The tragedy was compounded by an astounding error of human judgment. At the time, it was taboo for weather scientists to forecast tornadoes in public communication. Experts feared that such a warning ...

A photo essay of Asheville, North Carolina, and its people, in the grip of record-breaking flooding and widespread ...

Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear ...

When I tell people that my 12-year-old son, Michael, is autistic, there are usually two types of responses. First, there’s ...

When a climate scientist’s inbox is flooded with requests to appear on Fox News, it’s a fairly clear sign they’ve done ...

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The walls of my metaphorical house were held together with masking tape. It was then that this tornado of a Midwest princess swept through, shattered the windows, leveled the ceilings, and broke ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The ... The rising air can tilt the spin to vertical, resembling a tornado. These fire whirls can have powerful winds that can spread flaming ...

The next year saw more billion- dollar weather disasters in the U.S. than ever before, as record heat, rainfall, and a historic 1,197 tornadoes tore across the country. A parade of atmospheric ...

Efforts to restore power, water and cell service and to deliver lifesaving resources to people in western North Carolina in ...

But when visitors came and I was asked to say hello, I could only stand, pound my feet, and grit my teeth,” Jones recalled in a 1993 essay for Guideposts magazine ... been killed after at least one ...