Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Nino’s might brings record slow storm season.
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going.
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This summer isn’t breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say
Wildfires are burning in North America and Europe. Deadly heat waves have parked over cities and the world’s oceans are the hottest ever recorded for this time of year. A...
Wildfire smoke kills tens of thousands of people a year. Here’s how it attacks the body.
Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the human body, killing tens of thousands of people...
Meteorologists warn week ahead in US will have dangerous temps: ‘Heat is not to be played with’
Most of America’s Lower 48 states are about to swelter under an unusually large, strong and long-lasting heat dome that will spike temperatures in a way that the National Weather...
El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Nino, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says.
In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the...
New study finds ‘alarming’ high flood risk for 17 million Americans on Atlantic and Gulf coasts
More than 17 million people along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at the highest risk of being affected by flooding, with New York and New Orleans standing out,...
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.
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.