An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.

Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path?

Last year was the third hottest on record, with the World Meteorological Organization this week warning that 2025 continued a run of “extraordinary” global temperatures. The EU has said the Paris climate agreement of 1.5C could be broken before 2030, a decade sooner than expected.

Over the past week, there have been several deadly flash floods across the country, in central Texas, New Mexico, and the Carolinas. Most notably, the flash floods in central Texas and New Mexico were triggered by slow-moving thunderstorms that dumped ...

As we say goodbye to 2025, we’re taking a look back at some of the significant weather events of the year. Fortunately, it was a quieter year (extreme weather-wise) in Connecticut compared to previous years. However, other parts of the United States (and ...

A glimmer of truth seeped out through the pages of The New York Times (NYT) recently, in a story examining how “unprepared” large parts of the nation are in the face of natural disasters. Although it is impossible to predict the exact dates of such ...

Human-induced climate change made Australia’s scorching early January heatwave five times more likely, according to a new analysis, as experts warn that such extreme weather is rapidly shifting from rare event to regular occurrence.