If you’ve eaten too many cookies or are bored with no bowl games on New Year’s Day, go hiking instead. Here’s a look at trails and safety tips.
Author: Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY
Climate change won’t make winter storms and blizzards go away. Scientists explain why.
Scientists say extreme weather events, such as the Buffalo blizzard, could happen more often or be more intense as the Earth’s climate changes.
Another above-average wildfire season for 2022. How climate change is making fires harder to predict and fight.
Fire season 2022 surpassed the 10-year average for number of fires and acres burned. Experts say climate change is making things worse.
What are the effects of climate change? How they disrupt our daily life, fuel disasters.
Climate change is real and its effects are spawning a climate crisis that impacts weather, wildlife, food supplies and other aspects of daily life.
Host city for 2030 Winter Olympics hasn’t yet been named. Why? It may not be cold enough.
The International Olympic Committee will delay choosing a host for the 2030 Winter Olympics citing climate change concerns.
A rogue wave caused a cruise ship tragedy. They occur more often than you think.
A rogue wave crashed into the Viking Polaris cruise ship between Antarctica and Argentina. What are rogue waves and does climate change cause them?
How is climate change affecting the US? The government is preparing a nearly 1,700 page answer.
As federal officials enter final stages of preparing the national climate change assessment, they’re seeking comment and art to illustrate the report.
Disaster after the disaster: A maze of 30 federal entities complicate recovery after tragedy, report finds
A new report from the Government Accounting Office says FEMA is part of a maze of federal organizations with rules that complicate disaster recovery.
‘Things are grim for the species’: Endangered right whales continue to decline in Atlantic
Scientists are renewing calls to do more to protect the right whales, one of the world’s most endangered large whale populations.
The Gulf of Mexico rose 15 feet in part of Florida as Ian drowned residents, carried away cars and left a trail of rubble, analysis finds
“Pictures don’t do the destruction justice,” tweeted Jeffry Evans, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service office in Houston, Texas.