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What Happens to Fiction When Our Worst Climate Nightmares Start Coming True?
Movies, books and poetry have made predictions about a future that could be rapidly approaching
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Catastrophic Coastal Floods Could Become Much More Likely
A new study predicts a median 40-fold increase in flood frequency by 2050
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When the Niagara River Crushed a Power Plant
A cascade of rock slides left Schoellkopf Power Station’s three generators in ruins and killed one worker
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Samuel Pepys Was England’s First Blogger
The famed blogger—okay, diarist—told historians so much about 17th-century daily life in England, but he could have told us so much more
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This 1000-Mile Long Storm Showed the Horror of Life in the Dust Bowl
In the American history of extreme weather events, ‘Black Sunday’ sticks out
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 Laid Bare the Divide Between the North and the South
The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes and united by modernity
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How 148 Tornadoes in One Day in 1974 Changed Emergency Preparedness
The “super outbreak” flattened towns and killed and injured thousands, all with little warning and in the space of 24 hours
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How Agent Orange Turned This American Small Town Into a Toxic Waste-Ridden Deathtrap
“Walking into the houses, many of them were like people had just simply stood up, walked out and never come back”
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Malta’s Iconic Azure Window Crumbles Into the Sea
The limestone arch on the island of Gozo was expected to stand several more decades, but a vicious storm Wednesday took out the natural wonder
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This Wooden Running Machine Was Your Fixie’s Great-Great Grandpa
The draisine was invented as a potential replacement for the horse during a shortage
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Despite Dam Danger, California’s Still In a Drought
Look beneath the surface for an unresolved water crisis
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This Town in Iceland Is a Modern Pompeii
Iceland’s ‘Mountain of Fire’ volcano wreaked havoc with an island and the island fought back
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A Hurricane Destroyed This Louisiana Resort Town, Never to Be Inhabited Again
The destruction of Isle Derniere resonates as history’s warning for our era of rising seas
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Sure, Earth Could Get Hit by a Deadly Asteroid—But There’s an Upside
Con: Devastating outer space impacts. Pro: Global unity!
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How Pokémon Go Can Save Lives in a Hurricane
Players could mobilize by donating blood, filling sandbags and evacuating threatened areas
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Scientists Just Discovered a Missing Link Between San Francisco’s Faults
Two of California’s most active fault lines appear to be a 118-mile-long fault instead
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Did a Comet Set Off Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago?
Tiny glass beads found in New Jersey and Bermuda suggest this dramatic warming period began with an impact
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Predicting Chaos: New Sensors Sniff Out Volcanic Eruptions Before They Happen
How volcanologists brave lung-singeing fumes to monitor eruptions with cutting-edge sensors
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How to Save Family Heirlooms from Natural Disasters
It isn’t easy to save cultural heritage from the ravages of nature, but a national task force thinks it’s worth trying
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How Waffle House Uses Twitter to Help Recovery Efforts
FEMA themselves admit that they look to the omnipresent chain to see where the damage is the worst
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