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Floodwater surrounds vehicles following heavy rain on an expressway in Brooklyn, New York early on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, as flash flooding and record-breaking rainfall brought by the remnants of Storm Ida swept through the area.

How Ida’s inland path reveals hidden risk of hurricane floods

September 3, 2021 at 3:50 p.m.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida tore through New York, New Jersey and the Northeast early Thursday, dumping torrential rain that shut down transit systems, washed away streets and left several...

Western US bakes and East is deluged in a summer of extremes

August 24, 2021 at 10:05 a.m.

As the Western U.S. bakes and burns under an unprecedented heat dome, Henri leaves a deluged East Coast staggering after a summer of deadly floods and record-setting tropical storms. Climate...

The Bootleg Fire burns on July 12, 2021, in Bly, Oregon. The Bootleg Fire has spread over 212,377 acres, making it the largest among the dozens of blazes burning in the western U.S. fueled by record temperatures and drought.

Drought forces North America farmers to turn food crops to hay

July 23, 2021 at 9:56 a.m.

Drought is withering crops on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, prompting farmers to take the rare measure of baling up their wheat and barley stems to sell as hay....

Firefighters battle the Bond Fire, started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation, along Silverado Canyon Road on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 in Silverado, CA..

$1 billion disasters in US hit record number in 2020

January 11, 2021 at 1:09 p.m.

California fires, Atlantic hurricanes and a Midwest windstorm were among a record number of $1 billion disasters that hit the U.S. last year, highlighting the intensifying threat of climate change,...

Eta ties 2005 for the most Atlantic storms in a single year

November 2, 2020 at 11:57 a.m.

Tropical Storm Eta formed overnight in the Caribbean, becoming the Atlantic's 28th storm of 2020 and tying a 2005 record for the most named systems in a single year in...

Dry lightning risk rises in US West, thanks to tardy monsoon

July 6, 2020 at 3:22 p.m.

The annual monsoon that drenches the U.S. Southwest is late this year, raising the risk of wildfires sparked by another of the region's meteorological quirks: dry lightning. While heavy rain...

Pedestrians head for cover on Church St. during a soaking rain in downtown Orlando, Thursday, April 16, 2020. The rain is much-needed as Central Florida has been facing drought conditions. The weather will stick around, with the forecast calling for showers through Saturday.

Climate change brings summertime heat to Florida’s early spring

April 20, 2020 at 9:57 a.m.

Florida is caught between a climate change-induced sauna of extreme spring temperatures and a steam bath caused by warming oceans. The result has been record-setting heat that has turned April...

A young child wears a protective mask and is covered in plastic while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 7000 in mainland China Thursday as the country continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human.

Coronavirus and climate change could stretch FEMA past its limit

March 23, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.

WASHINGTON — It wasn't until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it was "leading the federal coordination" to...

Low hanging clouds blanket Downtown Los Angeles, obscuring the view of the towering buildings on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 in Los Angeles, Calif. A moisture-rich atmospheric river dumped rain across Southern California.

There are rivers in the sky drenching the US because of climate change

February 12, 2020 at 11:46 a.m.

Climate change is spurring a new, deep dive into a complex, little-studied weather system blamed for creating billions of dollars in flood damage across the western U.S. Atmospheric rivers are...

Floods from 5 rivers threaten South’s industrial corridors

June 16, 2018 at 7:58 a.m.

Brace yourself, U.S. South. The Mississippi River is coming, and so are the Arkansas, the Red, the Ohio and the Missouri. The water on the Mississippi River is already so...

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