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09/12/23 ...billion dollar disasters. 2023 is #1 with 4 months still to go
By Christopher Flavelle 09/12/23
The United States has suffered 23 billion-dollar disasters so far in 2023, a record for this point in the year that highlights the country’s struggle to adapt to the effects of climate change. The list,…
By Brady Dennis 09/12/23
Hurricane Idalia, which barreled through the Big Bend region of Florida late last month before battering other communities in Georgia and the Carolinas, thankfully wasn’t…
By Rebecca Falconer 09/12/23
The U.S. experienced 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first eight months of 2023 — the largest number since records began. Driving…
By Seth Borenstein 09/12/23
The deadly fires in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the U.S. to a record for the number of weather disasters that…
By Bob Henson 09/11/23
Dozens of places from Arizona to Florida had their hottest months on record during one of the most scorching stretches in U.S. history, a disaster…
By Gloria Oladipo 09/11/23
With four months of 2023 still left, the US has set a record for the most natural disasters in a single year that have cost…
By Jonathan Erdman 08/09/23
The count of billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States so far in 2023 has already reached 15, according to a new government report, and…
09/06/23 ...unprecedented rain, floods, fires, smoke and deadly heat
Image By CCR + AI By Lois Parshley 09/06/23
On Labor Day, you could drive from Minnesota’s border with Canada all the way to where Louisiana hits the Gulf of Mexico and not encounter a high under 90 degrees. The heat hasn’t broken: Today,…
By Joshua Partlow 09/20/23
In more than a half century since the Clean Air Act was enacted, there have been dramatic improvements in air quality in the United States,…
By Angely Mercado 09/15/23
The climate crisis is going to expose more of the world to both hotter weather and heavy rainfall. This could create dangerous flood conditions new…
By Angely Mercado 09/07/23
Sky-high temperatures and brutal heat waves have scorched the planet these past three months, creating the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record, the UN’s World…
By Andrew Freedman 09/05/23
The first of many batches of temperature data is in for August — and not only did the globe have its hottest such month on…
By Matt Simon 08/29/23
Summer is coming to an end, and what a summer it has been. The various catastrophes that scientists had warned about—extreme heat, flooding, wildfires—hit full-tilt…
By Chris Cameron 08/26/23
More than 57 million people in the American South and Southwest were under an excessive heat warning on Saturday afternoon — the most severe category…
By Ian Livingston and Matthew Cappucci 08/25/23
As has been the case for much of the summer, a relentless heat dome, or sphere of excessive heat and dangerous humidity, is baking a…
By Andrew Freedman 08/25/23
A simultaneous spate of extreme heat events have broken longstanding, all-time records on multiple continents this week. Why it matters: Extreme heat events are the…
By Elizabeth Sander 08/24/23
The extreme heat facing Texas is straining the power grid and ERCOT might need to initiate emergency conditions that could result in rolling blackouts across…
By Andrew Freedman 08/21/23
The era of simultaneous climate disasters is here to stay. This new reality is now on full display from Texas to the Northwest Territories of…
By Maggie Miles and Anna Betts 08/19/23
In front of a fire station in Palm Springs, Calif., residents crowded around a pit of sand on Saturday afternoon under gray clouds, using shovels…
By Rebecca Falconer 08/18/23
A "dangerous," intensifying heat wave was forecast to bring numerous daily high record temperatures in the Central and Southeast U.S. from Friday and expand to…
By Zack Budryk 08/16/23
The Gulf of Mexico reached record heat in the first half of August, setting the stage for an intense hurricane season in a region that…
By Andrew Freedman 08/14/23
A climate science debate is simmering over how much of 2023's record warmth is due to human-caused factors, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, and…
By Eric Roston 08/11/23
At least 55 people are dead and hundreds of homes incinerated after tail winds from a hurricane stoked wildfires on Maui. Much of Lahaina, once…
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters 08/10/23
The deadliest and most destructive U.S. wildfires of 2023 thus far swept through Hawai‘i on Tuesday night and Wednesday, Aug. 8-9. At least 36 deaths…
08/09/23
Extreme heat and heat waves in the United States and around the world are some of the clearest impacts of climate change on extreme weather.
By Naureen S Malik 08/08/23
Texas power prices for Sunday surged more than 800% as searing heat pushes demand toward record levels and strains supplies on the state grid.
By Matthew Cappucci and Ian Livingston 08/07/23
A serious and uncommonly widespread outbreak of severe thunderstorms is expected in the eastern United States, affecting more than 50 million people from Georgia to…
By Ariel Wittenberg 08/04/23
Water breaks will no longer be guaranteed for construction workers in Austin and Dallas when a new state law that prevents municipalities from regulating everything…
By Elena Shao 08/03/23
Brutal heat waves have baked the world this summer and they haven’t been contained to land. Earth’s oceans are the hottest they have been in…
By Seth Borenstein 08/02/23
Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily,…
By Ian Livingston 08/02/23
July 2023 will go down as the hottest month on record across the globe, and perhaps the hottest in at least 120,000 years, according to…
By Marina Koren 08/02/23
The ocean off the coast of southern Florida is having a long, hot summer. For weeks, surface temperatures hovered around 90 degrees Fahrenheit, before dropping…
By Oliver Milman 08/01/23
The punishing heatwaves that have scorched much of the US could result in a record number of heat-related deaths this year, experts have warned, amid…
By Michael Wysession 07/31/23
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the weather in 2023.
By Timothy Puko 07/28/23
The United States is setting records for natural gas consumption this week at the power plants that keep the nation’s air conditioners humming, according to…
By Tim Meko and Dan Stillman 07/28/23
The Earth’s oceans have never been warmer. Every day since late March, the world’s average sea surface temperature has been well above the previous highest…
By Raymond Zhong 07/27/23
Weeks of scorching summer heat in North America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere are putting July on track to be Earth’s warmest month on record, the…
By Jenna Russell, Erin Nolan and Judson Jones 07/27/23
New York City’s power company asked customers to cut back on electricity use Thursday afternoon, and Philadelphia declared a health emergency as the dangerous heat…
By Ajit Niranjan 07/27/23
The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said after scientists…
By Andrew Freedman 07/27/23
Scorching heat waves on three continents, unprecedented ocean temperatures along with global average temperature records are prompting scientists to predict July will clinch the title…
By Aya Elamroussi and Eric Zerkel 07/27/23
Heat is intensifying for millions of people in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic Thursday, creating a “heat health emergency” as nearly half of the country bakes…
By Damian Carrington 07/25/23
The human-caused climate crisis is undeniably to blame for the deadly heatwaves that have struck Europe and the US in recent weeks, scientists have shown.
By Michael J. Coren 07/25/23
Earlier this summer, officials from the U.N. weather agency admitted they’re still figuring out how to tell 8 billion people around the world what constitutes…
08/28/23 ...hurricanes, particularly Idalia
By William B. Davis, Judson Jones, Bea Malsky, John Keefe and Madison Dong 08/30/23
Idalia remained a Category 3 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as of early Wednesday Eastern time, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane had sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. Idalia was…
By Jacob Lambert 08/31/23
While it appears that Hurricane Idalia may not have been as destructive as initally feared the storm still incurred plenty of damage, with heavy rains…
By Alex Fitzpatrick and Kavya Beheraj 08/31/23
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, getting the power back on as quickly as possible will be one of the most pressing challenges —…
By Kevin Liptak 08/30/23
President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged enduring support for Americans affected by Hurricane Idalia and the Hawaii wildfires while making clear he’s ready to blame…
By Judson Jones and Hogla Enecia Pérez 08/30/23
While the eye of the storm was expected to stay well away from land, tropical storm conditions were expected in Bermuda on Wednesday.
