The World Cup’s Biggest Opponent This Summer Might Be Extreme Heat

On a Saturday morning in August 2020, when the temperature was climbing toward 111 degrees, John and Valerie Thomas watched their son Shane finish soccer practice from a shaded area near the field. He looked fine. He was joking with his coaches. Then he didn’t come back. His teammates found him unresponsive near the batting […]

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A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather

If you knew a major storm or fire was heading toward your home, what would you save? Maybe your pet? A box of letters? The blanket that your grandma knitted for you as a baby? A pop-up exhibit led by the Climate Action Campaign and curated by Sam Hartman, an artist and survivor of Hurricane […]

Trump Weakened FEMA, and a Black St. Louis Neighborhood Is Paying the Price

ST. LOUIS — The tapping sound drew Jeffrey Bingham to his front window. Outside, the world was folding in on itself. Trees bent sideways. Power lines snapped. Across the street, a two-story brick house crumbled and disappeared instantly. Then his windows blew and the front door ripped open. He ran for the basement as pressure […]

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An Unusual Heat Wave Strains the World’s Most Populous Country

Every one of the world’s 50 hottest cities was located inside India at the end of April—a global weather-tracking anomaly, according to a major air-quality monitoring platform. As an unusual early-season heat wave gripped the country, average peak temperatures across the most sweltering cities hit around 112 degrees Fahrenheit on April 27, data from the […]

Water-Use Restrictions Follow Snow Drought and Heat Wave in the Western U.S.

Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which supplies water for communities as it slowly melts throughout the spring and summer. Then came the heat wave. As I reported last week, a high-pressure system brought early-season heat to the region, […]

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ICE Strands Detainees on Plane in Middle of Massive Winter Storm

More than 100 immigrants detained by ICE were stuck in a plane on the tarmac at Portsmouth International Airport in New Hampshire for more than 12 hours Monday in the midst of a heavy blizzard.

The plane, which took off from Harlingen, Texas, Sunday night, landed in Pease, New Hampshire, at about 1:00 a.m., but couldn’t get to its terminal due to the weather. Officials at the Portsmouth airport…

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