Nearly everyone in the U.S. experienced hotter temperatures driven by human-caused climate change this summer, per a new Climate Central analysis.
By the numbers: 326 million people — that's 97% of the U.S. population — experienced at least one summer day with temperatures notably influenced by human-caused climate change in 2023, per Climate Central, a climate research and communications nonprofit.
An NOAA-operated Gulfstream IV jet flying 50 miles north of Hurricane Lee's eye has a key purpose: To help forecasters determine where the storm is headed.
Why it matters: One of the biggest questions with these storms is knowing where they are headed far in advance. For Lee, it is whether it will directly impact eastern New England and the Canadian Maritimes.
Hurricane Lee grew in size as it remained a major storm on Tuesday after regaining strength to a Category 3 level on Sunday.
Why it matters: Lee missed Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti and is swinging sharply to the right of them. It's expected to tear across open waters to the north, possibly bringing hazardous weather to the Northeast U.S. and Atlantic Canada toward the end of the week, per the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
BP CEO Bernard Looney is stepping down immediately amid a probe into his personal relationships within the company, the energy giant said Tuesday.
Driving the news: BP said Looney, who became CEO in early 2020, had previously disclosed "a small number of historical relationships with colleagues prior to becoming CEO" after allegations received in 2022.
The death toll from a major storm that caused "catastrophic" flooding in northeastern Libya is expected to rapidly rise, with officials saying on Tuesday at least 10,000 people were still missing.
The big picture: Estimates by east Libyan officials put the death toll from Mediterranean Storm Daniel between 2,000 and 5,200 people as of late Tuesday local time.
Amazon just became the latest corporate giant to back direct air capture (DAC) technology.
Driving the news: The company on Tuesday announced plans to buy 250,000 tons of removal and permanent storage services over 10 years from 1PointFive, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum.
Millions of people across the Caribbean, Latin America and the U.S. coastline depend on the science that's gathered from planes that fly through hurricanes.
The big picture: I had a chance this past weekend to fly on a NOAA Hurricane Hunter flight into Hurricane Lee. Here's what I learned.
The U.S. experienced 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the first eight months of 2023 — the largest number since records began.
Driving the news: "With approximately four months still left in the year, 2023 has already surpassed the previous record of 22 events seen in all of 2020," per a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) accompanying its report on the disasters Monday.
