Four little discussed ways that climate change could make hurricanes even worse.
Hurricane Irma, left, and Hurricane Jose are pictured in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 7. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Reuters)With Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall...
Portugal faces dire drought, the worst in more than 20 years.
Portugal's Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the...
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma could cost US economy $290 billion, estimate says.
Combined damages from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma could cost the U.S. economy as much as $290 billion, according to a new forecast.Hurricane Harvey, which...
Violence erupts on desperate Caribbean islands: “All the food is gone.”
By AZAM AHMED and KIRK SEMPLESeptember 10, 2017MARIGOT, St. Martin — At dawn, people began to gather, quietly planning for survival after Hurricane Irma.They started with the grocery...
Irma may force Florida insurers to turn to deeper pockets.
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSHSeptember 11, 2017When the storm is over and the streets are safe again, Floridians will be checking what has become of their homes. They...
‘Nowhere else to go’: Small Texas towns decimated by hurricane struggle to rebuild amid...
By Mary Lee Grant,
ARANSAS PASS, Tex. — At a small rural hospital in this shrimping and tourist town of about 3,000, some patients visited...
Stop talking right now about the threat of climate change. It’s here; it’s happening.
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Bill McKibben
Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing – we need to rethink how we live...
Hurricane Irma linked to climate change? For some, a very 'insensitive' question.
By LISA FRIEDMANSeptember 11, 2017WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, says it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the midst...
Commentary: In TV hurricane coverage virtually no trace of the C-word.
September 11, 2017
For all of its A-plus, life-saving urgency in backing up evacuation efforts, TV news still can't bring itself to even ask the...
Hurricane Irma: ‘Everything is under water, i mean everything.’
Updated on September 10 at 10:41 p.m.
Take it from the hurricane historian: There has never been a tropical cyclone quite like Irma.
“You’ve had storms...
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