2021 Events & Disasters < Save Yourself Academy

This article is a list of links to websites, data repositories and news articles related to events & disasters that occurred during the 2021 calendar year. With the sheer number of events & disasters that take place around the US, let alone the world, I’m sure there were some I missed or didn’t hear about but there is plenty that I did capture below in 2,339 articles and data sources.

Where possible I linked to a site or page that keeps track of the data for that category. These are the first links in a category if there is one. The number in (#) indicates how many links to data sources and articles are in each category.

There are 3 sections with the top 3 categories in each listed in terms of number of articles.

Weather Related Events / Disasters (1,196)
1. Climate Change Crisis (384)
2. Wildfires (185)
3. Extreme Temperatures (130)
Human-Caused Events / Disasters (494)
1. Jobs / Unemployment (77)
2. Cybersecurity Breaches/Ransomware Attacks (76)
3. Attacks in Public (54)
Natural Events / Disasters (649)
1. Epidemics / Pandemics (563)
2. Earthquakes (37)
3. Volcanoes (30)

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Breathing wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk of premature birth, study finds	The Guardian	Aug 24
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contaminate indoor air at worrying levels, study finds	The Guardian	Aug 31
PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals Linger in Air of Homes, Offices, and Schools	Gizmodo	Aug 31
Offices, homes, and kindergartens are full of polluted air	Fast Company	Sep 2
Air pollution could knock 9 years off the life of the average Indian resident, study says	CNN	Sep 2
Air pollution takes away billions of years of life expectancy — and many countries aren’t doing enough about it	Grist	Sep 7
See how many people around the world are currently exposed to polluted air – UN Launches real-time pollution exposure calculator	Fast Company	Sep 7
World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland \| Carbon capture and storage (CCS)	The Guardian	Sep 8
Your office air is making you stupider	Fast Company	Sep 14
See California counties affected by Sequoia wildfire smoke	The Sacramento Bee	Sep 25
Dangerous Air: As California Burns, America Breathes Toxic Smoke	KQED	Sep 28
Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law	Ars Technica	Oct 11
A Portable CO2 Monitor Could Ease Your Public Covid Fears	Mens Health	Oct 18
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.	ProPublica	Nov 2
This super-detailed map shows the most toxic air in the county, down to the block	Fast Company	Nov 3
Scientists reveal a complex link between air pollution and depression	Inverse	Nov 8
India’s top court orders ‘work from home’ over pollution in capital	Reuters	Nov 15
How much indoor air pollution do we produce when we take a shower?	The Guardian	Dec 17
Wood burners cause nearly half of urban air pollution cancer risk – study	The Guardian	Dec 17
A Plant That Sterilizes Medical Equipment Spews Cancer-Causing Pollution on Tens of Thousands of Schoolchildren	ProPublica	Dec 27

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Colorado avalanche: Skier dies after being ‘fully buried’	CNN	Dec 26

April 2021

More Lightning in the Arctic Is Bad News for the Planet	WIRED	Apr 7
Insurers Struggle to Forecast Near-Term Risks in a Shifting Climate	Scientific American	Apr 16
World on the verge of climate ‘abyss’, as temperature rise continues: UN chief	United Nations	Apr 19

May 2021

Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear	The Guardian	May 3
NOAA releases new climate normals for the U.S.	The Washington Post	May 4
Climate change: US new normal is hotter than it used to be	USA Today	May 4
See the grim climate change graphs just restored to the EPA website	Mashable	May 13
US environmental agency releases climate report delayed by Trump	BBC News	May 14
This map of the US heating up is horrifying. Show it to every climate denier you know	Fast Company	May 17
Hurricane ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming	WIRED	May 18
The Arctic Was 90 Degrees Today	Gizmodo	May 19
The Gulf Stream is weaker than it has been in 1,000 years. That’s bad news	Mic	May 20
Climate change creates demand for off-the-grid homes	CNBC	May 21

June 2021

California and much of the American West face mega-drought brought on by climate change	Yahoo News	Jun 7
Carbon dioxide levels soar to record high despite COVID-19 pandemic	USA Today	Jun 7
Lake Mead’s Water Supply Has Dropped to the Lowest Level Since the Hoover Dam Was Built	Gizmodo	Jun 8
The Drought In The Western U.S. Is Getting Bad. Climate Change Is Making It Worse	KQED	Jun 9
“Mega-drought” takes dramatic toll on Colorado River system that provides water to 40 million people	CBS News	Jun 9
Landmark Report Links Earth’s 2 Biggest Existential Threats	Gizmodo	Jun 10
Hoover Dam reservoir hits record low, in sign of extreme western U.S. drought	Reuters	Jun 10
Climate Change Forcing National Parks to Choose Between Species	Newsweek	Jun 11
Climate change is impacting retirement. How retirees are adapting	CNBC	Jun 11
Dangerous heatwave grips US south-west as temperatures hit 120F in some areas	The Guardian	Jun 14
Climate change is getting worse after the Covid-19 pandemic	Vox	Jun 15
The amount of heat the Earth traps has doubled since 2005, NASA says	The Washington Post	Jun 16
How climate change is impacting retiree portfolios	CNBC	Jun 16
NASA: Earth Is Absorbing an ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Heat	Gizmodo	Jun 17
Drought, record heat in West bear climate change’s fingerprints	Axios	Jun 18
Why a mighty Antarctic glacier started purging more ice into the sea	Mashable	Jun 22
Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle	Gizmodo	Jun 22
It’s 118 Degrees in Siberia. Great.	Vice	Jun 23
IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points in leaked draft report	The Guardian	Jun 23
Arctic heat roasts Finland and Russia, melts sea ice	Axios	Jun 23
24,000 years on ice weren’t enough to kill these gals	Ars Technica	Jun 23
Climate report offers bleak outlook for Greater Yellowstone	E&E News	Jun 23
Climate change impact: UN report warns of ‘irreversible consequences’	USA Today	June 23
Buildings Are In Hot Spots For Climate-Fueled Disasters	NPR	Jun 24
‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise	The Guardian	Jun 24
Yellowstone: report reveals extent of climate threat to oldest US national park	The Guardian	Jun 25
US national parks plagued by 30,000 abandoned oil wells leaking methane	The Independent	Jun 25
A $26 Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas	WIRED	Jun 26
The tax on climate change	The Hill	Jun 28
Activists Are Buying Land In Vermont To Help People Escape Climate Disaster	Vice	Jun 29
A Space Laser Shows How Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Will Be	WIRED	Jun 29
Maine is divesting from fossil fuels, showing the power of youth activism	SLATE	Jun 29
Plugging abandoned oil and gas wells could help save the environment – and jobs	CBS News	Jun 29
Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price	The Guardian	Jun 30
How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?	The Guardian	Jun 30
Western Canada’s heat wave is ‘unprecedented.’ Scientists say it will become more common with climate change	CBC News	Jun 30
Patreon Is Bankrolling Climate Change Deniers While We All Burn	Vice	Jun 30
Record-breaking West Coast heat wave catches climatologists off guard	NBC News	Jun 30
Reality Check: We need infrastructure to survive the climate crisis	CNN Video	Jun 30
A heatwave in Seattle? Extreme weather is no longer ‘unprecedented’ – it has become the norm	The Guardian	Jun 30
Climate change is ‘fundamentally’ altering Yellowstone’s ecosystem	PBS NewsHour	Jun 30
Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans	The Guardian	Jun 30

