Climate Change Amplifies Deadly Heat Wave Sweeping Across Southwestern US, Mexico June 24, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking...
Climate Change Blamed on Deadly Heat Wave in Mexico, Southwest US June 21, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking...
Study: California’s 2023 Snowy Rescue from Megadrought a Freak Event May 1, 2024 By Brittany Peterson and Seth Borenstein Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from...
Here’s Why Experts Don’t Think Cloud Seeding Caused Dubai Flooding April 26, 2024 By Seth Borenstein and Brittany Peterson With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched...
Midwest Tornado Outbreak Linked to Record Winter Warmth March 19, 2024 By Seth Borenstein This winter’s record warmth provided the key ingredient for a Midwest outbreak of deadly tornadoes and damaging gorilla hail that...
Category 6? As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want a Bigger Hurricane Category February 7, 2024 By Seth Borenstein A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a...
Hurricanes Now Twice as Likely to Spin Up From Minor to Whopper, Study Says October 23, 2023 By Seth Borenstein With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify...
US Already Sets Record for Yearly Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters October 2, 2023 By Seth Borenstein The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for...
US Already Sets Record for Yearly Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters September 13, 2023 By Seth Borenstein The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for...
How Much Would Carbon Damage Cost if Corporations Paid for Their Emissions? September 1, 2023 By Seth Borenstein The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they...