Natural Disasters
Keeping you updated on the latest news about hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, and more.
We’re in an era of compound natural disasters.
Wildfire smoke can be hazardous, but there’s a lot you can do to protect yourself.
Tornado season is changing. That could have major consequences.
Climate change and the outgoing El Niño will likely ignite more weather extremes.
As disasters displace more people around the world, our connection to place becomes more tenuous.
Why we need to take seemingly small earthquakes seriously
Deadly earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, where war and economic crises already loomed. Here’s the latest news.
From Taiwan to South Korea to Silicon Valley, some of the most important nodes in the global tech economy are in disaster-prone places.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle is the state’s largest blaze on record.
Back-to-back atmospheric rivers have triggered floods, snowstorms, and power outages in the Golden State.
As tourism returns to Maui, those displaced by this year’s deadly fires face losing their homes again.
Climate change is contributing to heavier precipitation, a major factor in flooding.
This tiny Caribbean country shows why early warnings are an essential climate change adaptation.
The death toll is a tragedy decades in the making.
People might be still trapped under debris in Morocco. Here’s how they could be saved.
A massive quake near Marrakesh on Friday night has killed more than 2,100.
Can the weakened presidential candidate weather crises at home?
Several factors put Idalia on track to rival damage from previous deadly hurricanes.
After years of extreme drought, the Western US has finally caught a break. But it may be a short one.
The storm has caused significant flooding, power outages, and rock and mudslides in the Southwest, with more to potentially come.
The social ties keeping Lahaina fed in the wake of disaster.
Oceans are at record high temperatures, but El Niño is keeping a lid on tropical storms in the Atlantic.
Climate risks are becoming increasingly expensive. Not just locally, but globally.
Air conditioning, purifiers, and even box fans can help.
Canada’s smoke blanketing the US is just the latest example of intensifying wildfires.
And can the buildings be fixed?
What Turkey and Syria’s deadly earthquakes reveal about wealth.
The massive earthquakes come on top of decades of civil war in the region, which has created millions of refugees and a spiraling economic crisis.
Atmospheric rivers are dumping rain on California. That’s not a good thing.
Populations are growing in coastal cities, which are vulnerable as sea levels rise and hurricanes drive larger storm surges.
Blaming blackouts on wind and solar power totally misses the point.
Pakistan has more than 7,000 glaciers. Climate change is melting them into floodwater.
How the flooding crisis became so awful.
Some heat waves are way worse than others. We need a way to rate them.
Floods and droughts are devastating the United States.
The world wasn’t built for this heat.
The extraordinary heat wave in Europe is showing what’s possible already, and what lies ahead under climate change.
An important but overlooked piece of good news about climate change.
The history of hurricanes like Katrina and Ida says a lot about America’s future.
Hurricane Ida’s Category 4 designation is based on wind speeds and potential property damage.