July 2021

Oregon’s Buckled Roads and Melted Cables Are Warning Signs	WIRED	Jul 1
Climate change may cause historic heat waves more often than once every 1,000 years, experts say	ABC News	Jul 1
Climate Change Could Destroy America’s Roads	Vice	Jul 1
Tropical Storm Elsa is the latest evidence climate change is happening now	Yahoo News	Jul 1
Yellowstone’s most famous geyser could shut down, with huge ramifications	The Guardian	Jul 2
Brutal heat and fires provide a chilling look at climate change	Axios	Jul 2
The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago	The Guardian	Jul 2
Climate scientists take swipe at Exxon Mobil, industry in leaked report	POLITICO	Jul 2
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models	The Guardian	Jul 2
Heat waves kill people—and climate change is making it much, much worse	National Geographic	Jul 2
Climate Change Is Driving Jarring Changes at Yellowstone National Park	Mother Jones	Jul 3
Antarctica hit record-high temperatures in 2020	Axios	Jul 3
‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west	The Guardian	Jul 4
We Are on Track for a Planet-Wide, Climate-Driven Landscape Makeover	Mother Jones	Jul 4
Climate change is frying the Northern Hemisphere with unprecedented heat, hundreds dead and a town destroyed.	CNN	Jul 4
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)	The Guardian	Jul 5
My new climate reality? Packing a ‘firebag’ so I can flee at the drop of a hat	The Guardian	Jul 6
As climate warms, a rearrangement of world’s plant life looms	Grist	Jul 6
California braces for another heat wave as climate change and drought take their toll	Yahoo News	Jul 6
The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot	The Guardian	Jul 7
Record June temperatures point to more ‘extraordinary’ extremes	BBC News	Jul 7
Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change	Ars Technica	Jul 7
La Nina: What to expect from the return of this climate pattern	USA Today	Jul 8
New York City warned ‘climate change is here’ as storm floods streets and subway	The Guardian	Jul 9
‘It’s not if, but when’: B.C. fires expose Canada’s lack of emergency preparedness, experts say	CBC News	Jul 10
Trouble in Alaska? Massive oil pipeline is threatened by thawing permafrost	NBC News	Jul 11
Thawing Permafrost has Damaged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and Poses an Ongoing Threat	Inside Climate News	Jul 11
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now	The Guardian	Jul 12
California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: “Climate change is real, it’s bad”	LA Times	Jul 12
Manatee deaths in the first half of 2021 are the highest they’ve been in any other year in Florida’s history	CNN	Jul 12
Climate change is fueling mass-casualty heat waves. Here’s why experts say we don’t view them as crises	CNN	Jul 12
The recent climate change disasters might mean no one can go home again.	Slate	Jul 12
American west stuck in cycle of ‘heat, drought and fire’, experts warn	The Guardian	Jul 13
These Scientists Linked June’s Heat Wave to Climate Change in 9 Days. Their Work Could Revolutionize How We Talk About Climate	Time	Jul 13
The Climate-Safe Houses of the Future	Gizmodo	Jul 13
EU unveils sweeping climate change plan	BBC News	Jul 15
What climate scientists are saying about this catastrophic summer.	Slate	Jul 15
This Is Bad: A Swath of the Amazon Is Now Actually Harming the Planet	Vice	Jul 15
‘Climate change has arrived,’ European officials say, as deadly floods engulf entire towns	CNN	Jul 16
Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany	The Guardian	Jul 16
Experts fear Germany’s deadly floods are glimpse into climate future	National Geographic	Jul 16
The link between extreme weather and climate change	CNN Video	Jul 16
Family of Bears Joins Crowd in Lake Tahoe in Example of Climate-Crisis	Business Insider	Jul 16
Deadly floods shook Europe. Is it ready for future climate change-related disasters?	NBC News	Jul 17
Heatwaves, fires and floods: Extreme weather events offer a grim look at a future with climate change	J News	Jul 21
‘Nowhere is safe’: heat shatters vision of Pacific north-west as climate refuge	The Guardian	Jul 22
The Amazon Now Emits More Carbon Than it Absorbs. Can We Ever Reverse That Tipping Point?	Time	Jul 22
Opinion \| Hey, world, are you noticing? Floods! Fires! Could it be time to do something about climate change?	The Washington Post	Jul 22
Why our infrastructure is buckling under climate disasters	Popular Science	Jul 23
Humans are the cause of most wildfires. Climate change will make that worse	The Hill	Jul 24
Amid summer of fire and floods, a moment of truth for climate action	The Washington Post	Jul 24
Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction	The Guardian	Jul 25
Plans of four G20 states are threat to global climate pledge, warn scientists	The Guardian	Jul 25
The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’	The Guardian	Jul 25
Extreme weather is upending lives in the US West	CNN	Jul 28
How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid for humans	The Washington Post	Jul 28
Scientists Warn That the Earth Is Literally Dying	Futurism	Jul 28
The Earth’s Interior Is Sucking Up Huge Amounts of Carbon, Scientists Say	Futurism	Jul 28
Greenland ice melting on Tuesday could cover Florida in 2 inches of water	CNN	Jul 29
It’s not even August and we’ve already used up the Earth’s resources	Fast Company	Jul 29
‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site	The Guardian	Jul 29
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds	The Guardian	Jul 29
Rising sea levels cause house collapse in Argentina	NBC News	Jul 29

August 2021

Earth’s energy imbalance removes almost all doubt from human-made climate change	NBC News	Aug 1
Adapt or die. That is the stark challenge to living in the new world we have made	The Guardian	Aug 1
Climate crisis has cost Colorado billions – now it wants oil firms to pick up the bill	The Guardian	Aug 2
Geologists identify two methane-emitting strips hundreds of miles long in Siberia	The Washington Post	Aug 2
Climate Pledge ads make a case CEOs have ignored for years	Fast Company	Aug 3
Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is bigger-than-average this year	USA Today	Aug 3
Our leaders look climate change in the eyes, and shrug	The Guardian	Aug 4
Deloitte is giving its employees a class in climate change	Fast Company	Aug 4
What happens when millions – or billions – of sea animals die on one day?	The Guardian	Aug 5
Environmental impact of bottled water ‘up to 3,500 times greater than tap water’	The Guardian	Aug 5
Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse	The Guardian	Aug 5
How Putting ‘Jackets’ On Buildings Can Help Fight Climate Change	Vice	Aug 5
Collapse of Atlantic Ocean currents could disrupt weather: study	USA Today	Aug 5
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn \| Greenhouse gas emissions	The Guardian	Aug 6
First Thing: Signs that Gulf Stream is at risk of collapse	The Guardian	Aug 6
The search for the world’s largest methane sources as seen from space	BBC Future	Aug 6
The Gulf Stream’s system of ocean currents is showing signs of instability. Its shutdown could be disastrous.	CNN	Aug 6
New Climate Report Will Detail Grim Future of Hotter, Extreme Weather and Rising Seas	Scientific American	Aug 6
Summer smoke might be the new normal in Colorado	CNN	Aug 6
Warming Trends: Penguins in Trouble, More About the Dead Zone and Does Your Building Hold Climate Secrets?	Inside Climate News	Aug 7
We’re on the brink of catastrophe, warns Tory climate chief	The Guardian	Aug 7
Dangerous indoor toxins are on the rise in homes	Inverse	Aug 7
The world is on the brink of ‘catastrophe,’ leader of next UN climate talks warns	CNN	Aug 8
World’s climate scientists to issue stark warning over global heating threat	The Guardian	Aug 8
From a Raft in the Grand Canyon, the West’s Shifting Water Woes Come Into View	Inside Climate News	Aug 8
IPCC says humans caused “unequivocal” warming. “There’s no going back”: The UN’s dire new climate report, explained	Vox	Aug 9
New IPCC climate report is the clearest guidebook for selecting a future	Ars Technica	Aug 9
IPCC Report: My Climate Tipping Point	The Atlantic	Aug 9
The IPCC report is clear: nothing short of transforming society will avert catastrophe	The Guardian	Aug 9
IPCC ‘Code Red’ Climate Report Shows Why Everything Must Change	Gizmodo	Aug 9
IPCC UN climate report is our ‘final wake-up call,’ say experts	CNBC	Aug 10
UN climate report: 3 big findings you need to know ASAP	Inverse	Aug 10
Hundreds of U.S. cities already adopted climate plans. What happened?	USA Today	Aug 10
The World’s on Fire, Yet Australia Keeps Pumping Out the Gas	Vice	Aug 11
More evidence that humans are causing climate change	Popular Science	Aug 11
Tall buildings are good for the housing crisis but create “urban canyons”	Grist	Aug 11
IPCC climate report 2021: What regional impacts are projected for the US	The Independent	Aug 11
How climate change worsens extreme weather in your area, in one map	Vox	Aug 11
Study of Earth’s Deep Past Reveals Terrifying Global Warming Warning	Vice	Aug 11
Island nations react to devastating U.N. climate change report: “We are on the edge of extinction”	CBS News	Aug 11
Welcome to the ‘plastisphere’: the synthetic ecosystem evolving at sea \| Plastics	The Guardian	Aug 11
If You Want to Tackle Climate Change, Start With Methane	WIRED	Aug 11
There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown	The Guardian	Aug 11
Goodbye to Acapulco, Cancun and Cabo San Lucas: NASA warns that this is how Mexican beaches will sink	Entrepreneur	Aug 12
IPCC report: How UN climate scientists revolutionized extreme weather attribution	Vox	Aug 12
Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report	The Guardian	Aug 12
It’s time to freak out about methane emissions	Vox	Aug 12
The IPCC’s latest climate report is dire. But it also included some prospects for hope	The Guardian	Aug 13
Are you in denial? Because it’s not just anti-vaxxers and climate sceptics	The Guardian	Aug 13
The Ocean Is Losing Oxygen. This Scientist Says More “Dead Zones” Will Soon Follow.	Futurism	Aug 13
Fact check: Yes, a 1912 article linked burning coal to climate change	USA Today	Aug 14
Putin Alarmed By ‘Unprecedented’ Natural Disasters In Russia	International Business Times	Aug 14
At the frontier of the climate crisis, one scientist’s quest to record the ‘invisible world’ of the Arctic \| Arctic	The Guardian	Aug 14
Heat waves, wildfires & drought: How this summer is a ‘preview’ of Earth’s coming climate crisis	NBC News	Aug 15
The Repercussions of a Changing Climate, in 5 Devastating Charts	Inside Climate News	Aug 15
It’s now or never: Scientists warn time of reckoning has come for the planet \| Climate change	The Guardian	Aug 15
Climate change is relentless: Seemingly small shifts have big consequences	The Conversation	Aug 17
Rain Falls on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Summit for First Time Ever	Gizmodo	Aug 19
Climate crisis puts 1 billion children at ‘extremely high risk,’ UNICEF says	CNN	Aug 20
“Doomsday Glacier” Melting Even Faster Due to Earth’s Core	Futurism	Aug 21
Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook	The Guardian	Aug 23
Tennessee flooding is made more common by climate change	CNN	Aug 23
Germany floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates	CNN	Aug 24
This Hauntingly Beautiful Image Shows Greenland’s Massive Melt	Gizmodo	Aug 24
People keep moving to the worst places for climate risk	Fast Company	Aug 24
Watch a Floating, 500 Square Mile Iceberg Nearly Crash Into Antarctica	Futurism	Aug 25
Wrap up cool: Blankets help stave off glacier melt on Swiss ski pistes	Reuters	Aug 27
Climate Change May Turn Even Experienced Outdoorspeople Into Newbies	New Republic	Aug 27
Climate Point: Drought-stuck or drenched? Here’s why.	USA Today	Aug 26
Good news: The most popular material on Earth can store CO2	Fast Company	Aug 27
New climate map shows 12 locations that can save the Earth	Inverse	Aug 27
How national security is being redefined by climate change	Tech Crunch	Aug 28
Now that summer is forever, here are 6 books on climate change to sharpen your intuitions and models	Tech Crunch	Aug 28
Global warming: California wildfires, Hurricane Ida are all connected, Stanford climate expert says	ABC News	Aug 30
Tipping The Icebergs: What Losing The Greenland Ice Sheet Means For The Planet	Wbur	Aug 30
Hurricanes, wildfires, and drought: US finds itself battling climate disasters on several fronts	CNN	Aug 31

