Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

A flood in 2022 signaled how bad things can get in an urban neighborhood staring down even more sea level rise in the decades ...

Analysis from World Weather Attribution, a climate science group, found that human-caused global warming made the record-breaking downpours in early April about 9% heavier.

How climate change affects rain and floods Date: March 12, 2025 Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study ...

DADU, Pakistan — Before the floods, Mazhar Hussain Birhamni ... “With the Pakistan disaster the poster child of climate impacts, there is a change in the political mood, I think,” said ...

We can expect to see more storms coming from climate change. These events will bring wind, rain, snow and then all the resulting damages — flooding, infrastructure damaged, trees down ...

welcomed the city’s inclusion of climate projections into its stormwater rules as a change that is much more likely to protect the city from flooding than an earlier version of the rule.

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of ...

Climate change intensified the catastrophic floods that swept through several U.S. states at the beginning of April, a new report has found. At least 15 people have died as a result of the flooding, ...

First Street, a research firm that studies the impact of climate change, projects in an analysis released Monday that foreclosures across the U.S. caused by flooding, wind and other weather ...

The historic rain and flooding in parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and other states caused by intense April thunderstorms was likelier and also more intense because of climate change. That’s ...

In a significant shift, the new standard will require the agency to factor in the impact of climate change on future flood risk when it decides where and how it’s safe to build. The new rule ...