US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.
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Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say
When the federal government in 2009 targeted carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as a public health danger because of climate change, it led to tighter regulation of pollution and...
Takeaways from the outcome of UN climate talks in Brazil
After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks ended Saturday with a compromise that some criticized as weak and others called progress.
EPA’s job is to protect America’s air, water and land. Here’s how a shutdown affects that effort
The Environmental Protection Agency was already reeling from massive stuff cuts and dramatic shifts in priority and policy. A government shutdown raises new questions about how it can carry out...
How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
Scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere summer is getting increasingly dangerous for both players and spectators.
Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swirling winds: Massive cuts to the federal...
Nearly half of National Weather Service offices have 20% vacancy rates, and experts say it’s a risk
After Trump administration job cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates — twice that of just a decade ago — as severe weather chugs...
US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say
The Trump administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency, four people familiar with the...
The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway.
The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of...
Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense
Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found.