September 2021

Extreme weather has killed 2 million people in the last 50 years, says UN \| Euronews	Euronews	Sep 1
Simultaneous Fires And Floods Are A Taste Of The Future	NPR	Sep 2
Here Are The Records Ida Toppled	HuffPost	Sep 2
Climate crisis likely creating extreme winter weather events, says report	The Guardian	Sep 2
North Korea: Kim Jong-un calls for urgent action on climate change	BBC News	Sep 3
‘We are moving into uncharted territory with climate change’ : Climate scientist	Yahoo! Finance	Sep 3
Action on Climate Change Is Urged by Medical Journals in Unprecedented Plea	Wall Street Journal	Sep 6
‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers \| Environment	The Guardian	Sep 6
20 meat and dairy firms emit more greenhouse gas than Germany, Britain or France \| Meat industry	The Guardian	Sep 7
Medical Journals Say Climate, Not COVID-19, Is Top Public Health Threat	NPR	Sep 7
Weather Disasters Have Become 5 Times As Common, Thanks In Part To Climate Change	NPR	Sep 7
Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work	The Guardian	Sep 9
Forget plans to lower emissions by 2050 – this is deadly procrastination	The Guardian	Sep 10
Frequent Disasters Are Making People Anxious About Climate Change	NPR	Sep 11
Young people experiencing ‘widespread’ psychological distress over government handling of looming climate crisis, researchers say	ABC News	Sep 13
Rain fell on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring	The Guardian	Sep 13
More Than Half of Young Adults Think “Humanity Is Doomed,” According to New Poll	Futurism	Sep 15
Climate change: Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement, analysis shows	CNN	Sep 16
Al Gore-backed Climate Trace found we’re undercounting emissions	Fast Company	Sep 16
New 2030 Glasgow pledges fall short of global target, U.N. says, putting the planet on path to warm by 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100	Washington Post	Sep 17
36,000 gigatons of carbon heralded history’s biggest mass extinction	Ars Technica	Sep 17
A Million Kids, Forced Out of Schools — Not Due to COVID But Floods, Fires, Heat	The 74 Million	Sep 17
Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s	Inside Climate News	Sep 17
There’s a Hole in the Ozone Layer Bigger Than Antarctica, Scientists Sigh	Futurism	Sep 18
Climate-Change Evacuations Are Admissions of Failure	The Atlantic	Sep 18
Trees Killed By Climate Change Increase Power Outages	NPR	Sep 21
Insects are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. But there are ways to help them	The Guardian	Sep 21
This book explains actually helpful actions you can take to fight climate change	Fast Company	Sep 21
Climate reporting reaches melting point	BBC News	Sep 21
How sustainable is your toilet paper?	Axios	Sep 21
A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say	Vice	Sep 21
China’s overseas coal power retreat could wipe out $50 bln of investment	Reuters	Sep 22
Giant companies are teaming up to find ways to reuse plastic	Fast Company	Sep 22
5 Natural Disasters That Stunned The World In The Last Month	HuffPost	Sep 22
Hungry and desperate: Climate change fuels a migration crisis in Guatemala	NBC News	Sep 22
How climate change impacts the Rocky Mountains	CBC News	Sep 22
Coastal Erosion Is Shutting Down Infrastructure. It’s Going to Get Worse.	Vice	Sep 22
Newsom signs $15 billion package to fight climate change	Axios	Sep 23
California Moves on Climate Change, but Rejects Aggressive Cuts to Greenhouse Emissions	Kaiser Health News	Sep 23
Sri Lanka to cease building coal-fired plants, aims to be net-zero emitter by 2050	Reuters	Sep 24
South America drought: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia suffer climate change	The Washington Post	Sep 24
Coral Disease Represents Ecological Crisis On Par With 1988 Yellowstone Fires	National Parks Traveler	Sep 26
Triple jeopardy: Children face dark future of climate disasters	NBC News	Sep 27
‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis	The Guardian	Sep 28
The Ground Is Literally Exploding Due to Climate Change in Siberia, and It’s Going to Get Worse	Vice	Sep 28
Greta Thunberg Speaks To Youth Climate Summit Amid New Climate Warnings For Kids	NPR	Sep 28
U.S. declares ivory-billed woodpecker and nearly two dozen other species extinct	The Washington Post	Sep 29
If You’re Under 40 You’re Gonna See Some Horrible Stuff, Scientists Say	Futurism	Sep 29
Children Born Today Are in For a Life Full of Natural Disasters, Unless We Act Now	Science Alert	Sep 29
Shrinking salmon, fewer clams: Climate change devastating seafood industry (Part 2)	NBC News	Sep 30
The Great Lakes see the impact of climate change: “The highs are getting higher and the lows are getting lower”	CBS News	Sep 30

