Winds, Blizzards and Triple-Digit Heat Put Over Half the U.S. in the Path of Extreme Weather
A sprawling, high-impact weather system pushed more than half of the United States into overlapping threats—blizzards, damaging winds, severe storms and unusual heat—creating a rare “everything at once” scenario that disrupted travel, closed schools and prompted emergency preparations across multiple regions. The extreme conditions stretched from a surprising California heatwave to Upper Midwest blizzards and […]
Co-Authors Blast Removal of Climate Science Guidance For Judges, Dangerous Precedent
A group of leading academics who helped write the U.S. federal judiciary’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is criticizing court officials for removing a chapter on climate science from the manual’s newest edition, warning that the decision politicizes a tool meant to help judges evaluate complex scientific testimony. 28 co-authors of the manual’s fourth edition […]
Northeast Blizzard Locks Down Major Cities, Cancels Thousands of Flights and Knocks Out Power
A powerful winter storm slammed the U.S. Northeast, trapping millions indoors from Maryland to Maine as blizzard warnings, road travel bans, and widespread closures reshaped daily life across the region. The heavy snow is generating damaging winds that knocked out power, immobilized transportation, and forced governments and institutions to shut down. Meteorologists said the storm […]
Chicago: Underground climate change is ‘deforming’ land under buildings and ‘things are sinking’, says study
Downtown Chicago is “sinking” due to “subsurface heat islands” or underground climate change, US scientists have warned in a study. For the first time, experts at Northwestern University in Illinois have linked the phenomenon to shifting land under urban areas. As the ground heats up, layers of clay also deform and this causes the foundations […]
