As the near-certainty of a record-breaking super El Niño has become clear, many people are confused about how El Niño may affect them. Here’s what you need to know.

In forecasting Hurricane Isaias, meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami have shaped their predictions to closely match an AI hurricane model from Google DeepMind.

US consumers are likely to face steeper prices for their morning lattes, thanks to the near-record strong super El Niño still strengthening in the Pacific Ocean. El Niño is expected to combine with pr...

The US just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to new data released Wednesda...

In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off a grant to a long-running program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal. Just over a year later, more than 1,100 people peris...

New research using samples taken from ancient and living coral shows that El Niño events have become more intense in the last 40 years.

For the second week in a row, Hawaii is in the crosshairs of an intensifying tropical storm — twice the number it gets in non-El Niño years.

There is a nearly 70% chance that the building Super El Niño will be the strongest such event on record, according to a NOAA forecast released Thursday.

An unusually long and far-reaching communications outage hobbled the National Weather Service just as deadly severe thunderstorms were tearing across the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday evening.

The Trump administration is ending federal support for Arctic Report Card.

July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

An unusually strong heat dome will scorch much of the western United States this weekend, bringing the hottest temperatures so far this year to tens of millions from California to Canada.

Flooding this July has felt extraordinary, but it’s part of a multi-year pattern where extremes are becoming the new normal.

This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.

Wildfires in Canada are pouring thick clouds of smoke into the US and will usher in unhealthy air quality for millions of people in Northeast and Midwest.

This El Niño could set the new benchmark for peak intensity, with potentially dire implications for the extreme weather events it influences worldwide.

Temperatures are skyrocketing for the third straight day across the Eastern US, but there’s at least three different ways to say how hot it really is.

Temperatures are skyrocketing for the third straight day across the Eastern US, but there’s at least three different ways to say how hot it really is.

Summer has barely started in the Northern Hemisphere, but already it’s offering an oppressive preview of life on a hotter planet.

The United States has led the world in observing the oceans — but cuts and threats of cuts have researchers worried it is no longer a reliable partner.

The government’s bid to shield the AI company from a pollution lawsuit is raising concerns that citizens could lose a longstanding tool for enforcing environmental rules.

The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical system of ocean monitoring that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipa...

A bipartisan group of senators are trying to triple the size of the Hurricane Hunter fleet — the hulking and aging aircraft used to fly directly into hurricanes

“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide ...

The Trump administration will dismantle a $368 million monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans, sparking alarm among scientists

Temperature records are being smashed across Europe as parts of the continent swelter under a heat dome that is bringing extreme temperatures alarmingly early in the year.

Time is ticking down to the start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and NOAA’s first forecast for it is finalized.

The coming “Super” El Niño is poised to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide as it strengthens into winter.

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