The Great Flood of 2019: A Complete Picture of a Slow-Motion Disaster

Public interest in natural disasters tends to focus on big, discrete weather events like hurricanes. But flooding that unfolds over months across a broad area has a harder time breaking through.

A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises, Study Says

BANGALORE, India - Countries that are home to one-fourth of Earth's population face an increasingly urgent risk: The prospect of running out of water. From India to Iran to Botswana, 17 countries around the world are currently under extremely high water stress, meaning they are using almost all the water they have, the World Resources Institute said in a report published Tuesday.

Skipping school for climate change

Schoolgirl Greta Thunberg is raising awareness of climate issues at the Swedish parliament.

The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers | Katharine Hayhoe | PBS LearningMedia

Meet climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe in these videos from NOVA's "The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers." Katharine studies what climate change means to each of us locally. She tells us about the book, A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Christians that she and her husband, an evangelical Christian pastor, wrote because so much disinformation about it is directed at them.