JOSHUA LINN 
On a January afternoon in 2023, Sarah Lindstrom stepped out of her office in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and looked up. Two bright, shimmering spots of light sat on either side of the sun, each glowing with faint bands of color. For a moment, she thought the cold was playing tricks on her eyes. She … Read more
The Winter Night a Maple Tree Told the Story Sarah Cormier heard it first. At 3:47 AM on January 6, 1998, the maple tree in her Montreal front yard split down the middle under the weight of ice. The difference between freezing rain vs sleet had just become personal. That sound echoed across eastern Canada … Read more
Pakistan’s monsoon death toll reached 86 on Friday as relentless rains triggered flash floods and landslides across KP and Punjab provinces. More heavy rain is forecast through Monday.
Oregon wildfires 2026 have burned 406,000+ acres, surpassing all of 2025. The Akawa Butte Fire threatens Sisters as critical fire weather looms this weekend.
On July 4, 2023, a father from Alabama watched his teenage son play in waist-deep water at Panama City Beach. The sky was clear. The waves were modest. Between two sections of breaking surf, a stretch of water looked strangely calm. His son drifted toward it. Three minutes later the boy was 150 yards offshore. … Read more
The Moment Maria checked her phone for the fifth time in ten minutes. The radar app showed a green smear sliding toward her county, a small yellow knot forming at its center. Her daughter’s bus was due in twenty minutes. She had seen this screen a hundred times, glancing at it the way most of … Read more
Catastrophic Texas floods 2026 leave 3 dead across 59 counties. Nueces River sets record, destroys bridge. Tropical Storm Bertha compounds crisis with second landfall near Texas-Louisiana border.
There is a river in the sky above your head right now. It carries more water than the Amazon, but you cannot see it. It controls whether your state is in drought or flood. It is called an atmospheric river, and on December 22, 2010, it had already delivered 75 percent of California’s entire annual … Read more
You are driving west of Phoenix on a July afternoon when the horizon goes wrong. The sky ahead is not blue. It is brown, from the ground to the clouds, and it is moving toward you at highway speed. The radio crackles a dust storm warning. You have maybe three minutes before the world disappears. … Read more