October 2021

From fire to floods, extreme weather keeping students out of classrooms this school year	ABC News	Oct 1
Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill	The Guardian	Oct 1
The climate disasters of summer 2021	CNN	Oct 2
Half a degree makes a big difference in a warming world	France 24	Oct 4
Could Fossil Fuel Companies Ever Be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity?	Gizmodo	Oct 4
Fossil fuel demand shakes off pandemic in blow to climate fight	Reuters	Oct 4
Why Are Americans Still Wearing Cloth Masks?	The Atlantic	Oct 4
Pfizer Covid vaccine protection against infection tumbles to 47%, study confirms	CNBC	Oct 4
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab captures fresh signs of ‘rapidly’ melting glaciers in Greenland	ABC News	Oct 5
How climate models got so accurate they earned a Nobel Prize	National Geographic	Oct 5
Climate-fueled disasters are increasing, FEMA chief warns	Roll Call	Oct 5
If climate change threatens us all, shouldn’t everyone be talking about it? “That’s the only way revolutions ever start”	CBS News	Oct 5
Climate change killing coral reefs as oceans warm, report says	USA Today	Oct 6
Feeling Climate Dread? You’re Not Alone	Wired	Oct 7
The Amazon rainforest is at severe risk from climate change. Aerial footage shows damage in Amazon rainforest	CNN Video	Oct 7
Defense Department warns climate change will increase conflicts over water and food	CNBC	Oct 8
Deforestation Is a Crime: A New Bipartisan bill would treat it that way	The Atlantic	Oct 11
Indigenous climate activists demand Biden end fossil fuel projects	The Washington Post	Oct 11
Scientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate-crisis blind spot	CNN	Oct 11
85 percent of the world population lives in areas affected by climate change, new study shows	The Washington Post	Oct 11
Climate Change Is Melting Russia’s Permanently Frozen Earth	Wall Street Journal	Oct 11
Can we get more people to care about the climate crisis?	Fast Company	Oct 11
Nobel winners made possible predictions of global warming and modern weather forecasting	Colorado Newsline	Oct 12
American bumblebees disappeared from 8 states, face extinction	USA Today	Oct 14
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side	The Guardian	Oct 15
‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands	The Guardian	Oct 15
Fungal disease on the rise in West possibly tied to changing climate patterns: Experts	ABC News	Oct 15
Expansion of wind and solar power too slow to stop climate change	Phsy.org	Oct 18
Floods in Kerala and Uttarakhand are markers of climate change	Quartz India	Oct 18
‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans	The Guardian	Oct 19
Carbon capture: The world is banking on giant carbon-sucking fans to clean our mess. But can they save the planet?	CNN	Oct 20
Cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough	The Conversation	Oct 20
Despite climate change promises, governments plan to ramp up fossil fuel product	NPR	Oct 20
Medical journal Lancet warns climate inaction imperils millions of lives	The Washington Post	Oct 20
Climate Change Threatens to Spread Viruses Through an Unprepared World	Bloomberg	Oct 20
Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make it worse	NPR	Oct 20
Innovative models predict effects of climate change on nor’easters	Phys.org	Oct 20
Climate Change Is Making Us Sicker: Lancet Report	Gizmodo	Oct 20
Wealthy nations on track to extract twice as much fossil fuels as allowed to limit climate change	CBS News	Oct 20
Climate: Fossil fuel use dangerously out of sync with global targets	CNBC	Oct 20
COP26: India says coal will be mainstay in leaked report	BBC News	Oct 21
COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report	BBC News	Oct 21
Dry and warmer-than-average winter expected in parts of U.S. with return of La Niña, NOAA says	CBS News	Oct 22
More disease, more suicide: Study shows human cost of climate change	ABC News	Oct 22
Special Report: Is the Amazon near a tipping point? Three real-world studies are ominous	Reuters	Oct 23
Here’s how climate change will change your life	USA Today	Oct 23
Saudi Arabia pledges net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060	NPR	Oct 23
Greta Thunberg: ‘We need public pressure, not just summits’	BBC News	Oct 24
In Germany, global warming is changing more than just the climate. It’s changing politics, too.	NBC News	Oct 24
Farmers are getting paid to fight climate change by cultivating a new cash crop: carbon	USA Today	Oct 24
Cop26: ‘World conflict and chaos’ could be the result of a summit failure	The Guardian	Oct 24
Emissions gap report: The world is failing to keep its climate promises	CNN	Oct 26
Climate change: UN emissions gap report a ‘thundering wake-up call’	BBC	Oct 26
The world is still falling short of meeting its climate goals. Climate report card shows who’s already flunking.	National Geographic	Oct 26
There’s Still Time to Fix Climate–About 11 Years	Scientific American	Oct 27
Wildfires, deforestation and global heating turn 10 Unesco forests into carbon sources	The Guardian	Oct 27
Planet Earth or 14,000 coal jobs. Guess which Sen. Joe Manchin picked?	USA Today	Oct 28
Biden’s new Build Back Better bill has $555 billion for climate, making it the biggest clean energy bill ever	The Washington Post	Oct 28
‘Apocalypse soon’: reluctant Middle East forced to open eyes to climate crisis	The Guardian	Oct 29
COP26: Arnold Schwarzenegger angered by world leaders’ climate policies	BBC News	Oct 29
Opinion: Climate anxiety is grinding young people’s lives to a halt – ‘I have trouble envisioning the future beyond a year’	CNN	Oct 29
Pope urges ‘radical’ climate response in exclusive BBC message	BBC News	Oct 29
Ahead of COP26, deciding between Mad Max and Waterworld	Inverse	Oct 29
Rich nations to acknowledge climate change threat, take urgent steps -draft communique	Reuters	Oct 29
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction	The Guardian	Oct 30
G-20 summit fails to bridge divides on pandemic and climate change	LA Times	Oct 31
COP26: What G-20 Leaders Agreed on Coal, Methane and Net-Zero	Bloomberg	Oct 31
Climate change could sink Pacific islands. Who will defend them at COP26?	LA Times	Oct 31
Climate change is relentless: Seemingly small shifts have big consequences	Entrepreneur	Oct 31

November 2021

G20 offers little new on climate, leaving uphill task for COP26	Reuters	Nov 1
At COP26, Prince Charles warns world to act on climate change	NBC News	Nov 1
The climate crisis explained in 10 charts	The Guardian	Nov 1
COP26 report card: How the world’s largest emitters are faring on climate goals	ABC News	Nov 1
Marshall Islands pleads with world leaders to stop the 60,000-person nation from drowning	The Washington Post	Nov 1
2 agreements from the COP26 conference pledge major cuts to deforestation and methane emissions, as leaders scramble to address the climate crisis	Business Insider	Nov 2
Beware: Gaia may destroy humans before we destroy the Earth	The Guaridan	Nov 2
US rejoins coalition to achieve 1.5C goal at UN climate talks	The Guardian	Nov 2
U.S. EPA to draft power plant emissions rules despite court ruling	Reuters	Nov 2
Billions committed to conservation and renewables at COP26	Axios	Nov 2
Climate change wildfires’ main cause in U.S. West	Axios	Nov 2
‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’: Greta Thunberg sings at Cop26 – video	The Guardian	Nov 2
Climate change: The world needs to ditch coal to save humanity. It also needs to keep the lights on	CNN	Nov 4
Bill Gates calls for ‘green industrial revolution’ to stop climate change	Today	Nov 4
Greta Thunberg draws thousands to Glasgow for COP26 youth protest	CNN	Nov 5
‘It’s our lives on the line’, young marchers tell UN climate talks	Reuters	Nov 5
6 charts that explain the concept of climate justice	Fast Company	Nov 6
Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe	WIRED	Nov 6
Rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihood of those on a fragile U.S. coast	NPR	Nov 7
How the climate would change if the world warms over 1.5 degrees	NPR	Nov 8
COP26: Fossil fuel firms have more than 500 lobbyists at climate talks, report says	CNN	Nov 8
Climate change ravages national parks, cutting inheritance to our kids	USA Today	Nov 8
Climate pledges built on flawed emissions data, Post investigation finds	The Washington Post	Nov 8
At COP26 in Glasgow, pressure on rich nations to pay for damages	The Washington Post	Nov 8
Tuvalu minister stands knee-deep in the sea to film COP26 speech to show climate change	CNN	Nov 9
COP26: World headed for 2.4C warming despite climate summit – report	BBC News	Nov 9
These maps depict the invisible impacts of climate change	Fast Company	Nov 9
Doctor Diagnoses Patient as Suffering from ‘Climate Change’	The National Interest	Nov 10
Developing countries call for climate change compensation at COP26	NPR	Nov 11
During climate negotiations at COP26, extreme weather was rampant around the world	The Washington Post	Nov 13
The COP26 climate summit is over. Here’s what world leaders agreed to	NPR	Nov 13
U.N. climate agreement clinched after late drama over coal	Reuters	Nov 14
After the failure of Cop26, there’s only one last hope for our survival	The Guardian	Nov 14
Cop26: Pacific delegates condemn ‘monumental failure’ that leaves islands in peril	The Guardian	Nov 14
‘It’s like hunting aliens’: inside the town besieged by armadillos	The Guardian	Nov 15
Tuvalu laments watered down COP26 climate pact	NBC News	Nov 15
California coastline communities warned of rising sea level	Grist	Nov 15
Rising humidity could be linked to increase in suicides, report finds	The Guardian	Nov 15
Greta Thunberg: ‘COP26 even watered down the blah, blah, blah’	BBC News	Nov 15
America’s Infrastructure Struggles With New Weather Forecast	Wall Street Journal	Nov 15
Abbotsford, British Columbia, observed hottest and wettest records in just 140 days	CNN	Nov 16
What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world? How climate change will affect food	The Washington Post	Nov 24
Fall foliage was disrupted by climate change. It might be the new normal.	National Geographic	Nov 25
Where’s winter? An unusually mild weather pattern is swallowing much of the U.S.	The Washington Post	Nov 30

