Extreme Weather

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Without immediate emissions cuts, global temperatures will breach the Paris Agreement’s goals sooner than expected, scientists say. ‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’

By Bob Berwyn

US Regions Will Suffer a Stunning Variety of Climate-Caused Disasters, Report Finds

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Lee Hedgepeth, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, Dylan Baddour, Aydali Campa, Wyatt Myskow, Marianne Lavelle and Kristoffer Tigue

Report Charts Climate Change’s Growing Impact in the US, While Stressing Benefits of Action

By Marianne Lavelle, Katie Surma, Kiley Price, Nicholas Kusnetz

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot

By Amy Green

New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

By Bob Berwyn

Q&A: Rich and Poor Nations Have One More Chance to Come to Terms Over a Climate Change ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”

Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Sprawling Conservation Area in Everglades Watershed

By Amy Green

 Q&A: After its Hottest Summer On Record, Phoenix’s Mayor Outlines the City’s Future

By Wyatt Myskow

As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention

By Lee Hedgepeth

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

By Bob Berwyn

At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions

By Jon Hurdle

First Floods, Now Fires: How Neglect and Fraud Hobbled an Alabama Town

By Lee Hedgepeth

For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

By Amy Green

In Miami, It’s No Coincidence Marginalized Neighborhoods Are Hotter

By Amy Green

What High Heat in the Classroom Is Doing to Millions of American Children

As Climate-Fueled Weather Disasters Hit More U.S. Farms, the Costs of Insuring Agriculture Have Skyrocketed

By Georgina Gustin

Summer of Record Heat Deals Costly Damage to Texas Water Systems

By Dylan Baddour

Florida Pummeled by Catastrophic Storm Surges and Life-Threatening Winds as Hurricane Idalia Makes Landfall

By Amy Green