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Editor’s note: We highly recommend listening to this story. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory is well-known to weather buffs. Touted as "home of the world’s worst weather," the highest peak ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Envision this scenario: You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items within your home or workspace begin ...

Have you ever wondered what it's like in the eye of a hurricane? It's another day on the job if you ask the aviation specialists commonly known as Hurricane Hunters. Hurricane Hunters fly turboprop ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

When extreme weather strikes, we all pay the price. But earlier this year, a key federal dataset tracking billion-dollar disasters went dark after Trump Administration cuts. Now, nonprofit Climate ...

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Tropical Storm Melissa is barely moving through the Caribbean, and that’s exactly what makes it so dangerous. The longer it lingers, the more rain it dumps and the more likely it is to rapidly ...