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Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
Insurers are raising rates quickly, and it’s not just in California and Florida. They’re often shrinking coverage at the same time.
Climate change is contributing to larger rainfalls throughout Canada, and aging urban infrastructure is unable to keep up. Blue-green infrastructure updates can help to flood-proof cities.
For trees, growing to maturity involves much more than just reaching upward.
New techniques are helping forecasters spot potentially dangerous storms earlier than ever.
Fluctuations in the path of storms over the Australian continent can influence the conditions delivered by an El Niño or La Niña.
To understand how tornadoes behave, scientists need to be near the storm. The movies get some of it right.
Spring 2024 was menacing for large parts of the US, with a tornado nearly every day in May. Tornado outbreaks tore up communities across multiple states.
In the mountains, heavy downpours can be devastating, washing out roads and homes and triggering landslides.
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
Some parts of the Gulf experienced 18 months of rain in a single day.
Extreme downpours and droughts, both fueled by rising global temperatures, are taking a toll. Communities trying to manage the threats face three big challenges.
A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the same flash.
Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
These giant rivers in the sky are both destructive and essential for the Western U.S. water supply.
The impacts of record heat on the global water cycle were severe and wide-ranging – and the trend will continue in 2024.
An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.
Top contributors
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Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Meteorology, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Penn State
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Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, Penn State
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Professorial Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Physical Geography, James Cook University
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University