By Bill McKibben 08/30/23
Of all the astonishing facts about our blithe remaking of the world’s climate system, the most astonishing might be this: if oceans didn’t cover seventy…
By Victoria Kim 08/30/23
Idalia was making its way through South Carolina overnight on Thursday, dumping heavy rains, flooding streets and imperiling coastal communities with the double threat of…
08/30/23
Florida’s Big Bend, one of the last truly natural places in the state, was the bull’s eye of Hurricane Idalia. It is the first major…
By Patricia Mazzei, Johnny Diaz and Judson Jones 08/29/23
Tropical Storm Idalia, forecast to land in the southeastern United States as the first major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic season, moved closer to the…
By Emma Kinery 08/29/23
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Florida as Hurricane Idalia approaches and strengthens. Idalia is projected to grow to a Category 3 hurricane…
By Haiyan Jiang 08/29/23
Forecasters are watching several factors, but the biggest is the very high sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf is typically warm…
By Abigail Geiger and Others 08/29/23
Hurricane Idalia continued to power toward Florida on Wednesday morning with wind speeds of about 120 miles per hour, as its rain bands lashed Florida’s…
By Jeeva Langa 08/28/23
Idalia had grown into a tropical depression by Saturday, fully a day or two ahead of schedule, only for a NOAA reconnaissance flight on Sunday…
By Ian Livingston 08/28/23
A relentless heat dome that has parked over the Gulf Coast region for much of summer reached a climax late last week and this weekend,…
By Jeff Masters And Bob Henson 08/28/23
Hurricane warnings and storm surge warnings are flying for portions of the Gulf Coast of Florida, as Tropical Storm Idalia has begun its northward march…
By Olivia George 08/28/23
Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to enter a record-hot Gulf of Mexico, prompting concerns the system may rapidly strengthen before striking Florida’s west coast later…
By Andrew Freedman 08/28/23
Tropical Storm Idalia may be following the path of many previous storms, but it is about to encounter Gulf of Mexico waters that are record…
By Christina Nunez and Allie Yang 05/17/23
Hurricanes combine unyielding winds and torrential rain to create some of Earth’s most powerful storms. When hurricanes near land, wind can cause devastating damage, even…
08/25/23 ...Fossil Fuel Subsidies Just Keep Growing
By Ben Geman 08/25/23
Well over a decade after high-profile international vows to rein in subsidies for producing and using fossil fuels, they remain deeply woven into government policies. Driving the news: Two new reports reach similar conclusions, 14…
08/31/23
Global subsidies for fossil fuels reached $7 trillion in 2022, an all-time high, according to the International Monetary Fund. An analysis of policies in 170…
By Nathaniel Bullard 08/31/23
The world is headed for a record year of investment in the energy transition. Every new clean electron generated by wind turbines and solar arrays,…
By Simon Black, Ian Parry and Nate Vernon 08/24/23
Fossil-fuel subsidies surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by…
By Simon Black, Antung A. Liu and Others 08/24/23
This paper provides a comprehensive global, regional, and country-level update of: (i) efficient fossil fuel prices to reflect supply and environmental costs; and (ii) subsidies…
05/03/23
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing entitled, “Who Pays the Price:…
03/09/23
U.S. President Joe Biden will propose a budget that would scrap oil and gas industry subsidies, according to a document seen by Reuters, reviving a…
By Toru Muta and Musa Erdogan 02/16/23
Fossil fuel consumption subsidies worldwide soared in 2022, rising above USD 1 trillion for the first time, according to new IEA estimates, as turmoil in…
By Jocelyn Timperley 10/20/21
Fossil-fuel subsidies are one of the biggest financial barriers hampering the world’s shift to renewable energy sources. Each year, governments around the world pour around…
By Sujatha Bergen and Susan Casey-Lefkowitz 09/15/21
As Congress works on a much-needed clean energy package, it is a no-brainer to eliminate antiquated and costly subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. Legislation…
04/01/14
Every year, oil, gas, and coal companies harvest billions of dollars in Federal subsidies. Below are 6 essential facts every taxpayer should know about these…
08/15/23 ...The Inflation Reduction act, on its first birthday
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For decades, the U.S. exported jobs and imported products, while other countries surpassed us in critical sectors like infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors, and biotechnology. Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – including historic…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw 08/17/23
U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday used the first anniversary of his signature Inflation Reduction Act to pitch the landmark clean-energy law as an economic…
08/16/23
Sure, inflation has been reduced from 8.3% to 3.2% since the passage a year ago of the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA). But the intended purpose…
By Leslie Kaufman 08/16/23
It’s been exactly one year since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, securing a core part of his domestic agenda with what’s by…
By Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle 08/16/23
One year ago, President Joe Biden inked the largest investment in fighting climate change in United States history. That law, called the Inflation Reduction Act…
By Matt Egan 08/16/23
Rural Mingo County, West Virginia, is one of America’s poorest counties. Nearly one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, only a third of…
08/16/23
One year ago today, President Biden and Congress ushered in a new era of U.S. climate progress with the passage and signing of the Inflation…
By Alicia Zhao and Haewon McJeon 08/16/23
The US has an important role to play in limiting climate change as the world’s second-largest emitter and the country with the greatest historical responsibility…
By Emma Dumain 08/16/23
President Joe Biden and his Cabinet are celebrating the first year of their massive climate law. But his party’s climate hawks are just as worried…
By Emily Pontecorvo 08/16/23
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment in tackling climate change the United States has ever made. The…
By Janet L. Yellen 08/15/23
When I gave my first major climate speech in the late 1990s, many still regarded the effects of climate change to be abstract and remote.…
By Ben Geman 08/14/23
The year since passage of the big climate law has brought over $100 billion in U.S. solar and storage company investments. Why it matters: New…
By Leah C. Stokes 08/14/23
Last April, I decided to break up with my gas company. It wasn’t me; it was them. Like so many other fossil-fuel companies, SoCalGas was…
08/14/23
One year after the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, private industry has announced at least 210 major new…
By Justin Sink 08/14/23
Joe Biden is leading an administration-wide effort to mark the one-year anniversary of the Democrats’ landmark climate and drug pricing legislation whose implementation officials are…
08/14/23
As Prepared for Delivery. Thank you. It’s great to be here in Las Vegas with all of you. I want to especially thank Lamar for…
By Justin Worland 08/11/23
In late July, I visited a steel mill in Gallatin, Ky., operated by the company Nucor. During my visit, I watched as the facility churned…
By Oliver Milman 08/11/23
The US’ first serious legislative attempt to tackle the climate crisis, the Inflation Reduction Act, is hitting its first anniversary both lauded for turbocharging a…
07/25/23
Since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)'s landmark climate and clean energy investments became law in August 2022, companies have been racing forward with massive investments…
By John Bistline , Geoffrey Blanford and Others 06/29/23
If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2°C; however, parties are not on track to deliver…
08/14/23 ...a Montana ruling in favor of 16 youths in a landmark climate case
By Dana Drugmand 08/14/23
Sixteen young Montanans have accomplished something unprecedented in U.S. history – holding their government accountable for exacerbating the climate crisis and thereby violating their fundamental constitutional rights. In a ruling released August 14, 2023, district…
08/14/23
On March 13, 2020, sixteen Montana youth (collectively Plaintiffs or Youth Plaintiffs) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (Doc. 1) against State of Montana, the Governor, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Montana Department…
By David Gelles 08/15/23
The state of Montana has a constitutional obligation to protect its residents from climate change. That was the stunning ruling from a judge who delivered…
By Lesley Clark 08/15/23
A landmark court decision that Montana is violating its youngest residents’ rights to a clean and healthful climate could have legal repercussions well beyond the…
08/14/23
In an historic first, Judge Kathy Seeley in the First Judicial District Court of Montana ruled wholly in favor of the 16 youth plaintiffs in…
By Jacob Knutson 08/14/23
A judge in Montana ruled on Monday that the state violated the state constitutional rights of 16 young people by promoting the use of fossil…
By David Gelles and Mike Baker 08/14/23
A group of young people in Montana won a landmark lawsuit on Monday when a judge ruled that the state’s failure to consider climate change…
By Kate Selig 08/14/23
In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their…
By Lesley Clark 08/04/23
Young people suing Hawaii’s transportation agency for contributing to climate change will go to trial next June, becoming the second group of youth in the…
By Lesley Clark 06/23/23
Sixteen young people who sued the state of Montana over its deference to the fossil fuel industry wrapped up the nation’s first youth-led climate trial…
03/30/23
YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to…
08/11/23 ...Maui and the 2nd deadliest wildfire in U.S. history
By Susanne Rust, Hayley Smith and Dorany Pineda 08/11/23
Drought. Howling winds. Plummeting humidity. Tinder-dry grass. A historic city of exposed wood structures in a thirsty rain shadow. To a Californian, many of the factors that appear to have coalesced into a catastrophic fire…
By The Associated Press 09/10/23
Richie Olsten has been in Maui's helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he's developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars…
By Kevin Liptak 08/30/23
President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged enduring support for Americans affected by Hurricane Idalia and the Hawaii wildfires while making clear he’s ready to blame…
08/30/23
Since the onset of the unprecedented wildfires on Maui, Hawaiʻi, President Biden launched a whole-of-government effort to support survivors and affected communities, and as soon…
By The Associated Press 08/29/23
Hawaii’s electric utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire on Maui but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene,…
By Ivan Penn 08/28/23
Even before the inferno that engulfed the Maui resort of Lahaina is fully contained, local officials and Hawaii’s leading utility are at odds over a…
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske 08/22/23
Some 850 people are still missing after the wildfires that torched parts of Maui and devastated the historic town of Lahaina, according to local officials,…
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L.Green 08/21/23
President Biden toured the scorched remains of Lahaina, a coastal town on the Hawaiian island of Maui, on Monday in his first visit since devastating…
By Jacey Fortin 08/21/23
The search for victims presses on, the number who perished continues to rise, and the names of the dead are slowly emerging.
