Aug 11 Maui wildfire burns 150-year-old banyan tree, threatening survival By Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press A giant 150-year-old banyan tree is among many landmarks in Lahaina which have been damaged. The sprawling tree that was the oceanside community's heart is now uncertain. The tree's limbs were scorched by a devastating fire that wiped away generations… Continue reading
Aug 11 Questions grow over wildfire warnings as Maui death toll rises By Ty O'Neil, Jennifer Kelleher, Rebecca Boone, Associated Press, Claire Rush, Associated Press/Report for America Many of survivors said in interviews Thursday that they didn’t hear any sirens or receive a warning that gave them enough time to prepare, only realizing they were in danger when they saw flames or heard explosions nearby. Continue reading
Aug 11 How the Hawaii fires will take a toll on the state’s natural treasures By Doug Glass, Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press Experts say the fires are likely to transform the landscape in unwanted ways including hastening erosion, sending sediment into waterways and degrading coral that is critically important to the islands, marine life and the humans who live nearby. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 7:50 What fueled the Hawaiian wildfires that killed dozens and leveled historic Lahaina town By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Norris Crews are still fighting fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. At least 36 people are known dead and more than 270 buildings damaged or destroyed across a blackened landscape. It's the nation's deadliest fire disaster in five years. Amna… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 5:05 Antarctic sea ice at record lows as global temperatures rise By William Brangham, Shoshana Dubnow As temperature records fall all over the planet this summer, scientists are also increasingly concerned about what’s happening to the sea ice around Antarctica. William Brangham reports. Continue watching
Jul 27 Alaska asks Supreme Court to strike down rejection of a proposed copper, gold mine By Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January blocked the proposed Pebble Mine, citing concerns with potential impacts on a rich aquatic ecosystem that supports the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 6:27 Study finds human-caused climate change a definitive factor in brutal heat waves By William Brangham, Shoshana Dubnow A new analysis finds the brutal heat waves the world has experienced over the past month would be virtually impossible without the impact of human-caused climate change. It comes from an international group of researchers that are part of an… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch 9:23 Punishing heat waves break records and disrupt life across much of the world By Geoff Bennett, Morgan Till, Teresa Cebrian Aranda The record heat across the world has been unrelenting and the World Meteorological Organization says it could last into August. The extreme weather is not limited to the heat, there is also torrential rain in some places. Special correspondents in… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch 4:00 News Wrap: Tens of millions of Americans under heat warnings or advisories In our news wrap Wednesday, tens of millions of Americans have spent another day under heat warnings or advisories, a federal judge in New York upheld a jury award of $5 million against former President Trump, Russian air raids pounded… Continue watching
Jul 17 Watch 8:06 Deadly flooding hits Northeast as heat wave tightens grip on western and southern U.S. By Geoff Bennett, Eliot Barnhart, Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako The nation remains at the mercy of nature, but nature is showing no mercy with 100 degree heat stretching from the far West across the Deep South. It comes as a weekend deluge in the Northeast washed out roads and… Continue watching