The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On July 4, the broken remnants of a powerful tropical storm spun off the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico so heavy with moisture that it seemed to stagger under its load. Then, colliding with another soggy system sliding north off the Pacific, the storm wobbled and its clouds tipped, waterboarding s…

Will extreme weather events become more common? What Americans say in a new poll

Amid Heatwaves, a Growing Concern Rises About Data Centers - Non Profit News

Image credit: Jordan Spraggins on Unsplash Over the past few weeks, states across the country have experienced scorching temperatures. From Texas to Maine, nearly 160 million people were placed under heat alerts as forecasters predicted temperatures up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above seasonal averages. In the Southeast, conditions were so severe that, in late June, the Department of Energy declared a power emergency, allowing Duke Energy Carolina…

Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense

"These are roughly one-in-1,000-year events, [and] would be extremely rare in the absence of human-caused warming,” one climate scientist says.

How likely is Minnesota to have a mega-rainfall event?

Minnesota is 2.5 times more likely to have widespread heavy rainfall today than it did compared to before the year 2000.

How climate change is contributing to flash flood events across the country

While climate change is not solely responsible for causing the recent flash floods across the country, here's how it does influence these events and their impact.