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
Nov 04 Tropical storm Eta hits Nicaragua with rains, deadly mudslides By Associated Press The storm had weakened from the Category 4 hurricane that battered the coast, but it was moving so slowly and dumping so much rain that much of Central America was on high alert. Eta had sustained winds of 50 mph… Continue reading
Nov 03 Hurricane Eta slams into Nicaragua as Category 4 storm By Associated Press The heart of powerful Hurricane Eta has moved ashore in Nicaragua with devastating winds and rains that had already destroyed rooftops and caused rivers to overflow. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch 3:22 News Wrap: NYC schools in coronavirus hot spots to close In our news wrap Monday, some New York City schools will close Tuesday in areas where COVID-19 infections are on the rise. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an order affecting 100 public and 200 private schools, citing a lack of testing… Continue watching
Sep 14 LIVE MAP: Track Hurricane Sally’s path Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday morning near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding. Continue reading
Sep 09 Think 2020’s disasters are wild? Experts predict worse in the future By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press What's happening is the basic physics of climate change. Scientists know it will only get crazier because what we're seeing now is what they foresaw 20 years ago would happen. Continue reading
Sep 09 Why some hurricanes grow into massive storms — and why they are hard to predict By Fedor Kossakovski “The worst forecaster nightmare is having a storm bearing down on a populated coastline. You go to bed and it's a tropical storm and you wake up with a Cat[egory] 4.”… Continue reading