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An empty shelf in a grocery store.
Natural disasters
Preparing for hurricanes: 3 essential reads
A woman stands near the corner of a house next to a flooded field.
Climate Change
In Idai’s wake, aid groups worry about ‘double tragedy’ of cholera
We Almost Fixed Climate Change. Why Couldn’t We?
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Flubbing the Trend Forecast
Arts, Culture & Media
IKEA behind bars
Arts, Culture & Media
Weaving Climate Change Data into Art
A man walks in the snow next to the Houses of Parliament in London on March 1. Brtain and much of the rest of Europe have been hit with a late winter blast linked to extreme warming in the Arctic.
Environment
Europe’s cold blast, Arctic’s heat wave are ‘two sides of the same coin’
The Future of FEMA After a Year of Disasters
Full Episode
The moon over Earth, as seen from the GOES-16 satellite
Technology
Satellites are destined to become space junk. But in the future, we may be able to retool them.
Winter boots
Technology
What are the best snow boots to wear?
Men salvage metal sheets from a destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew ravaged Jeremie, Haiti.
Environment
Almost 1 million Haitians are in ‘urgent need of humanitarian assistance’ after Hurricane Matthew
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cost of Joplin, Missouri, tornado: $3 billion
Environment
Strange weather and climate change
El Niño from NOAA
Environment
The current El Niño may hold lessons for how to deal with a warming planet
Snow water equivalent across the upper Conejos Watershed, located in south central Colorado and part of the headwaters for the Rio Grande, on April 6th, 2015. Image by Airborne Snow Observatory program, NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology
Environment
Can the ‘Godzilla’ El Niño’ solve California’s drought problem?
Shovellers dance in Montreal.
Culture
Shoveling snow while showing off their dance moves
Near Al Mukalla, Yemen, where people were isolated by heavy flooding from Cyclone Chapala
Culture
A rare first-person account of living through the tropical cyclone that struck Yemen
A man gestures as he tries to save a vehicle swept away by flood waters in Yemen's island of Socotra November 2, 2015.
Environment
The ‘Galapagos of the Arab World’ was just lashed with a cyclone. Now it’s headed for Yemen
hurricane
Environment
8 hurricanes that almost packed the punch of Patricia
A Bagdad resident plunges into the Tigris river, sandals and all.
Environment
As Mideast temperatures soar, Iraqis lament the ‘fiery August, that burns the nails on the doors’
Sideshow Podcast: Teach Me How to Summah (feat. Howard Kremer)
Full Episode
Wildfires
Environment
Canada is burning and America is choking on its smoke
A man uses a hand-held fan to cool down his son, while waiting for their turn for a medical checkup, outside Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) during intense hot weather in Karachi, Pakistan, June 23, 2015.
Environment
Pakistanis must deal with a heatwave while fasting for Ramadan
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
El Niño Makes Atlantic hurricanes less likely.
Environment
Welcome to the ‘Double El Niño’ — and more extreme weather
Volunteer search and rescue team en route to save a pair of Finnish cross-country skiers stuck on Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland.
Lifestyle
Winter storms and intrepid tourists keep Iceland’s search and rescue teams busy
A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.
Environment
South America’s largest city is almost out of water
Ocean tides surround Mont Saint-Michel, the Benedictine abbey that's perched on a rocky islet.
Culture
Tourists follow in the steps of early pilgrims as high tides surround Mont Saint-Michel
The polar jet stream carries weather around the Northern Hemisphere. Climate researcher Jenifer Francis believes the rapidly warming Arctic is slowing and warping the jet stream, allowing Arctic air to spill farther south in some places.
Science
How the warming Arctic might be behind Boston’s deep freeze
Some of the nearly 250,000 Malawians displaced by recent flooding in the southern part of the country sit for a photo at a school where they've taken refuge. Far from the epicenter of international flood relief efforts, the 4,220 people in this isolated c
Environment
Here’s what happens when increasingly severe weather meets deforestation
Snow in Boston
Environment
What are your 50 words for snow?
Matee Ullah Khan and members of his ski school at the Malam Jabba ski area in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Sports
Pakistan’s only ski school is back in business, in the ‘Switzerland of Pakistan’
"Spring is coming" — A pedestrian walks past a pile of snow in Boston.
Environment
How is the world getting both a) warmer and b) snowier in some places? Here’s how.
Aerial view of the dust storm in Western Iran.
Environment
You think the snow in the US is bad? Spare a thought for Iranians caught in a dust storm
Oliver's TRavels offering rain-free weddings
Business
A British travel company offers a rain-free wedding day
Malawians evacuated after devastating floods in late January wait out another deluge at a makeshift shelter. As many as 200,000 people have been displaced and crops were destroyed by what the country's president says is the worst flooding in its history.
Environment
The flood of the half-century — and you probably haven’t heard about it
Andrea's snow selfie
Environment
It’s a day of wild winter weather for PRI’s The World
Cars were trapped for days during last year's snowstorm in Jerusalem.
Lifestyle
It’s snowmageddon time for the Middle East — again
Seal with a tracking tag
Environment
Scientists are putting seals to work to gather ocean current data
A car is covered in snow in Orchard Park outside of Buffalo, New York, November 19, 2014.
Environment
The northeastern US isn’t quite a winter ‘wonderland’ for refugees from warmer countries
One year after Typhoon Haiyan, about 5,000 people still live in evacuation centers or tents like this one in Sandy Beach, near Tacloban.
Development
A year later, communities are still suffering from Typhoon Haiyan
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
Flood in Kashmir
Environment
A journalist returns to his hometown in Kashmir after the worst flood in a century
Punjabi flood victims are evacuated by boat from their flooded house following heavy rain in Jhang, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014.
Environment
Pakistanis rush to relief efforts after devastating floods in Punjab
NOAA researchers Carrie McAtee and Kristine Meise board a rigid hull inflatable boat deployed from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island.
Environment
For a team of researchers stranded on an island with a storm coming, the solution was simple. Send in the Navy
NOAA researchers Carrie McAtee and Kristine Meise board a rigid hull inflatable boat deployed from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island.
Environment
For a team of researchers stranded on an island with a storm coming, the solution was simple. Send in the Navy
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
Funny River fire
Environment
June set a new global temperature record
Funny River fire
Environment
June set a new global temperature record
Environment
Midwest and Tennessee Brace for Heavy Snow
Astronaut Reid Wiseman's photo from the International Space Station of Hurricane Arthur.
Environment
From space, Hurricane Arthur makes a stunning 4th of July show
Environment
A new tool seeks to put more knowledge about storm surge in the hands of Americans
Global Politics
Galveston residents: ‘Show me the money!’
Environment
Don’t like the weather? Now we can change it
Environment
Don’t like the weather? Now we can change it
Environment
Football, meet bad weather: the weekend’s wildcard
Environment
Evacuations in Haiti under way
A car is seen stranded in the flooded town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade.
Environment
While the rain has stopped in the Balkans, rescue workers still have a lot to do