Freshwater flooding has caused over half of all direct hurricane deaths since 2013. The threat will increase as climate change makes hurricanes wetter and potentially slower-moving.

C. Mark Eakin is the former head of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a new study, he and his colleagues found that a 2014 to 2017 heat wave caused moderate ...

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And the warming climate is making it even harder. As temperatures rise, winter snowpack is shrinking – which reduces water supplies in the spring and summer. Held recalls that when he was growing up ...

Seven of the top 11 highest-volume precipitation events over the past 77 years have occurred just in the past 10 years.

Transcript: Goggy Davidowitz, a researcher at the University of Arizona, is using the sun to help prevent food waste. Many perfectly good fruits and vegetables are thrown away at ...

A Category 4 hurricane making direct landfall on New York City could cause as much as $500 billion in insured damage.

Transcript: If you use social media, you’ve likely seen heated online arguments, outrageous posts, or conflicting news about climate change. McCharen: “It’s just very preval ...

Wildfires, storms, and floods can lead to missed appointments and hospital closures – with life-and-death consequences.

In her new book, “Climate Wayfinding,” writer and climate activist Katharine Wilkinson puts the lessons learned in her real-world, pathbreaking collaborations into a book readers can use to heal ...

In an aerial view, workers move fresh sand along the main public beach during a sand replenishment project along eroding shoreline on November 21, 2024, in San Clemente, California. According to the U ...

A brutal, record-intensity heat wave that has engulfed much of India and Pakistan since March eased somewhat this week, but is poised to roar back in the coming week with inferno-like temperatures of ...