Stories by Chelsea Harvey

Hurricane Debby flooded the Big Bend region of Florida a year after it was pounded by Category 4 Hurricane Idalia

Damage from high-frequency storms is rising faster than losses from major disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires

Hundreds of thousands of people die from extreme temperatures every year, more than any other type of weather disaster

Hurricane Beryl exposed the dangers of what happens when a storm cuts off power and a heat wave follows in its wake

Miami and New York City officials say they need more insight into how searing temperatures affect homeless people and other vulnerable populations

Scientists, pilots and even a Jesuit priest have tried over decades to understand some of the most ferocious storms on Earth, but climate change is making such efforts to avert damage more difficult

California is launching a heat wave ranking system, but it’s unclear how well such efforts actually inform people about heat risks

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet

With a heat dome baking the eastern U.S., emergency departments in New England and the Midwest have seen a spike in heat-related cases

The first two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine have produced 175 million tons of carbon dioxide

World leaders must make plans to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a new report says

This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for bans on fossil fuel ads, but legal challenges would make nationwide restrictions difficult to implement in the U.S.

Scientists say it’s likely that at least one of the next five years will exceed an average increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures

Nations aren't required to report their military climate pollution under the Paris Agreement. Experts say that should change

Floods, wildfires, droughts and earthquakes forced more than 26 million people to leave their homes in 2023

An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a year

Using forests to prop up carbon markets can lead to “perverse effects” on land management, such as cutting out local communities

A new U.N. program highlights the disconnect between climate messaging and the growing possibility of overshooting a key global warming threshold

Scientists say extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and killed at least 100 people in parts of West Africa would only occur every 200 years in the absence of climate change

Compound events in which coastal flooding and heat waves occur at the same time are happening more often as the planet warms

As much as 85 percent of U.S. emissions of sulfuryl fluoride—a rare greenhouse gas and common pesticide used to treat termites—comes from California

A beleaguered solar geoengineering project failed to conduct field tests because of opposition from environmentalists and Indigenous residents

About 20 percent of large wildfires in North America now burn overnight because of drought conditions, straining firefighting resources

A marine heat wave last year undercut efforts to regrow coral reefs off Florida’s coast. Conservationists are worried this year could be problematic, too