August 27, 2021 How to prepare your home for flooding this hurricane season As Tropical Storm Ida approaches western Cuba, inching closer towards the U.S., residents of the Gulf Coast are racing to prepare.
August 26, 2021 California fires close in on communities as smoke chokes Lake Tahoe 11 wildfires in California continued to rage on Thursday, forcing evacuations, shuttering schools and choking communities with heavy smoke.
August 20, 2021 Search for 17 missing in North Carolina floods continues The search continues for the now 17 people missing in North Carolina on Friday morning following another night of wet weather.
August 17, 2021 Nation's largest wildfire shifts toward California community due to gusty winds Gusty winds drove the nation's largest wildfire toward a Northern California county seat as firefighters struggled to contain the month-old blaze amid forecasts of more dangerous weather.
August 14, 2021 Some COVID deaths are linked to Western wildfires, study shows As wildfires continue to tear through the western U.S., scientists reported that particulate matter from the blazes has been linked to an excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
August 13, 2021 Wildfires take toll on tropical Pacific islands A metal roof sits atop the burned remains of a homestead on the once-lush slopes of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea — a dormant volcano and the state’s tallest peak — charred cars and motorcycles strewn about as wind-whipped sand and ash blast the scorched landscape.
August 12, 2021 First water cuts in US West supply to hammer Arizona farmers The cutbacks in Colorado River supply next year will be a blow for agriculture in Pinal County, Arizona's top producer of cotton, barley and livestock.
August 12, 2021 Wildfire threatens Montana communities as West continues to burn A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states.
August 12, 2021 Scientists challenge 'alarm bells' in IPCC climate change report: 'Not the end of the world' In the first release of a three-part report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned this week of the consequences of a rapidly warming world spurred largely by human-influenced climate change.
August 12, 2021 Northwest sees more sizzling temperatures as heat wave hits much of US Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling center in a vacant building in Portland, Oregon, one of many such places being set up as the Northwest sees another stretch of sizzling temperatures.