By Naomi Klein and Kapua 'ala Sproat' 08/17/23
All over Maui, golf courses glisten emerald green, hotels manage to fill their pools and corporations stockpile water to sell to luxury estates. And yet,…
By Tom Hays 08/17/23
The sticky notes began collecting on an easel outside the Lahaina fire evacuation center in Wailuku, Maui, as soon as it opened last week.
By Peter Baker 08/16/23
President Biden will travel to the Hawaiian island of Maui on Monday to view the damage from raging wildfires that devastated much of a coastal…
By Tim Arango 08/16/23
DNA specialists who have been working with Ukrainian investigators to document suspected Russian war crimes. Veterans of the post-Sept. 11 search at ground zero. Anthropologists…
By Damien Cave 08/16/23
As Vene Chun guided his Hawaiian canoe to shore past tourists learning to surf at one of Maui’s public beaches, his thoughts were a jumble.
08/15/23
The county is seeking to recover the costs of climate-fueled disasters Big Oil knowingly caused — including increasingly destructive wildfires.
By Robert Hart and Mary Whitfill Roeloffs 08/15/23
The death toll from wildfires on Maui is nearing 100 as teams continue to search through the rubble caused by the country's deadliest wildfire in…
By Brianna Sacks 08/15/23
At 10:47 p.m. last Monday, a security camera at the Maui Bird Conservation Center captured a bright flash in the woods, illuminating the trees swaying…
By Brianna Sacks 08/12/23
Four days before fast-moving brush fires engulfed parts of Maui, weather forecasters warned authorities that powerful wind gusts would trigger dangerous fire conditions across much…
By Justine McDaniel and Ben Brasch 08/12/23
Plantation-era wooden buildings turned to ashes. Landmarks made from coral, lava rock and concrete hollowed out by flames. A once-quaint historic street blackened and wrecked.
By Scott Dance 08/12/23
As scientists weigh the influence climate change may have had in fueling Hawaii’s wildfires, there isn’t one standout factor they point to. Rising temperatures likely…
By Joanna Slater 08/12/23
In the dark, cold water off Lahaina on Tuesday night, Annelise Cochran clutched one of her neighbors for warmth, both women shivering and struggling to…
By Reis Thebault 08/12/23
The boats kept coming. One by one, cruisers and catamarans eased toward the beach in Kahana, a small and tightknit neighborhood just north of Maui’s…
08/12/23
When Hawaii officials released a report last year ranking the natural disasters most likely to threaten state residents, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic hazards featured prominently.…
08/12/23
The death toll in the Maui wildfires rose Friday to 67, as some residents were allowed to return to West Maui after the disaster. But…
By Kate Selig 08/11/23
In the wake of the devastating Hawaii wildfires, experts fear a broader environmental catastrophe is only just starting to unfold.
By Dino Grandoni 08/11/23
The wildfires raging on Maui came to the doorstep of an endangered bird center, with staff rushing to extinguish flames before they crept to aviaries…
By Mary McNamara 08/11/23
Will the devastating fires on Maui serve as a wake-up call for Americans and our foot-dragging political leaders about the climate emergency?
By Anita Chabria 08/11/23
She’s the chair of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and she was evacuated from a mountain enclave during the recent blazes — waking up at…
By Amy Mckeever and Catherine Toth Fox 08/11/23
Lāhainā has always been a survivor. The coastal town in West Maui has endured and evolved, from serving as the former capital of the Hawaiian…
By Kelsey Ables, Victoria Bisset and Others 08/11/23
Hawaii residents continued to try to find missing loved ones Friday after wildfires ripped through Maui, killing at least 67 people, with the search for…
By Eric Roston 08/11/23
At least 55 people are dead and hundreds of homes incinerated after tail winds from a hurricane stoked wildfires on Maui. Much of Lahaina, once…
By Phoebe Liu 08/11/23
Bezos, Oprah Winfrey, Jimmy Buffett and Nvidia cofounder Jensen Huang are among the billionaires with land or homes on Hawaii’s second-largest island. As Maui residents…
By Sakshi Venkatraman and Kimmy Yam 08/10/23
A historic seaside town that once was the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii has been largely reduced to ash as wildfires continued to rip…
08/10/23
What was expected to be a weather system passing well south of Hawaii abruptly and shockingly ended up whipping Maui wildfires that would burn down…
By Hadriana Lowenkron and Justin Sink 08/10/23
President Joe Biden said he was rushing federal support to Hawaii after deadly wildfires tore through the island of Maui, vowing to quickly help people…
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters 08/10/23
The deadliest and most destructive U.S. wildfires of 2023 thus far swept through Hawai‘i on Tuesday night and Wednesday, Aug. 8-9. At least 36 deaths…
08/04/23 ...Republican assault on climate progress
By Lisa Friedman 08/04/23
During a summer of scorching heat that has broken records and forced Americans to confront the reality of climate change, conservatives are laying the groundwork for future Republican administration that would dismantle efforts to slow…
08/07/23
The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has…
By Philip Bump 08/07/23
It largely doesn’t matter what Mike Pence’s plans for the presidency are, given that his odds of being elected to that position next year are…
By Ari Natter 08/05/23
Record-setting wildfires and deadly heat waves across the globe are providing the most tangible evidence of climate change yet. In fact, 2023 is likely to…
By Amna Nawaz and Saher Khan 08/04/23
The 2024 Republican presidential campaign season is in full swing and candidates are stumping on a host of key issues. But one topic that’s missing…
By Ariel Wittenberg 08/04/23
Water breaks will no longer be guaranteed for construction workers in Austin and Dallas when a new state law that prevents municipalities from regulating everything…
By Domenico Montanaro 08/03/23
It's hot. And some apparently don't mind it that way. The latest heat wave is fueled by human-caused climate change from burning fossil fuels, but…
By Kristoffer Tigue 08/01/23
Far-right conservative groups are promoting a sprawling “battle plan” to obstruct and undo the federal government’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis, with hopes of…
By Ella Nilsen 07/30/23
Deadly heatwaves are baking the US. Scientists just reported that July will be the hottest month on record. And now, after years of skepticism and…
By Maggie Astor and Lisa Friedman 07/23/23
As wildfires in Canada have sent masses of smoke over the United States this week, engulfing much of the Northeast in a yellow haze of…
By Prem Thakker 07/19/23
Wednesday marks the twentieth day in a row that Phoenix eclipses 110 degrees Fahrenheit—and the next seven days are projected to maintain the record-breaking horror.…
By Prem Thakker 07/13/23
Millions of Americans have been enveloped in throat-scratching smog, have lost their homes and livelihoods in catastrophic floods, and have been facing extreme heat bubbles…
By Joel Stronberg 05/24/23
Today’s culture wars seem to spare nothing and no one. So, it is hardly shocking that some red state legislatures and blue city councils have…
By Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman 04/20/23
If a Republican enters the Oval Office in 2025, whether it’s Donald J. Trump or someone else, there is a good chance that president will…
By Matthew Daly 03/31/23
House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change. The…
06/19/23 ...insurers abandoning homeowners as climate-driven extreme weather accelerates
Image By CCR + AI By Thomas Frank 03/23/23
The president of one of the world’s largest insurance brokers warned Wednesday that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets. Aon PLC President Eric Andersen…
