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A young girl is shown leaning up against a stone column spraying a stream of water.
Environment
Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
A sign the shape of a red stop sign warns of extreme heat danger at Badwater Basin with a couple taking a selfie in the distance.
Environment
The world’s getting hotter. Can naming heat waves raise awareness of the risks?
hurricane
Environment
Why hurricane forecasters can’t ‘politicize’ storm warnings even if they wanted to
Bomb cyclone
Environment
Climate change will accelerate extreme weather events in the coming years
Satellite image of the United States on January 4
Science
Weather ‘bombs’ and the link between severe winters and climate change
TV meteorologist
Environment
In hurricane-prone Miami, one meteorologist is forecasting the future
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cost of Joplin, Missouri, tornado: $3 billion
Environment
Strange weather and climate change
A passenger cools off a child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in the northern Indian city of Allahabad April 23, 2015.
Environment
Despite the extreme heat wave hitting India ‘you have to keep going’
Tornado twins
Environment
Is tornado activity being affected by climate change?
A sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific Ocean during the peak of the 2009-10 El Niño.
Environment
El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory flies above the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
Environment
How California is surviving its new water crisis
El Niño Makes Atlantic hurricanes less likely.
Environment
Welcome to the ‘Double El Niño’ — and more extreme weather
dust blizzard perspective graphic
Environment
Floods, blizzards, droughts, and dust storms: The week in perspective
Oliver's TRavels offering rain-free weddings
Business
A British travel company offers a rain-free wedding day
A helicopter rescues stranded trekkers along the Annapurna Circuit trail in Nepal on October 16, 2014.
Environment
Rescuers airlift hikers to safety after a deadly blizzard hits the Himalayas
Pot farm
Global Scan
Italy’s army enters the marijuana business
The Shipping Forecast offers listeners a chance to reconnect with Britain's maritime history
Media
How a weather broadcast came to symbolize all it means to British
Environment
ISIS is using water as a weapon in Iraq
Environment
California’s drought is big business for drillers
Environment
Don’t like the weather? Now we can change it
Environment
Don’t like the weather? Now we can change it
Environment
The Balkans’ flooding is linked to climate change. And here’s how
A cyclist wears a mask as he cycles near Buckingham Palace in London April 2, 2014. Britain's Meteorological Office forecast that London would be affected by smog this week, caused by powerful dust storms and strong winds in the Sahara.
Environment
London commuters deal with a new hardship — clouds of African dust
Environment
What’s a deep freeze for the US is just another day in northern Canada
Typhoon
Environment
Super Typhoon Haiyan can be blamed on climate change, right? Maybe not
Extreme Weather-Colorado Floods
City of Austin Appeals to Residents to Fight 5-Year Drought
Environment
Research suggests global warming related to increased violence
Environment
Three storm chasers among dead from last week’s Oklahoma tornadoes
Global Politics
In Tornado Alley, weathercasters admired for keeping communities safe
Environment
Scientists find waste heat affects climate in winter
Arts, Culture & Media
New Ken Burns documentary looks at Dust Bowl, ‘worst sustained environmental disaster’ in U.S. history
Environment
New York just one of several cities facing increased risk of coastal flooding
Global Politics
Hurricane Sandy leaves death, destruction as it roars ashore
Global Politics
MAP: Officials urge caution, warn of danger as Hurricane Sandy becomes ‘Frankenstorm’
Indian meteorologists trying to develop more precise forecasts of critical monsoon rains
Environment
Hurricane Isaac approaches Louisiana coast
Environment
Continental U.S. sets multiple heat records after blistering June
Environment
New study finds greater risk of wildfires in U.S. from climate change; others see decline
Environment
Timely warnings likely saved lives in weekend’s spate of Midwest tornadoes
Global Politics
As Birmingham and other cities clean up, weather service rolling out radar upgrades
Environment
VIDEO: Snowy, icy weather in Seattle makes for unpleasant conditions
Environment
VIDEO: National Guard called to dig out town buried under 10 feet of snow
Environment
VIDEO: Central Plains states rocked by deadly blizzard
VIDEO: Bangkok residents worry floodwaters will innundate city this weekend
Environment
Joplin, Missouri, tornado survivors speak out
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cleanup begins after tornado in Joplin, Missouri
Drought in East Africa
Environment
Requiem for a River
Business, Economics and Jobs
Assessing the costs of the Iowa floods
Environment
Amazon Stories: Rainmaking
Environment
Massive Saharan Dust Cloud Blows Across Atlantic
Development & Education
Toronto Slammed with Record-Setting Thunderstorms and Flash Flooding
Environment
Reflecting on India’s Monsoon Rains
Teachers: Unsung Heroes of the Oklahoma City Tornado
Environment
Report: Soot #2 Contributor to Global Warming
Environment
In Sandy’s wake, Scientists Explore Links Between Warming Arctic and Extreme Weather
Environment
Canadian Power Workers Lending a Hand on Long Island
Superstorms and Climate Change