Summer Is Already Off to a Wild Start July 2, 2021 By Brian K Sullivan Extreme temperatures in China coupled with a lack of hydro-power forced blackouts in some of its largest industrial cities last...
Fighting Climate Change in America Means Changes to America February 1, 2021 By Seth Borenstein Climate isn’t the only thing changing. What comes next in the nation’s struggle to combat global warming will probably transform...
Hot Again: 2020 Sets Yet Another Global Temperature Record January 15, 2021 By Seth Borenstein Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. While NASA and...
2020 Hit Temperature Record, Rounded Off Hottest Decade – EU Climate Service January 8, 2021 By Kate Abnett and Matthew Green BRUSSELS/LONDON — Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as...
The Stormy, Fiery Year When Climate Disasters Wouldn’t Stop December 11, 2020 By Seth Borenstein Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters. With the most named storms in the...
Houses in Hurricane Strike Zones are Built Back Bigger April 23, 2020 By University of Southhamptom A study of hurricane-hit areas of the United States has revealed a trend of larger homes being built to replace...
U.S. Had 14 Weather Disasters Costing $1 Billion or More in 2019 January 10, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. had 14 weather disasters costing $1 billion or more last year, with Midwest flooding accounting for almost half...
Deadly Australia Fires Spur Calls to Mitigate Disaster Risk January 8, 2020 By Emily Cadman As the devastation from Australia’s bushfires widens, the insurance industry is calling for concerted action to mitigate the impact of...
Disaster-Born Safety Rules Topple With Others in Trump Rollback November 22, 2019 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration’s move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer...
‘Falling Through the Cracks’: Vulnerable Homeowners Overlooked after Disasters April 16, 2019 By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON — It was the middle of the night when Yvonne Rawhouser’s neighbor woke her up to warn her that...