By Bob Carlson 06/29/23
A long-neglected factor to consider when choosing a residence is becoming more and more important to those who relocate in retirement. Because many people don’t…
By Maxine Joselow 06/27/23
Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! ICYMI, The Washington Post is dropping its paywall through Thursday. You can read as many free articles…
By Joel Makower 06/19/23
Last week, my wife and I were notified that Kemper, with which we’ve had a homeowner’s insurance policy for well over a decade, will soon…
By John Woolfolk 06/19/23
Californians are finding it harder and more expensive to insure their homes in the wake of devastating wildfires across the state in recent years. Premiums…
By Rich Jones 06/15/23
Florida homeowners have fewer options for property insurance. Just two weeks into hurricane season, The Farmers Group and AIG say they’re scaling back policy coverage.…
By Sam Dean 06/15/23
When State Farm announced in May that the company would stop writing new homeowners insurance policies in California, it issued a two-paragraph statement by way…
06/12/23
Strong headwinds brought on by the economic environment, catastrophic weather events and the impacts of inflation continue to impact the entire insurance industry. As a…
By Keely McCormick and Stassy Olmos 06/08/23
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will consider approving a double-digit rate increase for Citizens Property Insurance on Thursday afternoon. It would be the second…
By Forrest Saunders 06/08/23
Florida insurance regulators Thursday afternoon considered a rate hike for homeowners using the state-backed insurer of last resort. Citizens Property Insurance was asking for a…
By Nicolás Rivero 06/07/23
Anyone in Florida who has opened a home insurance bill in the last few years knows premiums have been skyrocketing. New estimates from a data…
By Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn 06/02/23
Insurance companies, tired of losing money, are raising rates, restricting coverage or pulling out of some areas altogether — making it more expensive for people…
By Eliyahu Kamisher, Max Reyes and Biz Carson 06/02/23
Californians looking to buy a house face some of the country’s most expensive real estate prices and wildfires that threaten scores of housing tracts. Now…
05/24/23
Climate Central examined historical trends in fire weather—a combination of low humidity, high heat, and strong winds—across the U.S. This analysis uses data from 476…
By Rebecca Hersher 05/23/23
Climate-driven floods, hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves cause billions of dollars of damage every year in the United States. Federal scientists hope that better access…
By Benjamin Keys 05/07/23
If you don’t think you’ve been affected by global warming, take a closer look at your last homeowners’ insurance bill: The average cost of coverage…
By Noelle Phillips 04/06/23
Colorado wildfires are making it harder for homeowners and businesses to buy property insurance, and now the General Assembly is poised to create a public…
By Chris Schafer 04/03/23
The home market has gone through significant changes since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More flexibility due to the rise in work-from-home jobs, coupled…
By Jon Campisi 03/22/23
Climate change has hit states’ workers compensation systems, as more severe weather patterns, wildfires and other incidents have resulted in lost worker hours and had…
By Lidia Dinkova 03/08/23
Florida commercial property owners that have been dealing with escalating insurance costs for years are in for more bad news. This year, insurance rates in…
By Avery Ellfeldt 12/23/22
More residents of the western United States are finding it difficult to secure affordable homeowners insurance — a growing problem made worse by climate-juiced wildfires.…
By Renee Cho 11/03/22
The impacts of climate change are all around us: sea level rise, severe heat waves, drought, extreme rainfall, more powerful storms. These impacts are making…
06/07/23 ...wildfire smoke traveling thousands of miles from home
By Shannon Osaka, Michael E. Miller and Beatriz Ríos 06/10/23
When the sky over New York City turned a thick, silty orange on Wednesday, 8 million residents woke up in a new era. Until this week, the East Coast had remained cocooned, thousands of miles…
By Cailley LaPara 08/24/23
Smoke from Canadian wildfires that blanketed US cities this spring and summer were linked to spikes in emergency department visits for asthma in New York…
By Annabelle Timsit and Ian Livingston 07/17/23
Canada deployed its military to help overwhelmed local authorities and emergency workers fight intensifying wildfires, which have burned nearly 25 million acres in the country…
By Gabe Hauari 07/17/23
Poor air quality has returned in large portions of the country and is expected to linger through the early portion of the week, according to…
By Christine Hauser and Claire Moses 07/17/23
Smoke from wildfires in Western Canada drifted across the Midwest and the Northeast of the United States on Monday, blotting out blue sky and sun…
By Neel Dhanesha 07/17/23
Canadian wildfire smoke is returning to the United States this week, triggering air quality alerts around the country. But when I open up my weather…
By Maryclaire Dale 07/17/23
Pennsylvania authorities drew on 100 people, drones and cadaver dogs Monday in their search for two missing children whose family’s car was swept away in…
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Others 07/07/23
Masks made a comeback in Wisconsin this week. As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the state, health officials urged people to wear face coverings –…
By Madison Dong and others 07/05/23
Smoke and haze lingers over sections of North America, as polluted air continues to spread from hundreds of wildfires burning throughout Canada. This is the…
By Christopher Maag and Derrick Bryson Taylor 06/30/23
Air quality remained poor in the Northeast on Friday, but conditions were improving across much of the Midwest as rain and winds from the west…
By Brendan O'Brien 06/29/23
Murky, dull skies loomed over tens of millions of Americans on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires drifted across the Midwest and East, causing…
By Ian Livingston and others 06/29/23
The direct flow of this round of smoke from Canadian wildfires has largely been cut off as of Thursday evening, though experts warn that this…
By Rebecca Falconer and Andrew Freedman 06/29/23
Heat warnings and watches are in effect for over 100 million people as a record-breaking heat wave sweeping the southern U.S. continues to expand. Meanwhile,…
By Anushka Patil and Julie Bosman 06/28/23
Thick smoke from the seemingly endless Canadian wildfires has again blanketed large swaths of the United States, prompting warnings for residents to stay indoors with…
By Andrew Freedman 06/28/23
First, the record Canadian wildfire season exposed residents of the biggest cities in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic to hazardous air quality. Now low-level smoke is…
By Nicholas Spangler 06/27/23
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday warned that smoke rolling down from Canadian wildfires could bring unhealthy air conditions to much of the state by Thursday,…
By Julie Bosman 06/27/23
Chicago and much of the Upper Midwest were blanketed with a smoky haze from Canadian wildfires on Tuesday, leaving many residents of the nation’s third-largest…
By Paul Bogard 06/20/23
The first day in early June when my 5-year-old and I camped in Minnesota’s lake country was the usual heaven — perfect calm for canoeing,…
By Justine McDaniel 06/11/23
As climate change dropped its calling card on the East Coast last week in the form of thick, dangerous smoke, millions of Americans and Canadians…
By Rebecca Burns 06/09/23
Climate change is intensifying toxic wildfires, but Big Oil has pushed to exempt the resulting pollution from federal air quality standards.
