Focus on Weather
A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide’s impact
WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast...
10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger
OSO, Wash. (AP) — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica...
2 Vermont communities devastated by summer flooding seek $3.5M to elevate homes for victims
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Two of the Vermont communities hardest hit by last summer’s catastrophic flooding have requested $3.5 million in state funding...
‘Flag is up’: Calgary warns outdoor water restrictions may be coming
CALGARY — The City of Calgary is warning it may restrict outdoor water use by May 1 if dry conditions keep up. And...
UN warns planet ‘on the brink’ after warmest decade on record
Global temperatures “smashed” heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday —...
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases,...
‘The lost season’: Winter comes to a close as Canada’s warmest on record
The warmest winter on record could have far-reaching effects on everything from wildfire season to erosion, climatologists say, while offering a preview of...
Too much Atlantic in Atlantic City: Beach erosion has casinos desperately seeking sand by summer
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The ocean and beaches have always been a part of Atlantic City’s identity: from salt water taffy to...
Oregon county plants trees to honor victims of killer 2021 heat wave
PORTLAND — Family members of some of the people killed by record-breaking heat in the Portland, Oregon, area three years ago gathered over...
Arizona: record number of heat-associated deaths in 2023, after blistering temps
PHOENIX — Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county on Wednesday reported they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year —...
