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

A 17-year-old graduating from Ocean City High School will be 42 in 2050, maybe raising a family, working in a career and possibly paying down a mortgage. If that hypothetical graduate stayed in ...

From coastlines to heartland, new research suggests the very geography of the United States could be dramatically altered by ...

Northeast India has been reeling under the monsoon fury with states of the region struggling with severe floods and landslides triggered by continuous heavy rainfall. Among the NE states, Assam is the ...

Researchers installed sensors inside stormwater drains and cameras above them in three North Carolina communities. They found a startling amount of flooding.

Charleston filmmaker Tyquan Morton imagined how flooding and development will change the city and life for Gullah-Geechee in ...

As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...

Rising seas and flooding are swallowing our homes ... And among all the extreme weather events, the science linking climate change to extreme heat is among the strongest and supported by the ...

In recent times, major disruptions have occurred in 1997–98, when severe drought struck Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and in 2010–11, when rainfall caused widespread flooding ...