Sep 01 Watch 5:44 How a super El Niño is fueling extreme weather patterns By William Brangham, Azhar Merchant, Bridget Craig The potentially record-breaking El Niño has brought a relentless stretch of extreme weather across the country. Experts watching the climate and weather patterns are warning that the effects could persist well into 2027. William Brangham discussed the super El Niño… Continue watching
Sep 01 LIVE MAP: Track the path of Tropical Storm Edouard By Jamie Stengle, Associated Press The storm was upgraded Monday night from a tropical depression and forecasters expected it to make landfall in Texas later on Tuesday. Continue reading
Aug 31 Watch 2:26 Grand Canyon flash flood leaves 2 dead, others missing By Ali Rogin, Solveig Rennan Sandbulte Search and rescue teams have recovered two bodies following this weekend's flash floods in the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service says more than a dozen other people remain missing. Lodges and hotels are closed inside the park and more… Continue watching
Aug 31 Watch 6:30 Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation By William Brangham, Courtney Norris Alarms are being sounded again about the risks of artificial intelligence after hundreds of OpenAI’s autonomous agents violated restrictions and hacked into another company without being told to do so. Anthropic and Meta have had similar events with their own… Continue watching
Aug 31 Watch 4:57 How NASA's new space telescope could help solve mysteries of dark energy and dark matter By Amna Nawaz, Miles O'Brien, Karina Cuevas, Bridget Craig NASA launched its newest space telescope, undertaking its biggest mission yet to study the universe on a much larger scale. A roughly $4 billion project, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will allow scientists to get panoramic views of space… Continue watching
Aug 31 LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Karina The storm has intensified quickly since becoming a hurricane Sunday and has been fueled by warm waters far offshore, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Continue reading
Aug 30 NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The bus-sized telescope — named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — will take more than three months to reach its destination. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch Why America faces a primary care shortage – and why it matters By William Brangham, Madison Staten, Solveig Rennan Sandbulte, Satvi Sunkara, Alexa Gold, Zoie Lambert, Juliet Fuisz There’s a critical need for primary care physicians across America, but a shortage of doctors and rising insurance costs are forcing people to forgo preventive care altogether. Americans die of preventable, treatable diseases at far higher rates than people who… Continue reading
Aug 28 Why America faces a primary care shortage – and why it matters By William Brangham There’s a critical need for primary care physicians across America, but a shortage of doctors and rising insurance costs are forcing people to forgo preventive care altogether. Americans die of preventable, treatable diseases at far higher rates than people who… Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 5:12 Devastating scale of Himalayan floods comes into focus as rescuers arrive By Stephanie Sy, Eliot Barnhart Three days after a catastrophic wall of water, mud and rock tore through Nepal’s Himalayan valleys, the scale of the disaster is still coming into focus. At least 579 people are now confirmed dead, nearly 2,000 remain missing, and the… Continue watching