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Friday, April 04, 2025

Strong El Niño is starting to weaken after fueling a hot, stormy year, but it’s still powerful − an atmospheric scientist explains what’s ahead for 2024

In California, El Niño helped fuel a wet 2023 and early 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Wild weather has been roiling North America for the past few months, thanks in part to a strong El Niño that sent temperatures surging in 2023. The climate phenomenon

Heart attacks, cancer, dementia, premature deaths: 4 essential reads on the health effects driving EPA’s new fine particle air pollution standard

Large industrial facilities like this oil refinery outside Houston are major sources of fine particulate air pollution. AP Photo/David J. Phillip

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new standard for protecting the public from fine

Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15M outages raises questions about recovery times

Low-income communities often have a longer wait for electricity to come back after outages. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Electricity is essential to just about everyone – rich and poor, old and young. Yet, when severe storms strike, socioeconomically

Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals?

A heat exchanger and transfer pipes at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md. AP Photo/Cliff Owen

The Biden administration has frozen pending decisions on permit applications to export liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to countries other than

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