The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.

As Canada's 2026 wildfire season intensifies, First Nations communities are once again among those bearing the greatest burden, with entire communities evacuated, homes destroyed, and thousands of Indigenous residents displaced by fast-moving fires. According to the Government of Canada, hundreds of active wildfires continue to burn across the country, with the largest fires concentrated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. Smoke from the fires has spread well beyond Canada's borders, prompting air quality alerts throughout the Upper Midwest and Northeast United States.

The face of summer is transforming, as people today face more frequent, longer-lasting and hotter heat waves than they did several decades ago

Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in young children.

The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastat...

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Arctic cold and high winds will add to the issues through the weekend

Confidence has increased in precipitation amounts, but still plenty of lurking issues with the forecast and ultimate impacts

While the Trump administration rethinks federal disaster relief, Republicans have praised how Cajun Navy groups have responded to major storms.

Days of heavy rain pushed waterways to record flood levels in a mountainous region north of Seattle. “Do not wait,” local officials warned residents as they urged them to seek higher ground.

Soil tests are best left to experts in labs. We found local and mail-in options that address multiple concerns.

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Soil tests are best left to experts in labs. We found local and mail-in options that address multiple concerns.

Floods across Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have killed nearly 1,000 people in less than a week.

David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer…

From effective rain-enhancing technology to a long, secretive history of trying to weaponize storms, there’s fertile ground for misinformation.

The system made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread flooding and destruction.

A little advanced planning can keep you safe and offer comfort after an earthquake strikes.

Decades after Betsy and Katrina, the community faces another threat — a canal proposal promising “progress” that could threaten its survival.

A new Associated Press analysis found that it's taking more than a month, on average, for President Trump to approve major disaster declarations.

The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

Hurricane forecasts have made huge leaps since Katrina hit 20 years ago, but that progress is threatened by Trump administration cuts to research