By Angely Mercado 06/09/23
Over 400 wildfires are raging across Canada this week and firefighting teams have been overwhelmed by the flames. Canadian officials have asked for foreign support,…
By Ari Natter 06/09/23
Progressive lawmakers and activists are again imploring President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, citing the thick blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires now…
By Chris D'Angelo and Igor Bobic 06/08/23
On Wednesday, as much of the northeastern U.S. was blanketed for a second day by thick, highly hazardous smoke from wildfires raging in Canada, HuffPost…
By Somini Sengupta 06/08/23
New York City used to have deadly smog. Pittsburgh had bad air. Also Los Angeles. It got a lot better. Until it didn’t. Wildfire smoke…
By Claire Parker, Christian Shepherd and Gabriela Martinez 06/08/23
Unusually smoggy skies have upended life for millions of Americans this week as smoke from wildfires in Canada wafts over a large swath of the…
By Ivan Pereira, Teddy Grant and Emily Shapiro 06/08/23
Hazy and dangerous fumes from ongoing wildfires in Canada have engulfed the skies over much of the Northeast, prompting serious air quality alerts in at…
By Bill McKibben 06/08/23
I’m sitting on a rocking chair just outside the White House fence on Thursday afternoon, and I can more or less make out the seat…
By Samantha Cole 06/08/23
Like many of my fellow East Coasters, I watched the light inside my apartment darken and turn orange around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, and pulled…
By Paul Krugman 06/08/23
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang — that is, a sudden, universal catastrophe — but with a series of smaller,…
By Benji Jones 06/08/23
East Coasters finally understand what it’s like to live in California. Earlier this week, a giant cloud of wildfire smoke from Canada wafted into New…
By Amudalat Ajasa 06/07/23
Dark plumes of smoke from wildfires in Quebec have reached the East Coast and the District, affecting a vast area from Wisconsin to West Virginia.…
By Andrew Jeong, Victoria Bisset and Others 06/07/23
Smoke and haze from the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests probably will continue to blanket buildings and residents in the Northeast, the Ohio Valley and the…
By Katherine J. Wu 06/07/23
Late last night, New Yorkers were served a public-health recommendation with a huge helping of déjà vu: “If you are an older adult or have…
By Claire Moses 06/07/23
As smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts over large parts of the United States, the best thing to do to prevent breathing in pollutants on…
By David Wallace-Wells 06/07/23
My father, who died of lung cancer, used to say that as soon as people inhaled their first cigarette, they immediately knew, if they weren’t…
By Carolyn Kormann 06/07/23
hen the smoke comes, you notice it in your body before you see it in the air. On Monday evening, I went for a run…
05/26/23 ...Supreme Court abandons wetlands
By Andy McGlashen 05/26/23
The majority of the nation’s wetlands where many birds raise their young, congregate in winter, and rest during migration—and which filter out pollutants and buffer communities from flooding and storm surges—lost legal protections on Thursday…
05/25/23
Petitioners Michael and Chantell Sackett purchased property near Priest Lake, Idaho, and began backfilling the lot with dirt to prepare for building a home. The Environmental Protection Agency informed the Sacketts that their property contained…
By Emma Ricketts 05/26/23
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect wetlands applied only to those that are indistinguishable from, and have…
By Timothy Puko and Robert Barnes 05/25/23
The decision could affect tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, including in the Everglades and the Mississippi River basin. Bogs. Marshes. Swamps. Fens. All…
By Nina Totenberg 05/25/23
The U.S. Supreme Court placed new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clean Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho…
By Lawrence Hurley 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday significantly weakened a landmark water pollution law by ruling that an Idaho couple's property does not include wetlands subject to…
By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, with a 5-4 majority…
By Adam Liptak 05/25/23
The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to police millions of acres of wetlands, delivering another setback to the agency’s ability…
By Ian Millhiser 05/25/23
The Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision on Thursday which places a drastic new limit on the Clean Water Act, the 1972 law that…
05/25/23 ...El Nino is back! what does that mean for weather and economics
By Justin S. Mankin and Christopher W. Callahan 05/25/23
During the El Niño of 1983, Californians counted their blessings. The warm Pacific waters sloshing eastward certainly brought heavy spring rains and record snow. But the state largely escaped the flood risks being frantically managed…
By Isabelle Gerretsen 05/25/23
Over the coming months, a vast body of warm water will slosh slowly across the tropical Pacific Ocean in the direction of South America. As…
By Scott Dance 05/24/23
Under normal circumstances, a quiet Atlantic hurricane season would be a safe bet this year: The global climate pattern known as El Niño is fast…
By Alix Martichoux 05/21/23
National forecasters recently upped the chances that a “potentially significant” El Niño will form soon. Also scheduled to start soon, on June 1, is hurricane…
By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira 05/19/23
This year is going to be pretty unforgettable, and not in a good way. Climate scientists have predicted the arrival of El Niño, a climate…
By Bill Chappell 05/03/23
As hot as the Earth's weather has been in recent years, it's about to get hotter: El Niño is on the way, with warmer sea…
05/23/23 ...the Colorado River and who gets it’s dwindling water
By Anumita Kaur 05/23/23
After nearly a year of negotiations, three states agreed to conserve an unprecedented amount of their water supply to protect the drought-stricken Colorado River. The deal, shared by state and federal officials on Monday, marks…
By Alejandro De La Garza 05/24/23
t one of Los Angeles’s main water treatment plants a few miles north of the Port of Los Angeles, a small-scale facility is demonstrating what…
By Joshua Partlow 05/17/23
After nearly a year wrestling over the fate of their water supply, California, Arizona and Nevada — the three key states in the Colorado River’s…
By Stephanie Mencimer 05/05/23
“The whole connection between water and climate change, and conventional energy development and climate change, is not front and center” in Utah, says Brad Udall,…
By Ernest Luning and Luige Del Puerto 04/13/23
A leading Colorado water attorney says draft guidelines released this week by the Biden administrati ........
