A new climate change risk index reveals the best states for Americans to escape the impacts of extreme weather like the recent devastating Category 4 Hurricane Helene. Using data from independent ...

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Eight U.S. East Coast cities are at high or very high risk of "extreme" flood damage based on current scenarios, with New York and New Orleans facing some of the greatest dangers, a new study finds.

As climate change drives more extreme weather, including wetter floods and hotter heat waves, researchers are developing tools to help us better plan for the future. One tool is called the Connecticut ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...

This year saw a number of extreme weather events in Connecticut amid historic rainfall and flooding to months of drought conditions causing dozens of wildfires to break out across the state. According ...