To forecast Hurricane Isaias, the Nat'l Hurricane Center has bet big on a promising AI forecasting model from Google DeepMind. So far, that bet has been paying off. In this story, the NHC Director discusses the thinking behind the forecast: www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/w...

The super El Niño threatens to cause regional food crises and raise costs of coffee, chocolate and other items for US consumers too. I spoke with food security experts to understand the significance of the threats we're facing: www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/c...

The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era year of 1936, which is widely considered the benchmark for the hottest summer. www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/c...

El Niño is leading to a sudden increase in sea level along the California coast, by up to a foot. This dramatically increases the state's vulnerability to flooding, esp. when winter storms hit. cnn.com/climate/el-n... (Animation shows the Kelvin wave, with the ocean height increase in red.)

The Trump admin cut a grant to fund natural hazards monitoring in Nepal a little over a year before the latest deadly disaster. It might not have detected the devastating glacier collapse/rock slide, but it was developing early warning systems in a perilous region www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/c...

*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...

NEWS: July was the hottest month on record in the US since 1895, @NOAANCEI finds. No state was near or below avg for the month. IOW, out of more than 1500 months, July ranks as number 1. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...

"This summer proves we don’t have to wait until the future for climate change to smack us in the face. From torrid heat waves, to deadly flash floods, to raging wildfires and their associated acrid smoke — the signs are all around us, right now." www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/c...

Breaking: El Niño is officially here, and it could break records. NOAA is giving it a 63% chance of becoming one of the “largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about a new rule that would dramatically change how the federal gov't makes grant funding decisions. The rule is extraordinarily sweeping, and could have huge impacts on health and climate research. W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...

Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...