Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised ...

The devastation in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene is the result of a combination of factors related to climate change and the area's mountainous terrain.

Western North Carolina provides an important case study of a hurricane season risk that might seem rare but can be ...

As Helene tragically showed, even places semi-shielded from heat and drought can fall prey to intensifying downpours and ...

The North Carolina death toll included one horrific story after another of people who were trapped by floodwaters in their ...

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That’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times, or Lake Tahoe just once. If it was concentrated just on the ...

As climate warms the atmosphere and spurs greater precipitation, mountain communities like Asheville, N.C., face growing ...

That’s an astronomical amount of precipitation,” said Ed Clark, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s ...

At its peak, the monster storm cut off electricity for 6 million customers. As of this morning, 1.6 million are still without ...

Exhausted emergency workers continued to work around-the-clock to clear roads, restore power and cellphone service, and reach people left stranded by Hurricane Helene.

The flood disaster was spurred by multiple waves of excessive rain, the region’s steep terrain and a record-setting flow of ...