How Those 'Twisters' Tornadoes Came to Look So Real and Terrifying
Since working on the original “Twister” in 1996, visual effects supervisor Ben Snow has earned four Oscar nominations for his…
Extreme weather
Los Angeles to spend $20.8 million on repairs after massive sewage spill
Three years after a massive spill at a Los Angeles wastewater plant sent millions of gallons of sewage into Santa…
Extreme weather hits much of the US this 'season of danger'
The United States is in the middle of the period commonly known as summer, or what some scientists now call…
Paris weather highlights Olympics' vulnerabilities to climate change
PARIS — The thermometer read 95 degrees, but on the beach volleyball court, with all that bright white sand, the…
Another heat record? Nature tells humanity that time is up
To the editor: The rise in the Earth's temperature is relentless and increases more and more, year after year, bringing…
Our Frankenstein's monster: climate change and an ice-free Arctic
To the editor: Coincidentally, your article on the accelerating disappearance of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean appeared in the…
What small flooded houses say about how to solve homelessness in Los Angeles
Ask James Valdez and he'll tell you a heartbreaking story about the last time it rained. This month, she was…