These Roads Aren’t Built for Wilder Weather Driven by Climate Change February 13, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis California’s Highway One, stretching more than 650 miles along the Pacific Coast, is one of America’s most popular roadways because...
It’s ‘Virtually Certain’ the World Has Already Breached 1.5C Warming Limit February 11, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis The world may have already missed its chance to limit global warming to 1.5C, according to two new studies in...
Damaging Megadroughts Are Spreading Around the World January 17, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Nature...
Asheville’s Dirty Water Warns of Climate Risk to Aging US Infrastructure October 18, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis, Zahra Hirji and Michael Smith Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated swaths of the southeastern US by bringing too much water. Now, communities are struggling with...
American Dams Weren’t Built for Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods October 3, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis and Leslie Kaufman As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the...
Is Heat Causing Branches to Fall Off Trees? Scientists Aren’t Sure August 22, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across...
On a Warming Planet, Outdoor Concerts Need a New Safety Playbook June 14, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Just before Ana Clara Benevides lost consciousness, she likely found it hard to breathe. Packed with 60,000 people in Rio...
Extreme Weather Is Driving More US Power Outages, Studies Show May 3, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis For decades, residents of eastern Queens in New York City have complained that they’re more likely to lose power when...
Rising Sea Levels Increase Threat of Arsenic in Drinking Water: Study March 4, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis Rising seas due to climate change could exacerbate the threat of arsenic in drinking water, according to a study published...
Unusually Warm Atlantic Ocean Is Supercharging Hurricane Idalia August 29, 2023 By Kendra Pierre-Louis and Brian K. Sullivan Hurricane Idalia, now a Category 1 storm, is expected to make landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday. The hurricane’s...