How CARE and its partners are providing crucial aid to communities devastated by Hurricane Idalia, the strongest storm to hit Florida in over a century.

Some Maui residents are questioning the effectiveness of the emergency warning system employed as the wildfires spread rapidly across Lahaina and other parts on Tuesday. Hawaii’s attorney general is leading a review of the emergency response.

Firefighters in southern California were battling three separate brush fires that started on Friday afternoon amid a blistering heatwave. The fires were all within 40 miles (65km) of each other in mostly rural areas across Riverside county, south-east of Los Angeles.

The warmest year ever recorded, 2016, started off with a powerful El Nino that helped to boost global temperatures.

European lawmakers issued a stark warning about the region’s growing water crisis ahead of another extreme summer, saying there is a pressing need to tackle issues such as scarcity, food security and pollution.

Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.

If a multiday blackout in Phoenix coincided with a heat wave, nearly half the population would require emergency department care for heat stroke or other heat-related illnesses, a new study suggests. While Phoenix was the most extreme example, the study warned that other cities are also at risk. Since 2015, the number of major blackouts nationwide has more than doubled.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and oil production has fallen amid early season wildfires in Canada's Alberta province. Within days, 90 blazes were seen burning across the region, with 23 considered out of control.

Seven different billion-dollar or more extreme weather events struck the U.S. during the first four months of 2023. That's one of the "notable" findings from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) April State of the Climate report, released Monday.

Rocket Lab launched two toaster-size satellites for NASA on Sunday, the first of four "cubesats" designed to provide hourly updates of typhoon and hurricane development in a bid to improve forecasting and provide new insights into how tropical storms evolve and intensify.

Tornadoes are becoming more frequent in populated parts of the United States and are often occurring as damaging clusters — a development seen in recent deadly outbreaks from Alabama to Michigan. The number, damage and deadliness of individual tornadoes has held roughly steady over the past 50 years, federal experts with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration told The Hill.

Spring has offered California a welcome reprieve from the record rains and historic snowfall that hammered the state in recent weeks, but a new danger wrought by the warming weather looms large. The state’s enormous snowpack will soon begin to melt – and communities are bracing for waters to rise yet again. Trillions of gallons of water packed within the record level of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada range are expected to rush into rivers and reservoirs as the weather heats up, heightening flood risks in areas already saturated by the state’s extremely wet winter.

As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.

A rare, long-track tornado left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night — killing at least 25 people, tearing buildings and leaving thousands of homes without power. At least one person also died in storms in Alabama.

Rancher Robert Puga's cattle had been stranded and starving in the snow for weeks. "We've never seen record snow like this, ever. And we're losing cattle left and right," Puga said. His ranch is in the far north of California in Trinity County, in an area that's been hit especially hard by the state's recent wave of unprecedented snowfall.

Climate change is making flooding and wind damage from hurricanes more common in the U.S. That means dangerous storms are getting more frequent, even though the total number of storms isn't changing.

A California reservoir is overspilling for the first time in decades following heavy rainfall. Lake Cachuma, a reservoir in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County, was 99.7 percent full on February 8. The lake was less than a third full two months ago.

It was New Year's Eve in Corralitos, California, and after several days of heavy storms, it looked like the bridge was not going to make it. About seven households in the remote community east of Santa Cruz were about to be cut off from the main road. But as rains poured down and the creek rose, Darrel Hardy came up with a plan.

Scientists say phenomenon coupled with growing climate crisis likely to push global temperatures ‘off the chart’

Disasters costing at least $1bn killed 474 people last year, government figures show