May 24 WATCH: NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season with 3 to 6 major storms By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Federal meteorologists are forecasting a record-shattering seventh straight unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season. Continue reading
Oct 05 Extreme weather doesn’t usually motivate Americans to move. Here’s why By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas For many, the question is not as simple as choosing to pack up and move away from a place to escape the threat of extreme weather, or the devastation left in its wake, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Continue reading
Sep 12 Watch 4:27 Climate change is making extreme weather events more common: study By PBS NewsHour Scientists and forecasters who study the connection between climate change and extreme weather say the rapid rates of sea-level rise are accelerating the frequency and intensity of severe weather events—like hurricanes, heat waves and more. Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Scientist with… Continue watching
Aug 28 Live Map: Track the path of Hurricane Ida By Rebecca Santana, Kevin McGill, Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters and utility crews mobilized Monday after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and made a shambles of the electrical grid. Continue reading
Aug 20 Watch 6:00 News Wrap: FDA to grant full approval to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine next week By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Friday, The Food and Drug Administration is ready to grant full approval to Pfizer's COVID vaccine. A federal appeals court temporarily upheld the CDC's latest moratorium on pandemic evictions. San Francisco became the nation's first major… Continue watching
Jul 05 Tropical Storm Elsa headed to landfall on central Cuba coast By Andrea Rodriguez, Associated Press By Sunday, Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as a precaution against the possibility of heavy flooding from a storm that already battered several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people. Continue reading
Jul 02 Elsa strengthens into season’s first hurricane in Caribbean By Dánica Coto, Associated Press Elsa has strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and it's battering the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports under the threat of flash flooding and landslides. Continue reading
Dec 27 2020 in review: Stories you may have missed and why they matter By Molly Enking It’s been decades since one world event has dominated the news cycle so completely. We lost more than 1.75 million people globally and more than 330,000 in the U.S. to COVID-19. Here’s a list of some other events that shook the… Continue reading
Nov 21 Watch 5:55 A record hurricane season is ending. What does climate change have to do with it? By PBS NewsHour Hurricane Iota made landfall in Central America earlier this week as a Category 4 storm. It's the 30th storm this Hurricane season, surpassing 2005 as the year with the most hurricanes ever. With this record Atlantic Hurricane season officially ending… Continue watching
Nov 20 How to help communities affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota By Patty Gorena Morales, Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Here are some organizations working to alleviate the crisis throughout the region, and others offering aid to specific communities in need. Continue reading