December 2021

The West is suffering climate hell. But there’s still hope	LA Times	Dec 1
It’s December and it hasn’t snowed in Denver yet. That’s never been recorded	CNN	Dec 2
Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest	NBC News	Dec 2
USA TODAY investigation reveals a stunning shift in the way rain falls in America	USA Today	Dec 3
The lower 48 states are lacking in snow but Hawaii has a blizzard warning with 100 mph winds	CNN	Dec 3
‘No easy fix’: polar bear capital of the world turns to electric transporters to save the bears	The Guardian	Dec 3
‘Black box’ will gather climate data for future civilizations	CNN	Dec 7
Florida manatees: Wildlife officials OK ‘unprecedented’ feeding plan	USA Today	Dec 7
Biden signs order for federal government to achieve net-zero by 2050	The Hill	Dec 8
The World’s Coldest Inhabited Place Is Burning Because of ‘Zombie Fires’	Vice	Dec 8
Frosts, heatwaves and wildfires: the climate crisis is hitting the wine industry hard	The Guardian	Dec 9
Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the planet in peril	The Washington Post	Dec 14
The Great Danger of the Tiny Bark Beetle	WIRED	Dec 17
The wealthiest people on the planet are responsible for almost half of carbon emissions	Grist	Dec 17
Tweaks to U.S. Christmas Trees Could Help Them Survive Climate Change	Scientific American	Dec 17
Climate change is destabilizing the ‘doomsday glacier’ – on the brink of collapse	Popular Science	Dec 18
The US Mountain West Could Soon Face Snowless Winters	WIRED	Dec 18
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault	Inside Climate News	Dec 19
Himalayan glaciers are melting at an ‘exceptional rate’	CNET	Dec 20
The crisis unfolding in America’s Christmas tree capital	The Guardian	Dec 22
Rising temperatures, extreme drought and giant wildfires batter Colorado ski industry	NBC News	Dec 25
A year of extreme weather in the American west – in pictures	The Guardian	Dec 26
Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021	BBC News	Dec 27
2021 in climate-fueled disasters: Fires to heat waves to floods to ice	Fast Company	Dec 30
Climate change will worsen in 2022. But it won’t be the end	LA Times	Dec 30
A fight in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to keep old-growth trees to combat climate change	The Washington Post	Dec 30
How climate change intensified Colorado fires	The Washington Post	Dec 31

Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor (unl.edu)

U.S. Drought Monitor

Current & Historical

April 2021

Study: Drought-breaking rains more rare, erratic in US West	Phys.Org	Apr 6
Worsening drought in West stokes fears of severe wildfire season ahead	Axios	Apr 7
California is likely to see another devastating wildfire season due to the megadrought in the Western US	Vox	Apr 15

May 2021

California drought is now statewide, bringing major wildfire concerns	CNN	May 13
Drought tightens grip on West, bringing fears of blackouts, wildfires	Axios	May 21
California’s Drought Is So Bad, Farmers Ripping Up Almond Trees	Gizmodo	May 31

June 2021

Oregon fall firestorms cautionary tale in worsening drought	ABC News	Jun 3
California Drought Could Impact Agriculture, Tourism, Wildlife	Business Insider	Jun 4
Extreme drought worsens in West	CNN	Jun 10
Lake Mead water lowest since Hoover Dam built as shortage continues	USA Today	Jun 10
At California’s Folsom Lake, a stark image of state’s drought disaster	ABC News	Jun 10
Drought is here to stay in the Western U.S. How will states adapt?	NBC News	Jun 11
Mega-drought: 7 Scary Satellite Images That Show How Bad It Is	Gizmodo	Jun 11
Millions of Californians Face Water Shortage Emergency, Severe Drought	People	Jun 11
Extreme drought continues to ravage Utah	CBS News	Jun 11
It’s Going to Be Way Too Hot in the West as Megadrought Worsens	Gizmodo	Jun 14
Utah Town Halts Development Due to Megadrought. It Won’t Be the Last	Gizmodo	Jun 15
Heat wave intensifies across U.S. West amid record drought	CNBC	Jun 16
Lake Mead water shortage: The shocking numbers behind the crisis	CNN	Jun 17
Drought, record heat in West bear climate change’s fingerprints	Axios	Jun 18
The drought in US south-west is the worst in 1,200 years. It might be here to stay	The Guardian	Jun 18
Ca. Hydropower Plant to Shut Down as Heat Wave Drains Reservoir	Gizmodo	Jun 19
The West Coast Could See the Worst Drought in 1,200 Years	Insider	Jun 21
Sacramento drinking water tastes ‘earthy’ because of California drought	CNN	Jun 22
‘Record-Breaking’ Heat Wave to Hit West Coast Amid Megadrought	Gizmodo	Jun 23
The US West Is a Ticking Time Bomb for More Fires and Power Failures	Business Insider	Jun 23
Hungry grasshoppers spurred by US drought threaten rangeland	ABC News	Jun 24
Rattlesnakes everywhere: the odd consequences of California’s drought	The Guardian	Jun 26
Why this Drought Scientist Has Packed Her ‘Runaway Bag’	The Daily Beast	Jun 26
The national security risks of the US drought	The Hill	Jun 26
Snakes on the plains! Rattlesnakes have taken over California due to the record breaking heatwave	Daily Mail Online	Jun 27
Making water in a desert, from sunlight and air	CNN	Jun 30

July 2021

Water is disappearing in the West — and not just during the summer	CNN	Jul 1
Grasshoppers and cattle compete for food in US drought	CNN	Jul 2
Historic drought tears communities apart as farmers, tribes and wildlife refuges face bleak future	CBS News	Jul 2
Mexico water supply buckles on worsening drought, crops at risk	Al Jazeera	Jul 2
‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west	The Guardian	Jul 4
Wildlife, air quality at risk as Great Salt Lake nears low	ABC News	Jul 5
California braces for another heat wave as climate change and drought take their toll	Yahoo News	Jul 6
Drone video of Salton Sea shows California’s drought	NBC News	Jul 7
A Massive Water Recycling Proposal Could Help Ease Drought	WIRED	Jul 7
Utah’s Great Salt Lake is in trouble	Axios	Jul 7
Gov. Newsom asks Californians to cut water use, expands emergency as drought worsens	NBC News	Jul 8
‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of drought	The Guardian	Jul 9
Lake Mead, crucial water source in West, tips toward crisis	LA Times	Jul 11
None of the Old Rules Still Apply When the Driest City in the US Faces a Catastrophic Drought	Mother Jones	Jul 12
Utah’s Great Salt Lake Dropped to a Record Low	Gizmodo	Jul 12
Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water for US west	The Guardian	Jul 13
Severe drought marks California landscape	Reuters	Jul 16
Officials Pull ‘Emergency Lever’ as Lake Powell Plunges to New Low	Gizmodo	Jul 16
Opinion: The ‘wet bulb’ warning	CNN	Jul 17
Dangerous combination of drought and dry lightning to set up in the Northwest US	AccuWeather	Jul 18
Arizona weather: A flash flood watch and exceptional drought: Arizona’s in both at the same time	CNN	Jul 22
Monsoon rains could bust exceptional drought across the Southwest	CNN	Jul 24
Expanding Western drought sets 122-year record: scientists	Fox News	Jul 24
Utah’s Great Salt Lake drops to lowest level ever recorded	ABC News	Jul 24
Drought pushes Great Salt Lake to historic low	NBC News	Jul 26
Lake Powell hits lowest water level on record	CNN	Jul 26
Salt Lake Is Officially at Its Lowest Point in Recorded History	Gizmodo	Jul 27
Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages	WIRED	Jul 28
A Water Expert Answers Questions About the West’s Megadrought	Gizmodo	Jul 28
Homes lose water as wells run dry in drought-ravaged basin	ABC News	Jul 29
‘Megadrought’ threatens Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam	NBC News	Jul 30

August 2021

Is Utah still in a drought? Flash flooding doesn’t solve water problems	Deseret News	Aug 2
California water restrictions amid drought: How bad is it?	LA Times	Aug 4
How the California Megadrought Is Affecting Food Prices	Gizmodo	Aug 6
Drought hits South America river, threatening vast ecosystem	ABC News	Aug 6
California shuts down major hydroelectric plant amid severe drought	CNBC	Aug 6
Arizona’s extreme drought continues	AZ Family	Aug 9
Chile’s record-breaking drought makes climate change ‘very easy’ to see	Reuters	Aug 10
U.S. declares first Western reservoir water shortage, triggering cuts	Reuters	Aug 17
The Colorado River faces an extreme drought. What does that mean for animals?	Vox	Aug 20
The Middle East is running out of water	CNN	Aug 22
40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.	ProPublica	Aug 27
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks	The Guardian	Aug 30

September 2021

South America’s drought-hit Paraná river at 77-year low	BBC News	Sep 1
UN: Droughts Killed Most People in the World’s Worst Disasters	Business Insider	Sep 1
Wildfires are putting water supplies at risk, and corporate America is scared	CNBC	Sep 2
Drought forces North American ranchers to sell off their future	Reuters	Sep 3
Climate crisis could double extreme droughts in Europe, scientists say	The Independent	Sep 7
Opinion: Western water crisis demands a strong federal-state response	MarketWatch	Sep 15
Canadian prairie ranchers struggle with drought conditions	BBC News	Sep 15
Lake Powell: There’s a 1-in-3 chance dam won’t be able to generate hydropower in 2023 due to drought conditions, new study says	CNN	Sep 23
Southwest drought is worst on record, NOAA finds	Axios	Sep 23
The Southwest’s historic drought is about to get worse	CNN	Sep 24
Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery	The Guardian	Sep 27
Drought expected to persist in much of the Western US through 2022 and beyond, according to NOAA report	ABC News	Sep 30
Heavy Rains Struggle To Make A Dent Against A Brutal Summer’s Drought	Forbes	Sep 30

