Latest Weather Stories
Florida’s aquatic animals prepare early for storms like Hurricane Idalia
Tropical Storm Hilary soaks the Southwest
The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from a historic heatwave
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Michael Childress/The Conversation
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Titanium dioxide-coated mesh can purify contaminated fog
Canadian territory capital ordered to evacuate due to approaching wildfire
Extreme heat could be a threat to contraception
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Shefali Luthra/The 19th
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The health hazards from wildfires will linger in Maui for years
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Andrew J. Whelton/The Conversation
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Combining AI and traditional methods can help us predict air quality
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Joshua S. Fu/The Conversation
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Inside Delta’s in-house meteorology wing
Hurricane-powered wildfires sweep across Maui
Up the coast from Pompeii, another city grows on top of an underground volcano
Antarctica is in the climate change crosshairs
In water-strained Utah, can golf courses justify their giant footprint?
July 2023 was likely the hottest month in 120,000 years
July’s extreme heat waves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change
This fungi-based substance might protect homes from ever-worsening wildfires
Alaska’s Shishaldin Volcano spews 5.5-mile-high ash cloud
Extreme heat warning extends to more than 100 million people in the US
Flash floods are rare, but deadly. Here’s how to be ready for them.
Dangerous inland flooding will last for days in some Northeast states
AI forecasts could help us plan for a world with more extreme weather
July 3 may have marked the hottest day ever recorded
Extreme heat to blanket Texas with ‘no end in sight’
‘Unprecedented’ ocean temperatures and extreme heat waves pop up around the globe
‘Slow water’ could transform the Southwest, one little rock wall at a time
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Erica Gies
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This very sweaty robot measures how heat affects humans
Wildfire smoke is choking the eastern United States
A spacecraft engineer’s wisdom from Mars 2020 and a disaster-stricken island
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Elio Morillo
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NOAA predicts a ‘near-normal’ Atlantic hurricane season for 2023
A scientific guide to clouds, even the ones that look like udders
1 in 5 people are likely to live in dangerously hot climates by 2100
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Kristoffer Tigue/Inside Climate News
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Extreme weather and energy insecurity can compound health risks
Guam hit by strongest ‘Super Typhoon’ in decades
This ancient farming practice could get a boost from the US farm bill
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Ashley Stimpson/Nexus Media
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El Niño is back—here’s what that means
This summer could push US energy grids to their limits
Inside the little-known group that knows where toxic clouds will blow
What California’s weird winter means for its water problems
Volcanoes can be a fiery death sentence for fish
New AI-based tsunami warning software could help save lives
California and the Midwest prep for floods with record levels of snow melt
Climate change forces cities to rethink planting trees
‘Erratic’ tornado hits Oklahoma as storms barrel east from the Great Plains
What happens when a tree dies?
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Camille Stevens-Rumann/The Conversation
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How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’
Southern Florida got 26 inches of rain in 24 hours
This phantom lake in California is back with a vengeance
Tornado outbreak killed dozens of people across the US this weekend
How science has made tornado forecasting better—but not perfect
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Chris Nowotarski/The Conversation
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Recovery begins after devastating tornadoes hit Mississippi’s Lower Delta
How a wet winter and spring could help and hurt US states
Deadly Cyclone Freddy could be the longest tropical cyclone on record
Joint Task Force Rattlesnake is rescuing snowbound Californians
A stinky, 5,000-mile-long wad of seaweed is about to gunk up Florida’s beaches
Powerful atmospheric river pummels California with even more rain and flooding
Even the cool forests of the Pacific Northwest face the danger of extreme heat
What ancient tsunamis can teach us about future disasters
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Nathaniel Scharping / Hakai Magazine
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Coast-to-coast storm causing extreme weather across the country
La Niña is exacerbating drought conditions for millions
IBM’s AI has a new job: sorting through NASA’s giant stream of Earth and weather images
What it takes to build and maintain Alaska’s icy highways
Persisting winter storm conditions bring snow, tornadoes, and thunder to Eastern US
A Cold War spy plane now tracks humanity’s greatest threat for NASA
Swiss scientists successfully used lasers to divert lightning bolts