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Hurricane Laura rapidly intensified before it made landfall. Abnormally hot water in the Gulf of Mexico helped it gain power.

There hadn't been an eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in nearly 800 years. A different volcano in Iceland erupted in 2010, spewing ash that caused long-lasting trouble for international air travel.

The inspector general for the Transportation Department says U.S. regulators must address oversight failures that led to two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.

Sea level rise will displace millions by 2100 — and the Louisiana bayous, where Colette Pichon Battle lives, may disappear entirely. She describes how we can avert the worst when disaster strikes.

Two people are missing a day after a massive landslide roared through the Alaskan coastal town of Haines amid record rains and wind gusts of up to 65 miles an hour.

San Francisco announced Tuesday it is moving up a notch to the orange tier of the state's risk COVID risk-assessment system.

On Wednesday night and early Thursday, Meteorologists expect a storm to soak the entire Bay Area and much of Northern California with about an inch of rain in most places, with a second storm arriving on Sunday.

The video — which played on the scoreboard during the Fresno Grizzlies' doubleheader on Monday — sandwiched Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's image in between Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro.

In recent drought years, some sunny January days felt like summer. But this year, the opposite was true. The region was soaked with the most May-rain it has received in 21 years. “The weather pattern literally looked like something straight out of January, but it’s May,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA. “This … Continue reading Bay Area Logs its Wettest May This Century →

When Broderick moved from Brooklyn to rural Oregon, she encountered a sense of isolation and impermanence. Her latest album, Invitation, is a portrait of that upheaval.