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More than 57 million people in the American South and Southwest were under an excessive heat warning on Saturday afternoon — the most severe category for heat conditions — as temperatures across the Gulf Coast and parts of the Southwest soared to record-breaking levels and were expected to remain high through early next week. The […]
Climate change-related extreme heat events have lengthened, become more frequent, and increased in intensity over the past few decades with some of the worst conditions and impacts observed in Summer 2023. Across the globe and the country there have been rising incidents of
The hazards are many. And they seem to come in all forms. The southwestern U.S. is reeling from record rainfall and extensive flooding from a rare tropical storm. Much of the central and southern parts of the country are in the grips of yet another oppressive heat wave. Nearly two weeks after
Hundreds of participants in scouting event in South Korea’s southwest have fallen ill due to soaring temperatures. Scouts from the United States and the United Kingdom are leaving the site of an international scouting jamboree in South Korea after hundreds of participants fell ill due to extreme heat. The US scouts will move to a […]
As a heat wave scorches much of the Northern Hemisphere, large portions of the United States are experiencing record temperatures — and the growing danger and discomfort that come with them. Phoenix, one of America’s hottest cities, has never been this hot for this long. And even places not known for heat, such as Northern […]
Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor and majority Black neighborhoods, where […]
Forecasts show a weekend of wild weather ahead for much of the United States, as dangerous heat waves take hold in the West and the South, severe storms charge across the central Plains and poor air quality continues to plague states in the Midwest, the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region. In an
New data from the nonprofit First Street Foundation finds that climate change is fueling more devastating rains and flooding in parts of the country June 26, 2023 at 12:01 a.m. EDT Intensity of extreme rainfall Precipitation expected to occur once in 100 years Data not available for Alaska or Hawaii Source: First Street Foundation Intensity […]
CNN  — Many Americans have been reveling in optimism as back-to-back holidays and celebrations take place across the country. On Sunday, dads were honored for Father’s Day, and today, the focus shifts to
May 8, 2023; Washington, D.C. – On May 11, NPR’s signature documentary show Embedded will launch Buffalo Extreme, a first-person podcast following Buffalo All-Star Extreme, a Black cheer team in Buffalo, New York, in the year after a white man murdered ten Black people in a racist massacre at the Tops supermarket a few blocks […]