The Summer That Reality Caught Up to Climate Fiction
This summer, the United States roasted like never before. People got third-degree burns from simply falling onto hot pavement in Arizona, filling up all the beds in Maricopa County’s burn…
Excessive Heat and Rainfall Combos Will Be Practically Everywhere If Emissions Keep Rising, Study Says
The climate crisis is going to expose more of the world to both hotter weather and heavy rainfall. This could create dangerous flood conditions new research has found. A study…
Hottest July on Record Kills Hundreds of Cows
Alarming heat and humidity killed hundreds of cows in Iowa last month. These losses have further decreased the size of the overall U.S. cattle herd, which has shrunk to a…
Heat Waves and Cold Snaps Linked to More Fatal Heart Attacks, Study Finds
The global rise in extreme weather is likely to bring along more fatal heart attacks, new research this week suggests. The study found that exposure to heat waves and cold…
How to watch Rocket Lab launch storm-monitoring satellites tonight
Rocket Lab ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ Launch Rocket Lab is about to conduct the first of two launches for NASA’s TROPICS mission, short for Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and…
Photos show the devastation of torrential rain and flooding on Australia’s east coast
Less than 18 months after the “Black Summer” bushfire crisis that made global headlines last southern summer, Australia’s east coast is dealing with torrential rain and flooding described as a…
Weather experts warn of imminent brutal storms, violent tornadoes in the South
Weather Twitter is abuzz with storm warnings. That’s because some of the most dangerous weather possible — severe thunderstorms and tornado outbreaks — is brewing in the South, and will…
Extreme winter freeze that hit U.S. actually used to be common
Winters are growing wimpier. In much of the U.S., winter is the fastest-warming season. Though future extreme cold snaps are inevitable — because frigid Arctic air sometimes spills down south…
Why intense winter freezes will still happen in a heating world
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. During the historic Texas cold, people froze to death. Even as the world warms,…
The U.S. is about to get a potent polar vortex blast
Welcome back, old friend. The polar vortex, composed of lofty winds that circulate atop the globe each winter, largely stayed put in the Arctic last year. But in 2021 the…