Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land
JUNEAU, Alaska — Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous…
Flash flood warning issued as atmospheric river hits Southern California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on…
Atmospheric river douses Southern California, threatening LA’s burned areas
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on…
Where Americans Won’t Buy Homes Due To Climate Change or Natural Disasters
Regardless of whether they believe climate change is real, 69% of homeowners took the phenomenon into account when…
Rescuers and aid workers bring relief to hurricane-hit Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Rescuers and aid workers fanned out across Jamaica on Saturday to distribute food and…
US region suffers under crushing impact of unrelenting drought: ‘Abnormally dry’
Droughts are one of many natural disasters pointing to a larger, global climate crisis. As temperatures reach new…
Climate change fuels Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification to Category 5
The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less…
Tropical Storm Melissa nears hurricane strength, threatens Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa neared hurricane strength Saturday and was expected to rapidly intensify this…
Tropical Storm Melissa nearly stationary in the Caribbean as a major flood threat
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Melissa was nearly stationary in the central Caribbean on Friday,…
Alaska airlifts hundreds from storm-devastated coastal areas
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The house rocked as if an earthquake had struck, and suddenly it was floating.…
Tropical storm’s remnants trigger flooding and evacuations in Colorado
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The remnants of a tropical storm brought flooding across parts of the Southwest…
Flooding in central and southeast Mexico kills 22
MEXICO CITY — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Flooding caused by heavy rains in central and southeastern Mexico has…