Energy & Climate / Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather

Latest in Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather

A wildfire sparked by a crash forces evacuation orders near Yosemite

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Tropical Storm Edouard slams the Texas-Louisiana line, knocking out power in heavy rain

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Plaskett Fire explodes to nearly 27,000 acres along the Big Sur coast

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A polar vortex can plunge parts of the U.S. colder than Antarctica

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

More than 40,000 people fled the Reno area as the Hawk Fire tore across northern Nevada

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Wildfires tore across Louisiana this summer, a rare disaster for the humid Gulf state

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Dead Sea is so salty that swimmers float on top and its shoreline keeps dropping

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Aral Sea drained so fast that ships now rust in the middle of a desert

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Greenland ice sheet holds enough water to raise every coastline on Earth by 24 feet

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Yellowstone sits on a magma reservoir so large that the ground itself breathes up and down

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Bug Fire burned nearly 94,000 acres across two states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

9 of the biggest nuclear power plants in the United States

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Lake Nyos suffocated 1,700 people overnight with a hidden cloud of gas

By Alexander Clark

Extreme Weather

Forecasters give a new Atlantic disturbance a 70% shot at becoming a storm

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

8 costliest hurricanes in U.S. history

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Wildfires have scorched 250,000 acres across Washington as a heat wave bakes the West

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters are watching two Atlantic systems that could become the season’s next storms

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Three Indonesian volcanoes — Ibu, Lewotobi and Semeru — erupted within hours of each other

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A wildfire is forcing evacuations east of Milton-Freewater as Oregon’s fire season roars on

By Alexander Clark

Extreme Weather

Kilauea just paused after nine straight hours of lava fountaining in episode 54

By Alexander Clark

1 2 3 … 78 Next »