October 2021

After one of the driest years on record, it will take multiple years for some states to recover	CNN	Oct 2
North Dakota drought reveals Abner O’Neil shipwreck in Missouri River	USA Today	Oct 3
World Meteorological Organization says world ill-prepared for “looming water crisis” due to climate change	The Washington Post	Oct 5
Exploring an epic Colorado river during record-breaking drought	National Geographic	Oct 5
UN report warns of global water crisis amid climate change	PBS Newshour	Oct 5
5 billion people will be water insecure by 2050, climate report finds	CBS News	Oct 5
World Changing Ideas: Using hydropanels to produce water. In places where water is hard to access, these panels can grab it from thin air	Fast Company	Oct 6
As drought worsens, California farmers are being paid not to grow crops	LA Times	Oct 10
Rotting Red Sea oil tanker could leave 8m people without water	The Guardian	Oct 11
Michigan tells majority-Black city not to drink tap water amid lead crisis	The Guardian	Oct 12
Lake Tahoe has fallen to an alarmingly low level. Here’s what the impact could be	SF Chronicle	Oct 12
Fact check: Plastic water bottles left in hot cars don’t release dioxins, do leach other chemicals	USA Today	Oct 15
Scientists see a La Niña coming. What does that mean for the dry American south-west?	The Guardian	Oct 18
California records driest year in a century amid drought	LA Times	Oct 18
Harris to highlight drought, climate change in Nevada trip	The Hill	Oct 18
Regulators are using satellites to monitor water use on farms.	NPR	Oct 18
Weather forecast: Some drought relief forecast for areas in the West	CNN	Oct 18
La Niña Could Worsen Southwest Drought This Winter	Gizmodo	Oct 19
One of California’s Wealthiest Counties Could Run Out of Water Next Summer	Bloomberg	Oct 22
Fires, drought weaken 10,000 trees near giant sequoia groves in California	Axios	Oct 23
Weather whiplash: California’s historic downpour interrupts historic drought	The Guardian	Oct 26

November 2021

This City’s Recycled Wastewater Is Too Pure to Actually Drink	Mother Jones	Nov 8
In a disastrous drought, a grim milestone: California could see its first big reservoir run dry	SF Chronicle	Nov 12

December 2021

Some in California have to limit their daily water usage to 55 gallons. Here’s what that means for everyday activities	CBS News	Dec 8
Rising temperatures, extreme drought and giant wildfires batter Colorado ski industry	NBC News	Dec 25
The West’s Unprecedented Water Crisis Is Worsening	The Atlantic	Dec 26
California’s Epic Snowstorms Are Great News	Gizmodo	Dec 28
The nearly 17 feet of snow in California’s Sierra Nevada is crushing records. It’s still not enough	CNN	Dec 29

Beijing enveloped in hazardous sandstorm, second time in two weeks	Reuters	Mar 27
Beijing hit by third sandstorm in five weeks	The Guardian	Apr 15
Utah I-15 crash: 8 people are dead and several more injured after sandstorm leads to multiple crashes	CNN	Jul 26
Watch a Huge Dust Storm Swallow an Entire City	Futurism	Sep 29

February 2021

February 2021 North American cold wave	Wikipedia	Feb
Extreme weather hits USA, Europe	World Meteorological Organization	Feb 19

June 2021

National weather forecast: Record-breaking heat in West this week	Fox News	Jun 1
Excessive heat is America’s No. 1 weather killer	Fox News	Jun 5
Dangerous heatwave grips US south-west as temperatures hit 120F in some areas \| Climate crisis in the American west	The Guardian	Jun 14
Extreme Heat Could Knock Out Texas’ Grid	Gizmodo	Jun 14
‘Rare, dangerous and deadly’ heat wave tightens grip on western US	AccuWeather	Jun 15
Scorching heat on the move into the Plains	AccuWeather	Jun 15
Extreme heat in the West could break 200 records and produce temps up to 127 degrees	NBC News	Jun 15
National weather forecast: Heat wave in West as temperatures will reach into the 110s	Fox News	Jun 15
Record-breaking heat wave envelops West, straining grid and sparking wildfires	Axios	Jun 15
Southwest heat wave intensifies, breaks records and worsens drought	Axios	Jun 16
Heat wave in West, made worse by climate change, continues through the week	CNN	Jun 16
Heat wave intensifies across U.S. West amid record drought	CNBC	Jun 16
Drought, record heat in West bear climate change’s fingerprints	Axios	Jun 18
Death Valley LOW night of 6/18 was 105F/40.6C. Warmest June night ever recorded in North America	Twitter	Jun 18
It’s so hot in the West this week, it is reaching 100 degrees by 8 a.m.	CNN	Jun 18
‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get worse	The Guardian	Jun 19
Heat Wave Unleashes Record-High Temps From California To Great Plains	NPR	Jun 19
The West Coast Could See the Worst Drought in 1,200 Years	Insider	Jun 21
Grand Canyon backpacker dies in extreme heat from possible heat-related causes	ABC News	Jun 22
Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle	Gizmodo	Jun 22
It’s 118 Degrees in Siberia. Great.	Vice	Jun 23
Arctic heat roasts Finland and Russia, melts sea ice	Axios	Jun 23
Pacific Northwest expected to endure oppressive heat this weekend amid the West’s drought misery	CNN	Jun 23
Why 2021’s heat waves are so brutal	The Verge	Jun 23
‘Record-Breaking’ Heat Wave to Hit West Coast Amid Megadrought	Gizmodo	Jun 23
Seattle, Portland gearing up for hottest weather ever recorded	Axios	Jun 24
Pacific Northwest braces for historic heat wave, and experts say climate change could be to blame	ABC News	Jun 25
Extreme heat will be more frequent in the Pacific Northwest. Experts say the region is not prepared	CNN	Jun 26
Dueling heat waves are baking the East and West Coasts. One is going to be worse than the other	CNN	Jun 26
‘Only going to get hotter’: Heat wave blasts Northwest	ABC News	Jun 26
Pacific Northwest experiences blistering temperatures	The Washington Post	Jun 26
A historic heatwave is uprooting Americans: “We’re climate migrants”	CNN Video	Jun 26
Dangerous heat wave to roast Portland Seattle Pacific Northwest	AccuWeather	Jun 27
Northeast set to sizzle under 2nd heat wave of 2021	AccuWeather	Jun 28
The Heat Wave Is Literally Melting Portland’s Infrastructure	Vice	Jun 28
Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Is Literally Melting Infrastructure	Gizmodo	Jun 28
Pacific Northwest heat wave peaks Monday with temperatures 50 degrees above average	Axios	Jun 28
Photos: Record heat wave hits Pacific Northwest, roads buckle	Axios	Jun 28
Record High Heatwave Is Melting Canada’s Infrastructure	LAD Bible	Jun 29
Portland, Ore., soared to 116 degrees — hotter than Dallas, Miami and L.A. have ever been	NBC News	Jun 29
Pacific Northwest Ground Temperatures Hit 145 Degrees	Gizmodo	Jun 29
Alaska Just Had an ‘Ice Quake’ Due to the Extreme Heat Wave	Gizmodo	Jun 29
The Heat Wave in Portland and Seattle Is a Warning – Nowhere is Ready for This Heat	The Atlantic	Jun 29
How did a small town in Canada become one of the hottest places on Earth?	The Guardian	Jun 30
Western Canada’s heat wave is ‘unprecedented.’ Scientists say it will become more common with climate change	CBC News	Jun 30
Record-breaking West Coast heat wave catches climatologists off guard	NBC News	Jun 30
Canada heat wave: More than 230 deaths reported in British Columbia amid historic heat wave	CNN	Jun 30
The West Coast Heat Wave Kills Dozens, Hospitalizes More In Canada And U.S	NPR	Jun 30
A heatwave in Seattle? Extreme weather is no longer ‘unprecedented’ – it has become the norm	The Guardian	Jun 30
Deaths surge in U.S. and Canada from worst heatwave on record	Reuters	Jun 30
More than 60 dead from heat wave in Pacific Northwest as region confronts new future	NBC News	Jun 30
At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave	Axios	Jun 30
Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans	The Guardian	Jun 30

