The Southwest Is 30 Feet From the Lights Going Out
Both Colorado River reservoirs just hit record lows, and the water 40 million people depend on has been running a deficit since 2000.
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The nexus between extreme weather events and climate change - we will be connecting the dots between the two and why it matters to you.
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America's Hottest Month on Record Was Won at Night
Daytime highs ranked sixth of 1,579 months. Overnight lows ranked first.
The Y-Axis Keeps Moving
Every ECMWF run makes this El Niño bigger. We are out of historical comparisons.
The Storm That Didn't Have a Name
Fifteen years ago Irene nearly washed me and my photographer off a road in Schoharie. This week the same valleys got a thousand-year rainfall from something nobody bothered to name.
One Oyster Filters 50 Gallons a Day. We Lost 99 Percent of Them.
Climate change is fouling the Chesapeake faster than we can clean it. Oysters are the counterweight.
Detroit has the worst air on Earth and the Guadalupe is cresting again — all on the same day
Same morning, 1,500 miles apart. 115 million Americans are breathing smoke, and in Kerr County they're pulling people off rooftops for the second time in twelve months.
They Blocked Me for Citing the Science. Now One of Them Writes the National Climate Assessment.
For years a handful of climate deniers blocked me rather than answer a citation. This week one of them was handed the government's flagship climate report, and no one got to vote on it.
Fleeing Tyranny, Fleeing the Heat
My family kept the door open for 250 years. Here's why I won't be the one to slam it shut.
Where the Hell Are Our Priorities?
A few days with extreme weather survivors, and a moment at the reflecting pool I can't stop thinking about.
El Niño Is Strengthening Faster Than the Last Two Super Events
It is strengthening faster than 1997 or 2015, the last two super events, on an ocean already overheated by fossil fuels. The floods and drought we just watched collide are the preview.
FIFA Moved a World Cup for the Heat. Then Scheduled One in Miami in July.
I pulled the temperature records for all eleven U.S. host cities. The numbers are not reassuring.