+Weather | June 27, 2011

Sticker Shock: What Extreme Weather Costs the U.S.

By Tara Thean

It’s not hard to imagine the damage weird weather inflicts on our planet. Hurricane Katrina, for example, obliterated coastal communities, wiped out businesses and left hundreds of dead bodies in its wake. Quantifying the cost of such a one-off (we hope) event is pretty easy too: Katrina left us with a bill of $81 billion, [...]

+Weather | January 13, 2011

Weather Watch: The Rains Felt Round the World

By Krista Mahr

Residents of Brisbane, Australia must have woke up Thursday morning with at least some sense of relief. The swollen Brisbane River that runs through the nation’s third largest city did not reach the catastrophic levels as they were predicted to overnight. With at least 25 dead and a dozen still missing, Australia did not face [...]

+Oceans | December 28, 2010

What Australia’s Floods Mean for the Great Barrier Reef

By Krista Mahr

As New York shovels out of the snow and LA digs out of the mud, Australians are facing their own onslaught of extreme weather. The worst floods in half a century have hit the central and southern parts of Queensland, forcing at least 1000 residents to evacuate their homes with warnings that the worst may [...]