Nearly two years ago, Hurricane Helene brought unprecedented destruction to western North Carolina. A new graphic novel reminds readers that a 1,000-year storm like this could happen again in our lifetimes.
The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.
Countries with strong environmental governance and trusted institutions are well-positioned to pivot away from fossil fuels, a new United Nations report finds.
The Forest Service remains stretched on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Idaho — a place with ties to key agency leaders — and is leaning on volunteer groups for help.
The judge rejected the Trump administration’s interpretation of a recent court ruling and ordered officials to release funds for a $2.8 billion federal program.
In Florida, where the state has banned adoption of local laws intended to protect outdoor workers, the lack of federal rules leaves individuals particularly vulnerable.
Spain has declared a national emergency in the Madrid region. In neighboring France, meanwhile, President Emmanuel Macron has invoked the EU's civil protection mechanism to ask for help.
Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rain, along with tree-planting projects, may be paying dividends.
Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.S.
A new climate attribution study shows that heating from greenhouse gases could drive extreme snow droughts in the western United States every third year by 2050.
