JOSHUA LINN 
Monsoon floods in India’s Assam state have killed 50 people and displaced 700,000 after the Brahmaputra River overflowed, submerging 872 villages across 16 districts.
The Moment On May 20, 2013, Kelsey Bridgewater rushed to Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, as the sirens wailed and the sky drained to an unnatural green. Minutes later, an EF5 tornado erased entire blocks of the town and struck the school directly, killing seven children inside. What causes a tornado to concentrate … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes On Monday, July 20, 2026, the mountain valleys of eastern Afghanistan turned into death traps. Residents of Parun, the capital of Nuristan province, watched walls of water, mud, and debris crash through their streets. By the time the water receded, the city’s mayor was among the missing, 23 people were confirmed … Read more
On Tuesday, July 21, 2026, the waters of Lake Taal rose without wind. The Taal Volcano eruption 2026 had just sent a violent phreatomagmatic blast through Batangas, Philippines, raising a 2,000-foot column of ash and steam. Then came something rarer: the blast pushed a wave across the crater lake, a freshwater tsunami born inside the … Read more
The snow was falling in thick, wet clumps outside Jake’s window in St. Louis. It was February 2025, and the city had just recorded its coldest morning in three years. Jake’s father-in-law set down his coffee mug and gestured toward the yard. “Tell me again about global warming,” he said. The room got quiet. No … Read more
Sara Lindström stood on a frozen lake outside Abisko, Sweden, at 11 p.m. on a February night when the sky broke open. A pale green ribbon unspooled across the horizon. Within minutes, curtains of emerald light were rippling overhead, folding and twisting as if the atmosphere had grown a pulse. She had spent three winters … Read more
July 23, 2026. On Wednesday morning, a fire crew in southern France walked into a burning pine forest near Le Porge. By nightfall, two of them were dead. Six hundred miles away in Sicily, another firefighter fell as flames overran his position. Across three countries and a dozen fire fronts, the Europe wildfires July 2026 … Read more
You probably guessed the Amazon rainforest. Or maybe a Pacific island battered by typhoons. You would be wrong. The wettest place on Earth sits not in a jungle basin or on a tropical atoll. It sits at 1,400 meters above sea level in northeastern India, in a small town where children walk to school under … Read more
Reading time: 8 minutes (2,100 words) On July 15, 2026, a climatologist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information sat down at her terminal and ran the numbers for June. She had seen the preliminary data. She knew what was coming. The confirmation still landed like a punch: June 2026 was the hottest June in … Read more