Widespread flooding like the rain in Vermont is expected to happen more often as warmer temperatures send more water into the atmosphere.
Author: Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY
Heat record after heat record will be broken in 2023. Here’s how to make sense of it all.
The dizzying headlines are unlikely to slow down over the next few weeks, or in the years to come as climate change reshapes the world’s weather.
At least 10 dead amid public gun violence in US cities over long Fourth of July weekend
Public gun violence had claimed at least 10 lives and injured dozens more people across the country over the long holiday weekend.
The oceans are unusually hot and on track to get hotter. That’s not good.
Roughly 40% of the world’s oceans are experiencing marine heat waves, the most since satellite tracking started in 1991.
Pressure on Titanic sub would have been ‘enormous’ in final moments, experts say
OceanGate’s Titan submersible would have been vulnerable to enormous pressures near the ocean floor as it dove toward the Titanic.
Patents, lawsuits, safety concerns — then tragedy. A timeline of OceanGate’s Titan sub.
Timeline: History of how OceanGate developed and promoted its Titan submersible to take tourists to the Titanic
NOAA: $2.6 billion will help communities prepare for weather disasters and climate change
More frequent and costly climate and extreme weather events have profound economic and social impacts, NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said.
Climate change warning signs started in the 1800s. Here’s what humanity knew and when.
Climate change concern has recently skyrocketed, but scientists began warning humanity in the 1800s.
New airborne radar planned to improve weather forecasts on land and sea
National Science Foundation puts forward $91.8 million to develop an advanced airborne radar system to improve weather and hurricane forecasts
There’s way more tiny life on Earth than scientists had thought, study of coral reefs finds
Nearly as many microscopic organisms may live on and within coral reefs as all the microbes previously identified around the globe, scientists say.