Danger Season

A woman mounts an American flag to a stack of cinderblocks outside of a destroyed mobile home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina.

Mario Tama/Getty Images

June 1, 2026

It’s Hurricane Season. How Will FEMA Show up This Year?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Martin Vorel

May 28, 2026

Your Anti-Disinformation Safety Chain for Danger Season

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

Greg/Pexels

May 21, 2026

The Trump Administration Threatens NOAA—Again—as Extreme Weather Looms

Carlos Javier Martinez
Senior Scientist

Left: Mike McMillan/USFS, center: Tomas Castelazo/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0, right: NASA

May 13, 2026

Danger Season Is Here Again, with Triple the Danger for 2026

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

Cavan Images/David Hanson/Getty Images

May 8, 2026

Widespread Record US Drought Threatens Rural Livelihoods and Food Affordability

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Aaron Seltzer/Getty Images

May 7, 2026

Documents Show Real Reason Why the White House Wants to Break Up NCAR

Carlos Javier Martinez
Senior Scientist

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

May 6, 2026

Smokey’s Last Stand: What We Lose When President Trump Guts the Forest Service

Julian Reyes
Chief of Staff

Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

April 22, 2026

Investors Move Fight Over Fossil Fuel Dangers From the Boardroom to the Courtroom

Laura Peterson
Corporate Analyst & Advocate

USAF/Senior Airman Damon Kasberg

April 21, 2026

Terrible Team: Super El Niño and Climate Change Could Lead to Record-Breaking Global Temperatures

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

USDA National Agricultural Library

April 7, 2026

Smokey Knows: President Trump’s Forest Service Restructuring Is Bad News

Julian Reyes
Chief of Staff

Firefighter battling 2020 El Dorado Fire, California.

San Bernardino County Fire/Wikimedia Commons

April 6, 2026

Climate Change Is a Significant Driver of More Dangerous Wildfire Seasons

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

Max Whittaker/Getty Images

March 30, 2026

Heated Rivalry: Snowpack Vs. Climate Change. Guess Who Wins.

Amanda Fencl
Director of Climate Science, Climate and Energy

Win McNamee/Getty Images

March 17, 2026

If Confirmed, Will Senator Markwayne Mullin Be DHS’s Next Disaster?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

November 19, 2025

Danger Season 2025: Pain Deferred for President Trump but Not Communities as Resources Shrink

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

An old air conditioning unit in a window of a blue house.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

October 23, 2025

How to Protect Residents of Affordable Housing from Climate-Driven Extreme Heat

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

Daniel M. Young/FEMA

October 15, 2025

What if Disaster Strikes as FEMA Is Debilitated by the Trump Administration?

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

NOAA/NASA GOES Project

October 9, 2025

Hurricanes, Nor’easters, Subtropical Storms! What’s the Difference?

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow

NOAA

August 21, 2025

What We’re Watching: A Hurricane’s Explosive Growth and Western Wildfires Amid Fresh Climate Naysaying

Astrid Caldas
Former Contributer

Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) David Richardson looks flustered as he testifies before a House committee in July 2025.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

August 12, 2025

A Hopeful Sign for FEMA’s Flagship Disaster Preparedness Program

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

This false colour image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 3 August 2025, shows the smoke cloud from the wildfires engulfing skies over Canada and the US. This false colour image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 3 August 2025, shows the smoke cloud from the wildfires engulfing skies over Canada and the US.

Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery/European Union

August 7, 2025

What We’re Watching: Wildfire Smoke and Trump Administration Mirrors

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

David Ryder/Getty Images

July 31, 2025

What We’re Watching: Endangered in Danger Season

Kate Cell
Senior Climate Campaign Manager

A person wipes sweat from their face with a cloth in Manhattan in July 2025, during a heat wave in which 'feels-like' temperatures were above 100 degrees.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

July 30, 2025

Hot Summer 2025 Could Be the Coolest for the Rest of Our Lives: 6 Things to Know

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

A tourist catches her breath after climbing the steps at the Lincoln Memorial during a heatwave.

Nathan Howard/Getty Images

July 24, 2025

What We’re Watching: Climate and Political Whiplash

Shana Udvardy
Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst

Vehicles sit submerged in floodwater as a search and rescue worker looks through debris for any survivors of the flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, in July 2025.

Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

July 22, 2025

“Hydroclimate Whiplash”: How Extreme Rainfall and Drought Are Linked

Marc Alessi
Science Fellow