Extreme Weather

A new study looks at how the increased storminess of a warming planet will make an already dangerous job even more deadly.

• By Alastair Bland

According to a recent study, losing just the top three feet of coral reef could result in $4 billion a year in flood-related damages.

• By Matthew O. Berger

A vicious dust storm ripped through northern India, causing chaos in the streets.

• By Ashley Hackett

Long before low-lying islands are swallowed by sea level rise, wave-related flooding could contaminate their freshwater resources.

• By Kate Wheeling

Caribbean countries must transform their energy systems by creating new, greener sources of power.

• By Masaō Ashtine

A new study finds that, by the end of the century, California's climate is expected to oscillate more frequently between extreme drought and deluge conditions.

• By Kate Wheeling

It's all about which model you look at, European or American.

• By Jeffrey B. Halverson

In order to better understand just how extreme the state's weather has gotten, scientists looked to the ring patterns of 500-year-old oaks.

• By Daniel Ackerman

Forecasters predict the United States still has yet to experience the brunt of its erratic weather.

• By Madeleine Thomas

A monster El Niño could be on its way, and it will likely have a complicated effect on the world's breadbaskets.

• By John Upton

With a ton of land and plenty of weather variability, it will take much longer before a majority of the public feels the effects of extreme weather.

• By John Upton

As part of our week-long series on people who opt out of society, Eva Holland considers the extremes that preppers, or survivalists, are prepared for.

• By Eva Holland