By Angela Fritz March 20 A crowd yells encouragement as a woman trapped by a mudslide near Lima, Peru drags herself out of the flow and attempts to make her way back to dry land. (Reuters) The worst flooding in 20 years is scouring the arid landscape of coastal […]
Maddie Stone 2/01/16 Imagine if crop yields across the United States dropped more than 50 percent in a single year. It’s difficult to fathom just how catastrophic this would be—but that’s exactly what’s happening in Ethiopia right now, thanks to a deadly, El Niño-fueled drought. The effects of […]
Unprecedented Pacific Ocean campaign aims to improve forecasts for strong storms. Richard Monastersky 20 January 2016 El Niño has sent heavy rains to California this year. Climate scientists this week began a research blitz to study El Niño, the climate trouble-maker that disrupts weather around much of the globe. […]
