What Policies Have Worked to Fight Climate Change? Answer: When the Polluter Pays. August 27, 2024 By Seth Borenstein To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have...
Hurricanes Get the Headlines But Inland Flooding Tops the Disaster List July 25, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people...
Earth Continues Streak of Record-Shattering Hot Months July 9, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Earth’s more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service...
How the Hot Water That Fueled Hurricane Beryl Foretells a Scary Storm Season July 3, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and...
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...