across North Carolina, Eliana and David Mundula quickly grew worried about their 2½-week-old daughter, whom they had brought home days earlier from a neonatal intensive care unit. “The temperature was dropping in the house,” said Ms. Mundula, who lives in Matthews, south of Charlotte. “I became […]
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Forecasters from the World Meteorological Organization are reporting increased chances that the global climate pattern known as El Niño will arrive by the end of summer. With it comes increased chances for hotter-than-normal temperatures in 2024. While there is not yet a clear picture of how strong the El Niño event will be or how […]
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After a series of winter storms pummeled California this winter, thousands of trees across the state lost their grip on the earth and crashed down into power lines, homes, and highways. Sacramento alone lost more than 1,000 trees in less than a week. Stressed by years of drought, pests and extreme weather, urban trees are in […]
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The climate change discussion takes center stage, but water plays the most important supporting role. Water scarcity and quality are intimately connected to climate change with droughts and flooding increasing in severity each year. At the end of March, NYC ushered in UN Water Week to put the focus squarely on the role of water […]
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Five people died and others were injured in southeast Missouri early Wednesday after at least one tornado and other storms moved through the area, officials said. Sheriff Casey Graham of Bollinger County confirmed the deaths in a Facebook post on Wednesday and said that search-and-rescue operations were still underway. Sheriff Graham said that the Grassy […]
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Multiple injuries and fatalities were reported in southeast Missouri early Wednesday after at least one tornado and other storms moved through the area, a police official said. Sgt. Clark Parrott, a public information officer for the Missouri State Highway Patrol, said on Wednesday morning that multiple people had died, but that it was unclear how […]
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Up and down the high slopes of the Sierra Nevada, the barrage of heavy storms that deluged California this winter also left behind a giant frozen reservoir, one whose thawing will shape the next phase of what has already been a remarkably wet year for the drought-weary state. Snow, huge imposing walls of it, has […]
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It collapsed a theater in Illinois. Tossed cars in Little Rock, Ark. Flattened homes in Tennessee. And left thousands without power in New Jersey. The storm system that tore through the Midwest, South and Mid-Atlantic on Friday and Saturday carved a path of destruction that encompassed an area from Wisconsin to Delaware, south to Mississippi, […]
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As communities across the country on Sunday recovered from a powerful storm system that killed at least 27 people in seven states, they have only a couple of days before facing another round of severe weather. After destructive tornadoes and strong storms barreled through parts of the South, the Midwest and the East on Friday […]
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By Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola Photographs and Video by Laetitia Vancon Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola reported from Venice over years of floods, visiting MOSE’s headquarters and speaking with numerous officials and experts. April 1, 2023 In the middle of the night, as the tide rose, winds whipped and waves grew, an engineer in […]
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A large tornado was spotted near Little Rock, Ark., on Friday afternoon, prompting meteorologists there to evacuate as the National Weather Service declared it an “emergency.” The tornado is part of a complex and dangerous storm system that is poised to hit the Upper Midwest and South, forecasters said. Images from the city showed debris […]
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The place hardest-hit by a powerful tornado that tore through rural Mississippi appeared to be Rolling Fork, a Delta town known as the birthplace of the blues singer Muddy Waters, where flooding and tornadoes have long been concerns. Rolling Fork is a predominantly Black town of about 2,000 people in Sharkey County near the Mississippi […]
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“Oftentimes reporters are the first people to arrive at a place after it has been hit. That is a difficult experience.” Patricia Mazzei, Miami bureau chief During extreme weather, and related events such as wildfires and floods, we move quickly to bring vital information to those who need it, sending reporters and visual journalists to […]
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Emergency workers were surveying the damage from a large tornado that whipped through rural Mississippi on Friday night, flattening homes and trapping some residents. The tornado caused damage in Silver City and Rolling Fork, Miss., the National Weather Service office in Jackson said on Twitter. The agency issued rare tornado emergencies for parts of the […]
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James Reynolds was sitting at home scrolling through Twitter on Thursday night, when photos of the aurora borealis started to flood his timeline. Mr. Reynolds, a professional photographer who lives just outside Asheville, N.C., decided to load up his equipment and to drive with his wife and 10-year-old son to the Blue Ridge Parkway, a […]
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New York City’s springlike winter is on track to set a record: the least snowy season on the books. It’s likely, though by no means guaranteed, that the city will fall short of the lowest total snowfall accumulation since record-keeping began shortly after the Civil War. The National Weather Service station at Central Park has […]
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At least five people were killed and several others were injured on Tuesday by falling trees in California, where heavy rain and snow have repeatedly walloped weather-fatigued residents, officials said. Strong winds and precipitation associated with this week’s rush of dangerous storms were expected to subside on Wednesday before moving into the Southwest, the National […]
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will warn on Monday that a warming planet poses severe economic challenges for the United States, which will require the federal government to reassess its spending priorities and how it influences behavior. Administration economists, in an annual report, will say that reassessment should include a new look at the climate-adaptation […]
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A freight train that derailed in western Arizona on Wednesday night was carrying corn syrup, its operator said, hours after a report indicated that hazardous materials were on board. The accident near the town of Topock, Ariz., occurred less than six weeks after a train derailment in Ohio released toxic chemicals and prompted a national […]
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PAJARO, Calif. — It began as a trickle, seeping through a 74-year-old earthen levee in Northern California, dribs and drabs of the Pajaro River, swollen with rain yet again on Friday night. Then pools bubbled up on beyond the levee walls, spreading toward darkened fields of strawberries and lettuce. Four miles downstream, the farmworker community […]
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