By Luke Runyon KUNC 04/13/23
Cuts to water use along the Colorado River could be spread evenly across some Southwestern states or follow the more than century-old priority system that…
By Elizabeth Ireland 04/12/23
Southern California and the state as a whole could see dramatic reductions in allocations of Colorado River water under proposals released Tuesday by the federal…
By Sarah Pilla 04/12/23
A century ago last November, seven states, including California, got together and signed the Colorado River Compact. The document divided the river’s water and provided…
By Ella Nilsen 04/11/23
The Biden administration on Tuesday released a highly anticipated analysis of the Colorado River crisis that paints a dire picture of what that river system’s…
By Ken Ritter and Suman Naishadham 04/11/23
The Biden administration has evaluated how seven Western states that are reliant on the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River could dramatically cut their…
By Janet Wilson 04/11/23
The U.S. Department of Interior announced Tuesday that it could ― and possibly would ― impose cuts to Colorado River deliveries starting next year if…
04/11/23
Southern California and the state as a whole could see dramatic reductions in allocations of Colorado River water under proposals released Tuesday by the federal…
By Colton Lochhead 04/11/23
The federal government laid out a pair of options Tuesday to drastically cut water use along the Colorado River and keep Lake Mead and Lake…
By Michael Elizabeth Sakas 04/11/23
The Biden administration announced an emergency plan to save lakes Mead and Powell from drying. It gives Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland authority to cut…
By Hayley Smith and Ian James 02/23/23
It’s a crisis nearly 100 years in the making: Seven states — all reliant on a single mighty river as a vital source of water…
By Ian James 02/02/23
After a key deadline passed this week without an agreement on how to address the Colorado River’s crisis, California is now sharply at odds with…
By Ian James 01/27/23
Just north of the California-Mexico border, the All-American Canal cuts across 80 miles of barren, dune-swept desert. Up to 200 feet wide and 20 feet…
By Christopher Flavelle 01/27/23
The seven states that rely on the river for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts. It appears the Biden administration will…
By Ian James 01/26/23
Muddy water whizzed past as John Weisheit steered a motorboat upstream in the Colorado River. He revved the engine as the boat sped around a…
By Ian James and Molly Hennessy-Fiske 01/26/23
The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky…
By Whitney Clark 01/18/23
Farming thousands of acres of alfalfa, Bermuda grass, and more, isn’t just a job for Jace Miller: it’s in his blood. “My great-great-grandfather came and…
By Joshua Partlow 12/17/22
Those responsible for divvying up the Colorado River's dwindling supply are warning that unprecedented shortages could be coming to farms and cities in the West....
By Erin Patrick O'Connor 05/14/22
It is a powerhouse: a 1,450-mile waterway that stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez, serving 40 million people in seven U.S.…
05/18/23 …HEAT and all its ramifications
By Akshat Rathi and Oscar Boyd 05/18/23
On this week’s Zero, Akshat Rathi talks to Eleni Myrivili, global chief heat officer for UN Habitat, about how cities can better cope with heat waves. By 2050, almost 70% of the world’s population will…
By Joshua Partlow 07/13/23
Landscaper Eduardo Rios can feel those moments when the familiar in Phoenix morphs into the treacherous, as the skin under his straw hat starts peeling…
By Scott Dance 07/06/23
A remarkable spate of historic heat is hitting the planet, raising alarm over looming extreme weather dangers — and an increasing likelihood that this year…
By Rebecca Hersher 07/05/23
It is very hot in a lot of places right now. It's over 100 degrees in cities across China. Millions of people in North Africa…
By Rebecca Falconer and Andrew Freedman 06/29/23
Heat warnings and watches are in effect for over 100 million people as a record-breaking heat wave sweeping the southern U.S. continues to expand. Meanwhile,…
By Kate Selig 06/29/23
Extreme heat kills more people than nearly every other weather event combined. But does the government respond to these potentially lethal events as they do…
By Dana Nuccitelli 06/28/23
Like Baby Bear’s porridge to Goldilocks, for thousands of years, the climate over much of the planet was neither too hot nor too cold but…
06/28/23
A pilot program in Phoenix, Arizona aims to cool the city by making the ground less hot.
By Rachel Ramirez 06/27/23
A brutal heat wave is expanding across Texas and the South this week, impacting millions of Americans with triple-digit temperatures and extreme humidity that is…
By Judson Jones 06/27/23
The South is in the middle of a wave of record heat expected to continue through the July 4 holiday. A stubborn heat dome of…
By Roberto Villalpando 06/27/23
As the Earth rotates, eddies of dense air circulate in the upper atmosphere. Some turn clockwise and force air downward, producing areas with higher air…
By Erin Douglas 06/27/23
Hotter days and nights. More record highs. Climate change has shifted the entire range of Texas heat upwards.
By Maryn McKenna and Matt Simon 06/27/23
Consider this nightmare scenario. For four days now, temperatures have soared past 110 degrees. Those able to stay home are cranking their air-conditioning while officials…
By Kyra Buckley 06/26/23
Persistent triple digit temperatures pushed electricity demand in Texas above 80,100 megawatts around 4:30 p.m. Monday – close to the all-time record demand and the…
By James Osborne 06/26/23
The Department of Energy warned Monday that two thirds of the country, including all of the Western United States, is at risk of losing power…
By Kyra Buckley 06/20/23
The Texas grid operator asked residents to voluntarily curb electricity use from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday as temperatures hovered near 100 degrees across…
By Elena Shao and Raymond Zhong 06/13/23
Temperatures around the world this month have been at their highest levels in decades for this time of year.
By Alex Fitzpatrick and Tory Lysik 06/08/23
Summers have gotten hotter in many cities across the U.S. over the past five decades, per a new analysis by climate research group Climate Central.
By Andrew Freedman 05/19/23
The climate outlook for June through August shows a broad swath of the Lower 48 states and Alaska are likely to see a hotter than…
By Andrea Thompson 05/12/23
It may still be spring, but baking summer heat is about to hit the famously comfortable Pacific Northwest and western Canada. Starting this weekend, the…
By Zeke Hausfather 04/28/23
Exceptionally warm conditions are being driven by the end of a persistent triple-dip La Niña and a rapid transition into warmer El Niño conditions. Taking…
By Ian Livingston 03/07/23
Temperatures soared to record levels in Greenland early this week, up to 50 degrees above normal in some places. Researchers say this early warm spell…
By Harry Stevens 02/16/23
The scientific paper published in the June 2021 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change was alarming. Between 1991 and 2018, the peer-reviewed study reported,…
By Chris Mooney 01/18/23
New research in the northern part of Greenland finds temperatures are already 2.7 degrees warmer than they were in the 20th century.
01/12/23
2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks…
By Katherine J. Wu 12/19/22
My first winter in Boston, the last patches of snow on my street didn’t melt until late June. It was 2015, the year the city…
By Tiffany Means 12/15/22
The occurrence of record-cold weather can seem puzzling during an era of global warming. After all, given that the world is getting warmer, how can…
By Alissa J. Rubin, Ben Hubbard, Josh Holder et al. 11/18/22
On a treeless street under a blazing sun, Abbas Abdul Karim, a welder with 25 years experience, labors over a metal bench. Everyone who lives…
10/10/22
Climate change is already having severe impacts across our planet, bringing new and previously unimaginable challenges to the people least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.…
By Nina Lakhani 10/08/22
Extreme heat contributed to as many as 450 Deaths in Phoenix.....
