Gabrielle Canon

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23 12 2022 | 10:24

Historic heat to extreme chill: why is the US experiencing a cold snap?

Blistering cold events are becoming more stark and pose a threat not only to humans but to entire ecosystems The extreme cold settling over the US this week will be biting, as a blast of arctic air…

05 11 2022 | 11:14

Tourism is sucking Utah dry. Now it faces a choice - growth or survival?

Booming expansion to meet the demands of thousands of visitors every year is squeezing dwindling water supply It was a typically hot summer day in Utah’s Zion national park, where early-afternoon…

11 10 2022 | 14:43

Second world war ‘Ghost Boat’ emerges in California lake, puzzling officials

The drought hit Lake Shasta coughed up a Higgins vehicle and experts are struggling to explain its presence Waning water levels across the west – symptoms of the region’s record drought – have…

22 06 2022 | 11:59

‘Compound extremes’: why a cocktail of natural disasters is battering the US

As world heats up, ‘historic’ weather events will increase and overlap, testing the limits of nation’s resiliency and recovery

10 05 2022 | 07:19

Wildfire smoke in Pacific north-west erasing reductions in emissions – study

The billowing black smoke that has cloaked the US Pacific north-west during wildfire disasters in past years has caused atmospheric carbon monoxide levels to spike, with the contaminants offsetting…

21 02 2022 | 08:34

‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires

Global heating will cause ‘megafires resistant to fire suppression practices’ with 25% of land being burned by 2040 A convergence of dangerous weather conditions, exacerbated by the climate crisis…

21 02 2022 | 07:43

US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says

Human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead, researchers say

26 12 2021 | 15:22

What the numbers tells us about a catastrophic year of wildfires

A historic drought and record-breaking heatwaves combined to spark blazed that burned nearly 7.7m acres this year 2021 proved another disastrous fire year for the American west.

03 11 2021 | 13:34

Weather whiplash: California’s historic downpour interrupts historic drought

The deluge extinguished smoldering fires – but the west may not get the wet winter it desperately needs. Over the span of two days, dramatic scenes of dried landscapes and wildfires that have…

02 11 2020 | 07:35

Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertain The Silverado Trail, a two-lane road that weaves through the bucolic hillsides…