July 2021

Oregon’s Buckled Roads and Melted Cables Are Warning Signs	WIRED	Jul 1
Climate change may cause historic heat waves more often than once every 1,000 years, experts say	ABC News	Jul 1
Brutal heat and fires provide a chilling look at climate change	Axios	Jul 2
June Brought Record Heat To Death Valley National Park	National Parks Traveler	Jul 2
Grocery Stores Couldn’t Handle the Historic Northwest Heat Wave	Gizmodo	Jul 2
Extreme heat is becoming more frequent—and our infrastructure is going	Fast Company	Jul 2
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models	The Guardian	Jul 2
Equilibrium/Sustainability — Grasshoppers are winning the heat wave	The Hill	Jul 2
Town Sets All-Time Heat Record, Then Burns to the Ground	Futurism	Jul 2
Heat waves kill people—and climate change is making it much, much worse	National Geographic	Jul 2
Antarctica hit record-high temperatures in 2020	Axios	Jul 3
High Heat Creates Trail Problems At Mount Rainier National Park	National Parks Traveler	Jul 4
California braces for another heat wave as climate change and drought take their toll	Yahoo News	Jul 6
Record June temperatures point to more ‘extraordinary’ extremes	BBC News	Jul 7
1 Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to Death in Northwest Heat Wave	Gizmodo	Jul 7
Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change	Ars Technica	Jul 7
Oregon’s heat wave death toll reaches 107 in ‘mass casualty’ event	ABC News	Jul 7
California braces for dangerously high temperatures in new heatwave	The Guardian	Jul 7
Five Million People Die Every Year Now Due to Abnormal Temperatures, Study Reports	Vice	Jul 7
The Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Is Now a ‘Mass Casualty’ Event	Gizmodo	Jul 8
Weekend heat expected to hit 30+ million people in West with temps up to 130 degrees	USA Today	Jul 9
Extreme heat forecast this weekend, all-time records in jeopardy	CNN	Jul 10
Death Valley Temperature Reading Ties for the Hottest Ever	Gizmodo	Jul 10
Western heat wave continues after all-time high in Las Vegas	The Washington Post	Jul 11
Health warnings as Death Valley scorches in 54.4C heat	The Guardian	Jul 12
Climate change is fueling mass-casualty heat waves. Here’s why experts say we don’t view them as crises	CNN	Jul 12
Heat wave deaths are driven by isolation, inequality	The Washington Post	Jul 21
It’s so hot in Dubai the government is paying scientists to make it rain	The Washington Post	Jul 21
‘Nowhere is safe’: heat shatters vision of Pacific north-west as climate refuge	The Guardian	Jul 22
Extreme heat triggers mass die-offs and stress for wildlife in the West	National Geographic	Jul 22
Nuclear power’s reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases	Ars Technica	Jul 24
Heat wave bringing triple-digit temperatures from the Pacific to the Gulf Coast this week	CNN	Jul 26
A New Heat Wave Is Baking the U.S., From Montana to Georgia	Gizmodo	Jul 27
California’s power grid operator has issued a statewide alert urging residents to cut back electricity use	CNN	Jul 28
Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages	WIRED	Jul 28
Greenland ice melting on Tuesday could cover Florida in 2 inches of water	CNN	Jul 29
Heat wave sweeps Pacific Northwest, U.S. Southeast	Reuters	Jul 30

August 2021

Baked barnacles, scorched cherries: the disastrous impact of heatwaves on plants and animals	The Guardian	Aug 1
In heat emergency, southern Europe scrambles for resources	ABC News	Aug 2
Ground Temperatures Reach a Blistering 127 Degrees in Turkey	Gizmodo	Aug 3
Permafrost Thaw in Siberia Creates a Ticking ‘Methane Bomb’ of Greenhouse Gases, Scientists Warn	Smithsonian Magazine	Aug 5
Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t	Ars Technica	Aug 6
How extreme fire weather can cool the planet	National Geographic	Aug 6
Summer of extreme weather worries experts	CBS News	Aug 7
Well over 100 million people are under heat alerts as sweltering temperatures grip the nation, including the already hard-hit Northwest	CNN	Aug 10
Heat wave hits Northwest, sending people to cooling centers	ABC News	Aug 11
The Pacific Northwest Is Getting Hit By Another Heat Wave	NPR	Aug 11
Italy may have registered Europe’s hottest temperature on record	BBC News	Aug 12
At 119 degrees, Sicily may have recorded Europe’s highest temperature in modern history	USA Today	Aug 12
Dangerous record heat bakes the US on both coasts	CNN	Aug 13
Thousands left without electricity as storms, heatwave hit southern France	Rfi	Aug 13
July was the hottest month ever recorded, NOAA says	CBS News	Aug 13
Extreme heat threatens outdoor worker earnings, report finds	NBC News	Aug17
Climate change: Study finds ‘very concerning’ 74% increase in deaths associated with extreme heat brought on by the climate crisis	CNN	Aug 19
Ida left more than 1 million without power, possibly for weeks. And now comes the scorching heat	CNN	Aug 31
Hurricane Ida aftermath: Death toll reaches 4; millions without power	USA Today	Aug 31

September 2021

Simultaneous Fires And Floods Are A Taste Of The Future	NPR	Sep 2
Extreme Heat Could Kill Nearly 60,000 Americans Yearly By 2050: Report	HuffPost	Sep 2
There are dire economic effects of extreme heat in the U.S.	Fast Company	Sep 9
California records hottest summer as U.S. West sizzles	LA Times	Sep 9
States across American west see hottest summer on record as climate crisis rages	The Guardian	Sep 10
Hot U.S. summer temperatures match record for extreme 1930s’ Dust Bowl	Mashable	Sep 15
Biden administration to write workplace safety rule tackling heat stress	POLITICO	Sep 20
Biden administration seeks to protect Americans from extreme heat	Reuters	Sep 20

October 2021

Forecasters predict long-lasting warm temperatures in eastern U.S.

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Oct 6

November 2021

It Was 103 Degrees in the United Arab Emirates—In November	Gizmodo	Nov 2
‘Summers are becoming unbearable’: living on the frontline of global heating	The Guardian	Nov 3
A world warmed by 2 degrees is way hotter than it sounds	Mashable	Nov 6

December 2021

Study: Growing risk of overlapping heat waves in Northern Hemisphere	Axios	Dec 17
Springlike warmth to swell over Lower 48 toward Christmas	The Washington Post	Dec 20
Dallas could break record for warmest Christmas Day ever	AccuWeather	Dec 20
West Coast battered by severe storms as parts of U.S. see springlike temperatures	NBC News	Dec 24
Rising temperatures, extreme drought and giant wildfires batter Colorado ski industry	NBC News	Dec 25
January reality check in store for Southeast after record hot December	AccuWeather	Dec 27
Alaska sets record high December temperature of 19.4C (67F)	The Guardian	Dec 28
Alaska ‘Icemageddon’ warning follows heat record	BBC News	Dec 29

FloodList – USA flood news	FloodList	Current
FloodList – World-wide flood news	FloodList	Current

March 2021

2021 Eastern Australia floods	Wikipedia	Mar 18
Torrential spring rains lead to flash flooding around Nashville at end of March 2021	NOAA Climate	Mar 27

April 2021

Piney Point: Florida Gov. DeSantis warns of flood; hundreds evacuated

USA Today

Apr 4

May 2021

Major Flooding, Two Hurricanes and an Ice Storm: Lake Charles Is America’s Most Weather-Battered City	The Weather Channel	May 18
A foot of rain causes flash flood emergency in Louisiana during mid-May 2021	NOAA Climate	May 21

June 2021

Homes, Farmland Flooded as Nearly 20 Inches of Rain Falls Across Parts of Arkansas, Mississippi	The Weather Channel	Jun 11
At Least 4 Dead in Sri Lanka Flooding, Mudslides	The Weather Channel	Jun 4
Claudette is likely to form and make landfall in the US this week, delivering close to a foot of rainfall	CNN	Jun 16
Life-Threatening Flash Flooding Rises In Claudette’s Path	NPR	Jun 20
‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise	The Guardian	Jun 24
Heavy rain, flash flooding across Midwest as thunderstorms hit Gulf Coast	Fox News	Jun 24
A $26 Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas	WIRED	Jun 26
Flooding downpours to keep pounding central US	AccuWeather	Jun 28
ARCADIA LAKE CLOSED: Portions of Arcadia Lake closed ahead of 4th of July weekend due to flooding	ABC News	Jun 28

