extreme weather
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A guide to talking about climate change like a Trump official
Can't bring yourself to say "climate change"? Try "resilience" or "pre-disaster mitigation" instead.
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Six months after Maria, the hardest hit city in Puerto Rico is still being ignored
Death, disappearance, and destruction have become a part of everyday life in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
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Meteorologists have a new strategy for bringing climate change down to earth
“We meteorologists need to show people global climate change and what it means to them.”
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Crazy floods hit the Midwest when hardly anyone was looking
In northern Indiana, people kayaked across grocery store parking lots.
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Society saves $6 for every dollar spent on climate change resilience
$27 billion spent in mitigation grants over the past 23 years has yielded $158 billion in societal savings
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We just got our disaster bill and it was $306 billion
The United States was hit by 16 climate and weather events that cost more than $1 billion each.
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Get used to saying ‘bomb cyclone.’ This is our climate now.
Wild winter weather is another sign of the Anthropocene.
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Ready or not, winter ‘bomb cyclone’ heads for East Coast
The monster storm could reach as far south as Georgia and Florida.
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The U.S. should go Dutch to avoid building another Houston
Americans focus more on recovering from floods brought on by disasters like Harvey than planning for them.