Two decades of Earth data at your fingertips

Check out NASA's latest offering on two decades of changes on Earth, namely detailed views of volanoes fuming, hurricanes flooding, dams being …

What made the rain in Hurricane Harvey so extreme?

Combination of unusually high rain rates and long duration has resulted in a very large area with 30 to 45 inches of rain in a few days

Will America’s trillion-dollar investment in new infrastructure withstand tomorrow’s disasters?

Communities are increasingly keeping climate change in mind as they plan roads, sewers and energy grids for the future

Hurricane Matthew is just the latest unnatural disaster to strike Haiti

At least 1,000 people perished when Hurricane Matthew battered Haiti last week, destroying houses and displacing tens of thousands

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Caribbean camaraderie

Reality check: 2017 hurricanes wreaked the most havoc in 48 years

Limiting temperature rise 1.5-2°C may cut down number of tropical cyclones but not their severity

$306 billion—total cost of climate disasters in US in 2017

A hyperactive hurricane season and deadly wildfire events are responsible for this record-breaking economic loss

A pecking order falls

The veil of civilisation and Hurricane Sandy

El Niño did not influence global climate in 2017, but still anomalies are sobering

In 2017, carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface was 405 ppm—greater than the 2016 level

Coral tradition loses shape

“The climate crisis is here and now”

Increasing risk of extreme weather has made it easier to have conversations on environment in El Salvador, the country’s minister of …

Did 2015 make us more climate wise?

Last year, weather records were broken left, right and centre all over the world as the world witnessed cold waves, heat waves, droughts, …

Hurricanes with pretty female names more deadly

Changing a severe hurricane’s name from “Charley” to “Eloise” could triple its death rate, suggest researchers

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Change of climate in the US

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Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…