By Raymond Zhong 10/05/22
Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to…
By Matthew Bloch, Lazaro Gamio and Others 09/23/22
Dangerous levels of heat are forecast in the South, West and Midwest on Monday, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
By Jason Samenow 09/13/22
It was the summer that wouldn’t quit. From early June to straight past Labor Day, waves upon waves of heat scorched and baked the country,…
By Jaewon Kang and Others 09/11/22
High temperatures in the Western U.S. are hitting the produce industry, damaging crops, shrinking shipments and leaving fewer leafy greens and fruits on supermarket shelves.…
By Hannah Fry and Others 09/09/22
As much of the West continued to swelter in a record-breaking heat wave, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at…
By Liza Gross 09/09/22
As the American West grapples with another dangerous heat wave in the midst of a megadrought, official advisories rightly focus on short-term measures to keep…
Image By CCR + AI By David Wallace-Wells 05/17/23
In Western Canada, fire season comes early by American standards — beginning, usually, right around now. In Alberta, by today’s date, only about 1,000 acres have burned in recent years. This season so far, the…
By Somini Sengupta 06/08/23
New York City used to have deadly smog. Pittsburgh had bad air. Also Los Angeles. It got a lot better. Until it didn’t. Wildfire smoke has reversed the gains this country made in cleaning up…
By Charles o' Stanier and Others 09/01/23
Canada’s seemingly endless wildfires in 2023 introduced millions of people across North America to the health hazards of wildfire smoke. While Western states have contended…
By Claire Rush 06/19/23
A jury verdict that found an Oregon power company liable for devastating wildfires — and potentially billions of dollars in damages — is highlighting the…
By Kim Harris 06/15/23
Human-caused climate change could be playing a significant role in fueling the surge of devastating wildfires in California, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist and…
By Hayley Smith 06/14/23
Although California may be enjoying a lull in this year’s wildfire season — courtesy of a wet winter and a cool spring — scientists say…
By Brian Banks 06/07/23
Right now, eastern North America sits under a blanket of choking smoke and an eerie orange haze more appropriate to the surface of Mars than…
By Annie MCDonough 06/07/23
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and a team of top city officials urged New Yorkers to limit outdoor activity whenever possible Wednesday as an…
By Anne C. Mulkern 05/31/23
A new analysis finds that dry air and record-breaking temperatures linked to climate change have led to more frequent severe fires in California
05/24/23
Climate change is worsening wildfires across the United States and putting more people at risk. Warming from heat-trapping pollution is affecting weather conditions in ways…
By Wyatt Myskow 05/16/23
The climate-warming emissions from the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers are behind more than one third of the wildfires that have…
05/16/23
The communities, cultures, and ecosystems of the western United States and southwestern Canada evolved alongside wildfire for thousands of years. Over the last several decades,…
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes 12/09/22
In September of 2020, the smoke from major wildfires in California made the skies so dark that the state’s solar power production was reduced by…
By Kristoffer Tigue 10/18/22
Scientists are once again sounding the alarm over the intensifying wildfires plaguing the American West. In a series of new peer-reviewed studies, researchers warned that…
By Bob Berwyn 09/26/22
When Stephanie Kampf visited one of her wildfire test plots near Colorado’s Joe Wright Reservoir in June of 2021, the charred remains of what had…
09/13/22
Climate change is increasing the size, frequency, and intensity of wildfires as well as the length of the fire season. All fire needs to burn…
By Nouran Salahieh 09/12/22
An outburst of wildfires that broke out over the past week amid triple-digital temperatures across the West has forced thousands of evacuations and choked the…
By Nadja Popovich and Others 09/09/22
Across the Western United States, wildfires are growing larger and more severe as global warming intensifies. At the same time, new data shows, more Americans…
By Mandy Feder- Sawyer and Others 09/02/22
A wind-whipped fire that erupted near a defunct lumber mill in Northern California on Friday and became a fast-moving inferno has destroyed at least 50…
By Diana Kruzman 08/24/22
On July 29, 2021, Li Boyd woke up to the smell of smoke. It was her birthday — she was turning 38 — and she…
By Winston Choi-Schagrin and Others 08/01/22
In just one weekend, the McKinney Fire, fueled by strong winds and high temperatures, burned more than 55,000 acres in Northern California, becoming the state’s…
By Jamie Hailstone 07/13/22
It is a sad truth that many parts of the world - including various parts of the United States - are now facing an increased…
By Emily E. Schlickman and Others 07/13/22
Wildfires are getting larger, more frequent and more severe in many areas. Although efforts are underway to create fire-adapted communities, it’s important to realize that…
By Alex Wigglesworth and Diana Marcum 07/09/22
The first that Michael Gilbert, a 67-year-old rock climber and bellman, heard of the fire in Yosemite National Park was from a mother and daughter…
By Gabrielle Canon 07/07/22
Fire activity is expected to increase in several US states over the coming months, according to a newly released outlook from the National Interagency Fire…
By Jacob Feuerstein and Joshua Partlow 07/06/22
An unusual spate of lightning has ignited more than 50 new wildfires in Alaska, worsening air quality, spurring communities to prepare to evacuate and exacerbating…
06/24/22
The monsoon has delivered much-needed moisture to the parched region and relief from scorching temperatures. Forecasters say Arizona has a good chance of getting above-average…
By Marisa Iati 06/23/22
In the latest example of the expanding reach of wildfires, a trio of blazes in Arizona has gutted several buildings at a national observatory, forced…
By Matthew Bloch, Bea Malsky and Others 06/22/22
The map includes active and recent fires reported by the Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services Group. The locations of the fires on the map are…
By Ashley Wu and Matthew Cullen 06/20/22
The American West is burning more quickly than it has in a decade. New Mexico has been fighting its two biggest wildfires on record for…
By Neelam Bohra 06/19/22
The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 18,000 acres, twisting among Indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might…
By Tony Briscoe 06/17/22
In an analysis published this week in the annual Air Quality Life Index, researchers found that wildfire smoke probably offset decades of state and federal…
By Christine Chung 06/13/22
A fast-moving wildfire in California’s Angeles National Forest has grown to nearly 1,000 acres in a little more than a day, prompting road closures and…
By Elizabeth Wolfe & Others 06/13/22
The Pipeline Fire was first reported by a fire lookout at around 10:15 a.m. Sunday and has grown to 4,500 acres, according to InciWeb, a…
By Tim Wallace and Nadja Popovich 06/01/22
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…
By Christopher Flavelle and Nadja Popovich 05/16/22
The nation’s wildfire risk is widespread, severe and accelerating quickly, according to new data that, for the first time, calculates the risk facing every property…
By John Muyskens, Andrew Ba Tran, Naema Ahmed and Anna Phillips 05/16/22
When a wildfire tore through drought-stricken towns near Boulder, Colo., late last year, it reminded Americans that fire risk is changing. It didn’t matter that…
03/20/23 ...the newly released IPCC Report
Image By CCR + AI 03/24/23
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published the synthesis report of its sixth assessment report (AR6). This forms the final part of the sixth assessment cycle, which kicked off in 2015. The…
By Kristoffer Tigue 03/28/23
References to fossil fuels and meat consumption were removed from the report summary, while language bolstering controversial carbon removal technologies were added.
03/27/23
Re “Pushing up climate goals here would be daunting: Mass. efforts have targeted 2050, but UN report may mean it’s not soon enough” (Page A1,…
By Kate Aronoff 03/24/23
The release of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week has provoked a new round of discussion about how best…
By Brad Plumer 03/21/23
Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade, and nations will need to make an immediate and drastic…
By Somini Sengupta 03/20/23
“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all (very high confidence).” This is the most striking…
By Fiona Harvey 03/20/23
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that…
By Frank Jotzo and Mark Howden 03/20/23
The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely,…
By Robert Lempert and Elisabeth Gilmore 03/20/23
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will…
By Sarah Kaplan 03/20/23
The world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years, pushing the planet past the point of catastrophic warming —…
03/19/23
“Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Global greenhouse…
By Christa Avampato 03/06/23
Over the weekend, I read a disturbing article that quoted a potential presidential candidate who wrote, “We will keep fighting until we put a stop…
04/15/22
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the third and final part of its sixth assessment report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate…
04/04/22
The IPCC has released a new climate report, building on the findings of a previous report released in February. But what exactly is the IPCC?…
01/18/23 ...replacing gas stoves with electric
By Jonathan Lambert 01/18/23
The United States’ never-ending culture wars have moved to the kitchen, as Republicans turn up the heat on nascent efforts to shift Americans away from gas stoves...
