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What to know about Hurricane Melissa

Associated Press 28 Oct 2025

As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa’s ferocity

Associated Press 27 Oct 2025
A fallen tree sits inside the park in Ho Man Tin area, as super typhoon Ragasa approaches in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and Philippines

Associated Press 24 Sep 2025
Rescuers evacuate people from a flooded hospital following landslides and flash flooding in India's northeast state of Manipur, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald Sairem)

How scientists unmask climate change’s role in extreme weather

Kristine Sabillo 1 Sep 2025

NOAA delays the cutoff of key satellite data for hurricane forecasting

Associated Press 30 Jun 2025
Residents remove debris after the passing of Hurricane Erick, near Charco Redondo, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)

Mexico assesses damage from Hurricane Erick as rising rivers leave at least 1 dead

Associated Press 23 Jun 2025
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Honduras pays the climate cost as its forests disappear and storms rise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Alfred as it nears the Australian coast, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Mar 2025
Banner image: Satellite image of Japan on Feb. 11 via Himawari Satellite, CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA.

Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of the recent bushfires in Victoria, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.

Australia reeling from floods in the north, bushfires in the south

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Faida from the Met Office.

Cyclone Elvis kills 5 in Madagascar as another storm approaches

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of St. Bernard's Church in Ireland following Storm Éowyn, by Riversting via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Explosive ‘bomb cyclone’ pummels Europe, hitting UK hardest

Kristine Sabillo 28 Jan 2025

At least 11,500 deaths linked to extreme weather in 2024

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2025
Banner image of four storms over the Western Pacific Ocean in November 2024, by NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Philippines’ ‘extraordinary’ typhoon season was climate-fueled: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of Storm Darragh from space via the Met Office.

Battering in U.K. & Ireland, deaths in Thailand & Malaysia as storms keep coming

Kristine Sabillo 9 Dec 2024

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2024

Birds caught in the eye of Hurricane Milton

Bobby Bascomb 8 Oct 2024

Hurricane Helene creates new hurdles for vulnerable species in southeastern US

Bobby Bascomb 4 Oct 2024

Study finds 2,000+ species restricted to natural disaster-prone areas

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2024

Faced with an extreme future, one Colombian island struggles to rebuild

Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos 15 Apr 2024

In Puerto Rico, a marathon effort builds to restore mangroves and dunes

Liz Yanira Del Valle Huertas 17 Mar 2022
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Gloria Dickie 23 Jan 2018

As 2017 hurricane season ends, scientists assess tropical forest harm

Claire Salisbury 11 Dec 2017

NASA and NOAA: 2016 hottest recorded year ever

John Cannon 23 Jan 2017

Invasive species worsen damage from Hawaii’s storms

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2014

Offshore wind farms could blunt hurricane damage

Loren Bell 28 Feb 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Philippines’ delegate calls out climate change deniers after Haiyan

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Delegate for the Philippines vows to stop eating at climate summit

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2013

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