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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A month ago, it seemed unlikely that Vice President Kamala Harris would ever reach a goal she set out to achieve as a presidential hopeful in 2019. But at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia—five-odd years after she dropped out of her first

The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms. Weather forecasters knew days in advance that a major storm was heading for the United Arab Emirates and authorities issued warnings asking citizens

Within a month of rapidly changing temperatures and transition between seasons, Saturday in the District appeared in itself to symbolize meteorological transition, as conditions varied almost hourly, sometimes in surprising ways. Temperatures went up and down and then back up. Skies were cloudy, and then clear. It was calm, then windy, but later it became calm again. All of this seemed to

The barest glance through the news last Thursday painted a sobering picture. A new twist in the protracted battle over the construction of the offshore wind energy facility in Searsport; Maine park rangers warning that patches of “supersaturated sand,” the likes of which startled a beachgoer who sunk at Popham last week, are becoming more common because of accelerated coastal erosion; three