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Torrential rains have submerged at least one-quarter of Bangladesh, washing away the few things that count as assets for some of the world’s poorest people — their goats and chickens, houses of mud and tin, sacks of rice stored for the lean season.

A day after roaring ashore as a hurricane, Hanna lashed the Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday with high winds and drenching rains that destroyed boats, flooded streets and knocked out power across a region already reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases.

Hawaii residents on Sunday were bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Douglas, which was threatening to bring sustained winds of near 85 mph and torrential rainfall in some areas, forecasters said.

Polar bears could become nearly extinct by the end of the century as a result of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic if global warming continues unabated, scientists said Monday.

Opponents have criticized the program as social engineering. Advocates have lauded it as long overdue. And for flood-prone cities nationwide, the controversial plan has become a test case for grappling with the overlapping challenges of racial inequity and climate change.

For more than 40 years, scientists have expressed the answer as a range of possible temperature increases, between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 and 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit), that will result from carbon dioxide levels doubling from preindustrial times.

A powerful earthquake on the Alaska Peninsula jolted coastal communities late Tuesday, and some residents briefly scrambled for higher ground over fears of a tsunami.

Blistering heat in Florida’s state prisons — some of which lack air conditioning in living spaces — is always concern for family members and advocates during the summer months, but this year it’s compounded by a recent mandate that all inmates wear masks most of the day as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

By Tess Sheets

Jul 22, 2020

With a hot spell in July, garden soil might be drying out faster than usual. Here's which plants will need extra attention.

This year’s startling heat across much of Siberia would have been all but impossible without human influence on climate change, researchers have concluded.

For much of the United States, the last several days have been brutal: Record temperatures recorded around the country, and coronavirus case numbers are on the rise as well, complicating efforts to protect people at risk.

Scientists released a study that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of prolonged heat by at least 600 times, maybe tens of thousands.

Joe Biden released a plan Tuesday aimed at combating climate change and spurring economic growth in part by overhauling America’s energy industry

Chicago has learned many lessons since the deadly 1995 heat wave, but as hot weather settles in this summer, some worry the COVID-19 pandemic could upset that progress.

A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail.

Despite being pulled under the water repeatedly, Nathalia Bruno was able to continue gasping for air until she tumbled out into the Passaic River and, eventually, climbed up on its bank.

Political pressure from the White House and a series of “crazy in the middle of the night” texts, emails and phone calls caused top federal weather officials to wrongly admonish a weather office for a tweet that contradicted President Trump about Hurricane Dorian in 2019, an inspector general report found.

Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a $5.5 billion plan to keep the island chain functioning after a devastating storm. It involves strengthening U.S. 1 in six places, elevating 7,300 houses, floodproofing 3,800 buildings and buying and demolishing about 300 homes.

The heat is on. And for most of America it’ll stay on through the rest of the month and maybe longer, meteorologists say.

Intense wildfires in the Arctic have released more polluting gases into the Earth’s atmosphere in the last month than any other fires in 18 years of data collection, European scientists said in a report Tuesday.