Environment

By Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel —…

By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — Torrential rainfall and flash flooding slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Thursday, wreaking…

By Lou Robinson, Rosa de Acosta, Rachel Wilson, Annette Choi, Byron Manley, Yukari Schrickel, CNN (CNN) — An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck…

By CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — It’s been an abnormally hot summer in much of the eastern half of the United States with…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with a connection to the…

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — The United States has entered the peak of summer and a heat dome — sealing in all that hot, humid…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has changed course and is moving ahead with work to develop a new database that would…

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — More than two dozen dogs and puppies rescued from the deadly Texas flood zone are ready for forever homes after…

By CNN Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — A sprawling area of storms infused with tropical moisture is dropping heavy rain…

By Luke Snyder, Amanda Musa, Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Millions across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic remain under flash flood watches early…

By Chris Boyette, Michelle Watson, Linda Lam, CNN (CNN) — Just over a week after deadly flash floods swept through central Texas, slow-moving…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — On the night the deadly floodwaters raged down the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service…

By Josh Campbell, CNN The first warning of impending disaster some Texas Hill Country residents received came in the form of rushing water, strange…

By Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight in the last week with…

By Angela Fritz, Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many…

By Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — The peak of summer is approaching for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, but as we prepare for more sunshine and…

By CNN Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Chantal brought heavy, flooding rain and dangerous beach conditions to…

By Mary Gilbert, Holly Yan, CNN Water rescues and evacuations are underway in central Texas Friday morning after months’ worth of torrential rain…