As President Trump issues rapid-fire executive orders intended to drastically reduce the federal work force and dismantle several agencies, many federal employees are left wondering what the future holds. At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency with wide-ranging responsibilities that include disentangling whales from fishing nets off Alaska, gathering satellite data on…
For all the trouble it has caused, River Caney is an unassuming creek. The rustling strip of water meanders slowly, less than a foot deep in some parts, along a sandy bank behind a few dozen homes that occupy a narrow hollow in eastern Kentucky. But in 2022, a horrific flood tore through this quiet…
It was 48 degrees at noon on Jan. 20, 2017, when Donald J. Trump was first sworn in as president at the Capitol. This time around, with a forecast high of only 23 degrees, he would have been taking the oath during one of the coldest inaugurations in decades. Facing such frigid conditions, he announced…
While winds and flames continued to ravage Los Angeles, small teams began creeping onto the charred soils left in their wake. Roughly a dozen members of the California Watershed Emergency Response Teams and the United States Forest Service are studying the edges of the Eaton and Palisades fires to determine what patches of land burned…
As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement on Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history. With temperatures rising around the globe and the oceans unusually warm, scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era…
Elon Musk on Thursday inserted himself into the debate over the role climate change plays in wildfires as at least five fires scorched the Los Angeles area, charring entire neighborhoods, killing at least five people and forcing tens of thousands to flee. “Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim,” Mr. Musk…
Several hundred people may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, according to a senior local French official. “I think there will certainly be several hundreds, maybe we will reach a thousand, even several thousands,” prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said on the local…
