By Jesse McKinley, Dana Rubinstein and Jeffery C. Mays © The New York Times Co.
NEW YORK » The warnings and maps seemed clear.
On Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service issued a prediction that a wide swath of the Ohio Valley and the Eastern Seaboard soon woul...
By Christopher Flavelle
© The New York Times Co.
FAIR BLUFF, N.C. » It has been almost five years since Hurricane Matthew flooded the small town of Fair Bluff, on the coastal plain of North Carolina. But somehow, the damage keeps getting worse.
The storm submerged Main S...
To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground
A new study in Nature reports that oil, gas and coal production must begin falling immediately to have even a 50 percent chance of keeping global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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U.N.: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall
By Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten
The Associated Press
GENEVA » Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency ...
By Sam Metz, Janie Har and John Antczak
The Associated Press
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » Favorable weather helped firefighters trying to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching wildfire, but officials warned Wednesday that stiff winds and dry conditions mean that...
Climate bankruptcy
Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town.
Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increas...
By Sam Metz and Janie Har
The Associated Press
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildf...
By Sam Metz and Brian Melley The Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. » A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or s...
Something extraordinary happened Aug. 14 at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, 2 miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.
The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several...
Amid the haze and despair over the planet’s future, Colorado experts offer hope
By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post
The more Andrés Better studied climate change and its worsening impact on the environment, the more discouraged he became. The Colorado State University freshman abso...
Climate pledges—a step in the right direction for the private sector—too often fall short of transformative change. In his recent Drawdown Insights piece, Executive Director Jonathan Foley offers a new way forward for climate leadership, asking companies to:
1. Cut emissions towards zero, not...
Companies work to be force of nature on confronting climate change
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Stretches of Colorado rivers closed to fishing because of low water flows and warm temperatures. A decrease in the number of warmer, down-filled jackets sold because of shorter wint...
By The Associated Press
PLACERVILLE, CALIF. » A wildfire burning for a week in Northern California continued to grow out of control, one of about a dozen big blazes in the droughtstricken state that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate.
There was ze...
By Terence Chea, Ethan Swope and John Antczak The Associated Press
GRIZZLY FLATS, CALIF. »
A wildfire raged through a small Northern California forest town Tuesday, burning dozens of homes as dangerously dry and windy weather also continued to fuel other massive blazes and prompted the nation’s la...
By Jennifer O’Mahony
The Associated Press
MADRID » Spain set a new provisional heat record of 116.96 Fahrenheit on Saturday as Southern Europe sweltered under a relentless summer sun. Italy put 16 cities on red alert for health risks, and Portugal warned 75% of its region...
A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview of the decades ahead.

By Bob Berwyn
August 9, 2021
Amidst a summer of fires, floods and heat waves, scientists on Monday de...
By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow Wednesday after destroying more than 1,000 buildings, nearly half of them homes, while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward several remo...
By The Associated Press
GREENVILLE, CALIF. » California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow Wednesday after destroying more than 1,000 buildings, nearly half of them homes, while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward se...
U.N. data shows ramp up in global warming, more precise forecasts
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that th...
By Iliana Mier and Elena Becatoros
The Associated Press
ARKITSA, GREECE » Firefighters and residents battled into the night Monday for a seventh day against a massive fire on Greece’s second-largest island as the nation endured what the prime minister described as “a natural disaster of unpreceden...