By Dharna Noor 01/19/23
A common household appliance has sparked the nation’s latest culture war. Gas stoves were deemed dangerous in a slew of recent studies, fueling chatter about…
By Emily Atkin 01/19/23
In last week’s HEATED chat, paid subscribers and I were discussing (what else?) gas stoves, when a reader chimed in to express frustration. “I yearn…
01/19/23
Scientists have been calling attention to the health risks associated with gas stoves since the 1970s. But a new study prodded a government agency to…
By Tove Danovich 01/18/23
I had been touting the benefits of my new induction stove to all my friends since I switched from gas about a year ago. Water…
By Brian Kahn 01/15/23
Gas stoves are a hot topic. A new study linked them to one in eight childhood asthma cases, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said…
By Jacob Stern 01/14/23
Somehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a…
By Catherine Boudreau 01/14/23
Electric-induction stoves got celebrity-chef endorsements following a controversy over gas stoves. nduction stoves are popular in Europe, but unfamiliar to many Americans. "Can you toast…
By Alex Guillén and Ben Lefebvre 01/14/23
No, President Joe Biden isn’t coming for your gas stove. Republicans and conservative pundits have spent the past week nonetheless expressing alarm about the fate…
By Matthew Smith 01/14/23
The push to electrify kitchens is not new. Scientists have sounded the alarm on the dangers of gas stoves for years. In the mid-80s, the…
By Somini Sengupta 01/13/23
My grandmother in India cooked for many years with coal, then with a tank of liquid petroleum gas. As a child in California, I lived…
By John McCracken 01/12/23
Seemingly overnight, the gas stove in nearly one of three homes in the country became an appliance of controversy, bringing possible comparisons to cigarettes on…
By Paul Hope 01/12/23
Gas cooktops and ranges have had a rough couple of years. They have been the de facto choice for chefs and serious home cooks for…
By Rebecca Leber 01/11/23
When the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced in mid-December it would consider its first-ever health regulations on gas stoves, it was the start…
By Ali Francis 01/11/23
On Monday, US Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg that the federal agency would consider a nationwide ban on the installation of…
By Shannon Osaka 01/10/23
For years, scientists and health advocates have tried to bring attention to a secret source of air pollution sitting in 40 million homes around the…
By Ari Natter 01/09/23
A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.
07/05/22
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05/07/22
I made this video in partnership with Mothers Out Front about why I cook almost exclusively with induction these days - and why I won't…
By Janice O'Leary 03/19/22
At New York’s Michelin three-star Le Bernardin, that lone lobster claw sitting in a lime-green remoulade upon a sea of porcelain might seem the essence…
01/15/23 ..."atmospheric rivers" generating floods in California
By Todd C. Frankel, Timothy Bella and Others 01/15/23
Nearly 26 million people in California were covered by a flood watch Saturday, mostly between San Francisco and Los Angeles, as fresh rain and storms move through the state, bringing fresh flooding, mudslides and traffic…
By Dani Anguiano 07/03/23
There are portions of California’s Tulare Lake, with its blue water that stretches for miles and birds bobbing around the shoreline, where it can be…
03/29/23
Annual snowpack surveys on April 1 indicate how much snow-derived water will be available through the summer for households, farms, and cities across the West.
By Reis Thebault 01/21/23
So when recent rainstorms wreaked chaos across California, growers in the heart of the state’s iconic wine country did not grumble about the dangerous and…
By Dorany Pineda and Brittny Mejia 01/21/23
He pointed to a 40-foot storage container that Santa Clara River floodwaters had swept off a neighboring farm and deposited before him. Overturned tractors and…
By Dan Stillman 01/21/23
After at least nine atmospheric rivers in a little more than three weeks dumped more than 30 trillion gallons of water on California, the state’s…
By Farhad Manjoo 01/20/23
California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming…
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Hayley Smith, Susanne Rust 01/16/23
The seventh atmospheric river storm since Christmas hit California on Wednesday, and more flooding is possible as two more are forecast through the Martin Luther…
By Kim Bellware 01/16/23
The atmospheric rivers that brought pounding rains and heavy snow over parts of California this month continued to drench Southern and Central California on Monday,…
By Taryn Luna 01/15/23
Another moderate storm moved into California Sunday evening, bringing more rain to Los Angeles, the coast and inland valleys, and dropping potentially up to 2…
By Reis Thebault 01/14/23
Relentless wind and rain has killed people sleeping in homes and in tents. It has taken the lives of those sheltering indoors and those working…
By Grace Toohey 01/13/23
David Higares was on his fourth day without power in his Morada home in San Joaquin County when he woke up to indoor temperatures barely…
By Christopher Flavelle 01/12/23
As California battles a third week of lashing rain and snow that have flooded communities, broken levees and toppled power lines, the state is facing…
By Amanda Holpuch 01/11/23
When the rain is relentless and the wind is ferocious, there are plenty of imperiled things for Californians to worry about. The state’s iconic redwood…
By Hayley Smith 01/11/23
A toddler crushed by falling trees. A 5-year-old swept away by floodwaters before his mother’s eyes and still missing. Three bodies recovered from inside or…
By Lauren Sommer 01/11/23
Despite several weeks of torrential rain and flooding, California is still facing a severe multi-year drought. That has many people thinking about how to better…
By Amir AghaKouchak 01/11/23
Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric…
By Luke Money and others 01/11/23
From the Pacific coast to the Central Valley, California communities battered by days of destructive flooding began repair and cleanup efforts Wednesday as the weather-weary…
By Judson Jones 01/11/23
Forecasters said the rain arriving in California on Wednesday is being caused by a “true Pineapple Express” — a specific example of a common atmospheric…
By Henry Fountain 01/11/23
The onslaught of rain in California has state officials, scientists and others wondering if it will be enough to end three years of drought that…
By Jorge Garcia 01/10/23
The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides…
By Brian K Sullivan and Mark Chediak 01/10/23
California faces more drenching rain as a historic drought has given way to flooding that’s killed at least 17 people, closed highways and sent residents…
By Matthew Cappucci and others 01/10/23
Heavy rain continued to drench California on Tuesday as an ongoing parade of storms left much of the state in disarray, with power outages, collapsed…
01/09/23
U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California after a week of storms killed at least 12 people in the past 10 days…
By Hayley Smith, Louis Sahagún, Jessica Garrison 01/05/23
The pounding rains of New Year’s Eve had ceased, but the pastures, freeways and neighborhoods surrounding the tiny community of Wilton continued to disappear beneath…
01/10/23 ...wrapping up climate in 2022 and the news isn’t all bad
12/08/22
The average temperature of the contiguous U.S. in November 2022 was 41.0°F, which is 0.7°F below average, ranking in the middle third of the record. Generally, temperatures were above average from the Midwest to the…
03/04/23
CO2 Emissions in 2022 provides a complete picture of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2022. The report finds that global growth in emissions was not…
01/12/23
2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks…
By Nicholas Kusnetz 01/01/23
When environmentalists look back on 2022, they might remember it as the year the United States finally passed a major climate change law. Some advocates…
By Katelyn Weisbrod 12/31/22
Climate change and an environment in peril were visible in many of 2022’s defining moments: record-smashing heat waves in Europe and South Asia, droughts pushing…
By Sammy Roth 12/29/22
Another year gone by. Another 365 days of drought, fire, flood and heat. With more to come in the New Year. You’ve heard it all…
By Angely Mercado 12/29/22
Countries all over the world saw one climate disaster after another this year. There were relentless heat waves, deep freezes, and hurricanes so destructive they…
By Molly Taft 12/28/22
It’s been a hell of a year in energy. 2022 was full of historic changes—and quite a few surprises—as the world grappled with an energy…
By Leah C. Stokes 12/25/22
For almost half a century, the world has talked about quitting its addiction to fossil fuels. Yet, year after year, we remain stuck with the…
By Bill McKibben 12/20/22
he progress, or lack of it, in the climate fight is measured in an observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, the largest…
By Dan Gearino 12/08/22
You can forgive people who work on U.S. energy policy for being tired this month. They have just sprinted, and sometimes slogged, through an extraordinary…
By Yessenia Funes 12/05/22
We didn’t save the world in 2022, but there were notable wins in the climate and environmental justice space. The Frontline takes time to celebrate…
By Chris Mooney, Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens 12/01/22
It’s the world’s most important climate goal: limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). It’s the aspiration of global agreements, and to…
