President Trump and Gov. Abbott have downplayed the link between extreme weather and climate change. Scientists say the warming climate is making storms worse.

As a climate scientist who calls Texas home, I can tell you that the Hill Country of Texas is no stranger to flooding.

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like ...

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Rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors of catastrophic flooding that tore through Central Texas on the Fourth of July.

Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they ...

Meteorologists say incredible amounts of moisture in the air fueled a storm that moved slowly over central Texas, creating ...

Both Florida and Texas are adversely affected because they lie on the Gulf of Mexico, which is currently between 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average for the beginning of July, conditions ...

The latest flash floods have been far more deadly than the ones seen in recent decades. That is because of two primary ...

Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...