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

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 ...

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 ...