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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What George Stephanopoulos Gets Wrong About Climate Policy
The reporter's interview with H.R. McMaster was a missed opportunity.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Could Facebook Have Caught Its 'Jew Hater' Ad Targeting?
“Facebook can monitor the things it does that make it money.”
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NOAA / CIRA / Colorado State University When the Planet Looks Like a Climate-Change Ad
“We kept on trying to wrap our heads around [that forecast] as we made it.”
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Mark Makela / Reuters The National Weather Service's New Philosophy
The agency’s recent strategic update gives it a much more active role in girding for disasters.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Hurricane Irma: ‘Everything Is Under Water, I Mean Everything’
“I have little doubt Irma will go down as one of the most infamous in Atlantic hurricane history.”
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Adrees Latif / Reuters How Hurricane Irma Is Sucking Florida’s Beaches Dry
The hurricane is leaving flat expanses of land where ocean used to be, but all that water will rush back as storm surge.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires?
It was supposed to be a quiet year.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters There's Little Evidence That Trump Will Delay a Major U.S. Climate Report
“It appears we continue to be on track for publication at the beginning of November,” says one of the study’s authors.
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Ricardo Rojas / Reuters The Irony of How Hurricanes Move
There’s a reason forecasters still track the giant storms by hand.
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Paul Dodd / Norwegian Polar Institute A Year on Ice
Why scientists are preparing to freeze the research vessel Polarstern in sea ice near the North Pole
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters To Soften a Hurricane's Blow, Don't Drain the Swamp
Wetlands directly prevented half a billion dollars in damages during Hurricane Sandy, a new study has found.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters Hurricane Harvey Is the Rainiest Atlantic Hurricane Ever Measured
At least one high-profile National Weather Service forecast got it right.
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Richard Carson / Reuters Does Harvey Represent a New Normal for Hurricanes?
Research suggests a warming world will have less frequent, more intense tropical cyclones.
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NASA Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey?
“The human contribution can be up to 30 percent or so of the total rainfall coming out of the storm.”
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters A Thorny Debate in Plate Tectonics May Finally Be Resolved
Scientists believe they’ve answered: How deep is a continental plate?
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Bob Wick / BLM What Kind of Monuments Does President Trump Value?
He’s spoken in support of Confederate statues while threatening to undo as many as 27 conservation parks.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Can the U.S. Government Seize an Anti-Trump Website's Visitor Logs?
The Department of Justice is seeking the 1.3 million IP addresses that accessed a website advertising Inauguration Day protests.
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'Don't Be a Sucker' / Internet Archive Why an Anti-Fascist Short Film Is Going Viral
“I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters Nuclear Anxiety Returns to America
People are talking about thermonuclear war again—and they're out of practice.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters 2016 Was Hot, Weird, and Unprecedented, Says NOAA
Five lessons from the agency’s report on the year’s record-breaking weather
