By Tara Lohan It’s been the wettest 12 months on record in the continental United States. Parts of the High Plains and Midwest are still reeling from deadly, destructive and expensive spring floods — some of which have lasted for three months. Mounting bills from natural disasters like these have prompted renewed calls to reform […]
Fallen trees from 2018’s Hurricane Michael are still a hazard in the Florida Panhandle, but that won’t stop the 2019 hurricane season from starting June 1. As a sign of its approach, scientists have released their first forecasts for the 2019 season, which runs from the beginning of June to Nov. 30. Their predictions do […]
A wildfire that broke out in Florida’s Panhandle Saturday that should have been easy to contain was quicker to spread and harder to fight because of debris left over from Hurricane Michael. The fire burned around 678 acres over the weekend and forced 20 homes to be evacuated in Bay County, AccuWeather reported. The fire […]
Extreme weather events impacted close to 62 million people in 2018 and displaced more than two million as of September of that year. That’s just one of the alarming findings in the UN World Meteorological Organization‘s (WMO) Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018. “The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate […]
By Jake Johnson With more than a million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico facing devastating food stamp cuts as Congress fails to provide necessary hurricane relief funding, President Donald Trump reportedly complained to Republican senators on Tuesday that the island is receiving “too much” aid — a position that was decried as both false and […]
By Ian MacDonald Like generals planning for the last war, oil company managers and government inspectors tend to believe that because they survived the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, they are ready for all contingencies. Today they are expanding drilling into deeper and deeper waters, and the Trump administration is opening more offshore areas […]
An extensive analysis of more than 2 billion U.S. Twitter posts found that people have short memories when it comes to what they consider “normal” weather, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Generally, people base their judgment of “normal” weather on what has happened in the last two […]
By Ilissa Ocko The world’s oceans are heating up. Scientists have found that 2018 was the hottest year ever recorded for our oceans, and that they are warming even faster than previously thought. When documenting global warming trends, we often focus on air temperature. But the oceans actually absorb more than 90 percent of the […]
By Shana Udvardy After a dearth of action on climate change and a record year of extreme events in 2017, the inclusion of climate change policies within the annual legislation Congress considers to outline its defense spending priorities (the National Defense Authorization Act) for fiscal year 2018 was welcome progress. House and Senate leaders pushed […]
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