July 2021

Zion National Park flood: Photos from mudslides, flash flood, cleanup	USA Today	Jul 1
Wild videos show NYC isn’t built for storms like Elsa	Mashable	Jul 8
New York City warned ‘climate change is here’ as storm floods streets and subway	The Guardian	Jul 9
Why we’re going to see a rapid rise in sunny day floods	Popular Science	Jul 12
Scenes of flooding in Germany and Belgium left devastation in its wake	Washington Post	Jul 15
At least 44 dead, dozens missing as floods sweep through western Europe	Reuters	Jul 16
Germany flooding: huge rescue effort in Rhineland-Palatinate as deadly floods also hit Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg	CNN	Jul 16
Floodwaters still rising in western Europe with death toll over 120	Reuters	Jul 16
Flagstaff declares state of emergency as Arizona hit by devastating floods \| Arizona	The Guardian	Jul 16
‘It’s all wrecked’: German town stunned by flood damage \| Germany	The Guardian	Jul 16
Experts fear Germany’s deadly floods are glimpse into climate future	National Geographic	Jul 16
Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany \| Flooding	The Guardian	Jul 16
Storms pound US, causing mudslides, power outages	Fox News	Jul 17
China floods: People unite on social media to help flood victims	BBC News	Jul 22
Arizona weather: A flash flood watch and exceptional drought: Arizona’s in both at the same time	CNN	Jul 22
Monsoon flooding turns deadly in Southwest	AccuWeather	Jul 23
Philippines evacuates thousands as monsoon rains flood Manila, provinces	Reuters	Jul 24
On the Heels of Europe’s Devastating Floods, Scientists Warn More Is Yet to Come	Mother Jones	Jul 24
Caught on camera: Flash flooding in southern Utah	YouTube	Jul 24
Typhoon sweeps into eastern China after flooding chaos	BBC News	Jul 25
Thunderstorms leave roads and tube stations flooded in London \| UK weather	The Guardian	Jul 25
Colorado flood: 3 dead, 1 missing in area burned by wildfire	The Washington Post	Jul 27
Flooded Subways: Transit Systems Face Risks From Extreme Weather	Wall Street Journal	Jul 27
Caught on camera: Flash flooding in southern Utah	YouTube	Jul 29

August 2021

Sunny-Day Flooding Is About to Become More Than a Nuisance	WIRED	Aug 2
Miner dies after flash flooding hits Emery County coal mine	KSL	Aug 2
Is Utah still in a drought? Flash flooding doesn’t solve water problems	Deseret News	Aug 2
Torrential rain leads to flash floods in Utah	NBC News	Aug 3
1-in-100-year floods happening so often, the term may change	ABC News	Aug 5
Heavy Rains Lead To Flash Flooding In Omaha	NPR	Aug 8
Flooding, power outages hit Michigan as storms rake Midwest	ABC News	Aug 12
Erdogan Visits Turkish Flood Victims As Death Toll Hits 38	International Business Times	Aug 13
Turkey flood deaths rise as fresh fires erupt on Greek island of Evia	The Guardian	Aug 13
Floods Hit Turkey as Country Recovers From 100s of Wildfires	Gizmodo	Aug 13
Japan rains: 4 dead, millions under evacuation orders amid mudslides, floods	Axios	Aug 15
Flash Flood in Arizona Leaves 2 Dead	People	Aug 16
FEMA overhauls National Flood Insurance Program for climate change	CNBC	Aug 17
Fred flooding: 2 dead, 17 missing in North Carolina; tornado warnings	USA Today	Aug 19
Remnants of Tropical Storm Spark Tornado Warnings, Flood Roads Near Boston	NBC News	Aug 19
At least 10 people have died and 31 remain missing in severe flooding in Tennessee	CNN	Aug 22
Tennessee flooding after record-breaking rainfall; more than 20 dead	USA Today	Aug 23
Henri stalls over Northeast, drenching region and flooding communities ‘in the blink of an eye’	USA Today	Aug 23
Tennessee flooding is made more common by climate change	CNN	Aug 23
Germany floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates	CNN	Aug 24
‘Very, very bad’: Images show damage, flooding from Hurricane Ida	NBC News	Aug 29

September 2021

18 NYC Flooding Pictures And Videos	BuzzFeed	Sep 1
Climate change-supercharged weather has made New York City a front line	CNN	Sep 2
WATCH: Flooding in New York City, tornadoes in New Jersey after Ida remnants drench area	MarketWatch	Sep 2
Spain hit with severe flooding after storm	BBC News	Sep 2
Here Are The Records Ida Toppled	HuffPost	Sep 2
Ida flooding wreaks havoc in NYC, New Jersey: 46 dead, subway issues	USA Today	Sep 2
The Forecasts Were Accurate – 3 Big Messaging Challenges With The New York City Flood	Forbes	Sep 3
Hurricane Ida drowned 11 New Yorkers in their own homes. The climate crisis is here	The Guardian	Sep 9
Significant flooding threatens the Gulf Coast as tropical threat looms next week	CNN	Sep 11
Floods Have Swamped the US. The Next Health Problem: Mold	WIRED	Sep 20
Burundi floods: Lake Tanganyika’s water levels rise	BBC News	Sep 20

October 2021

Homeowners brace for higher flood insurance rates as FEMA launches changes to national program	CNN	Oct 1
London flooding hits Tube services and roads	BBC News	Oct 5
Greece’s fire-ravaged island now racing to build flood defences	Reuters	Oct 6
Deadly flash floods hits Alabama as U.N. warns of water crisis sparked by climate change	Yahoo	Oct 7
Floods could knock out 25% of all critical infrastructure in the U.S.	Axios	Oct 11
These frightening graphics show how far underwater your city will be	Fast Company	Oct 12
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized	The Guardian	Oct 12
The climate science behind flooding: why is it getting worse? – video explainer	The Guardian	Oct 19
‘Bomb cyclone,’ flooding could hit parts of California in Sunday storm	USA Today	Oct 23
Weather whiplash: A series of storms could ease California drought, but also unleash flood hazards	CNN	Oct 23
“Atmospheric river” to see Northern California flood after drought	Axios	Oct 25
Photos: West Coast faces a barrage of weather hazards	CNN	Oct 25
How climate change is making atmospheric rivers more damaging	Fast Company	Oct 25
Flooding bombards New York, other states; bomb cyclone possible	USA Today	Oct 26
East Coast storm bringing major coastal flooding to Mid-Atlantic	The Washington Post	Oct 29

November 2021

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting so fast, it’s raising sea levels and creating global flood risk – global seal level may rise 9 inches	USA Today	Nov 3
A major coastal flood event, similar to a surge from a hurricane, is underway in Charleston, South Carolina	CNN	Nov 4
Tide reaches major flood level in South Carolina, with more expected over the weekend	CNN	Nov 5
Rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihood of those on a fragile U.S. coast	NPR	Nov 7
Tuvalu minister stands knee-deep in the sea to film COP26 speech to show climate change	CNN	Nov 9
Record rainfall prompts evacuations in British Columbia and Pacific north-west	The Guardian	Nov 15
Military deployed as British Columbia grapples with devastating floods	The Guardian	Nov 18
Canada floods: 18,000 people still stranded in ‘terrible, terrible disaster’	The Guardian	Nov 18

December 2021

Malaysia: Death toll rises after massive floods

BBC News

Dec 21

April 2021

2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season Expected to Be More Active Than Norma	The Weather Channel	Apr 13
Hurricane season is officially more intense	Popular Science	Apr 23

May 2021

Hurricane ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming	WIRED	May 18
Cyclone Tauktae: Seventy-seven missing at sea in the wake of storm	BBC News	May 19
2020 was a record-breaking hurricane season. Here’s what NOAA says to expect in 2021.	ABC News	May 20
Biden doubles FEMA funding to prepare for extreme weather events, citing climate change	The Washington Post	May 24
Disaster fatigue continues with the start of hurricane season	Marketplace	May 31

Jun 2021

Tropical Storm Cristobal Is Officially Here	CBS News	Jun 2
Tropical storm off Carolinas poses threat to eastern US	Fox News	Jun 15
Claudette is likely to form and make landfall in the US this week, delivering close to a foot of rainfall	CNN	Jun 16
Tropical Storm Claudette ravages Gulf Coast, tracking northeast	Fox News	Jun 20
Tropical Storm Claudette Hits Gulf Coast	AccuWeather	Jun 21
Where is Tropical Storm Claudette Headed?	AccuWeather	Jun 21

July 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa is the latest evidence climate change is happening now	Yahoo News	Jul 1
Hurricane Elsa the Is First Hurricane of 2021, On Track for US	Gizmodo	Jul 2
Tropical Storm Elsa slams Georgia and South Carolina; at least 1 dead	USA Today	Jul 7
At least 1 dead, multiple injured as storm whips north Florida, pushing toward Georgia and the Carolinas	CNN	Jul 8
Tropical storm pounds East Coast after killing 1 in Florida	ABC News	Jul 8
Tropical Storm Elsa: Millions under tropical storm warnings and flash flood watches as Elsa moves up the East Coast	CNN	Jul 9
Felicia strengthens to hurricane in the eastern North Pacific	Fox News	Jul 15
Hurricane Felicia strengthens into category 4 storm over eastern North Pacific	Fox News	Jul 17
Felicia Becomes a Major Hurricane in East Pacific as Tropical Atlantic Stays Quiet	AccuWeather	Jul 18
Typhoon sweeps into eastern China after flooding chaos	BBC News	Jul 25

August 2021

Fred path: Storm forecast to arrive in Florida panhandle Monday	USA Today	Aug 11
Tropical Storm Grace forms in the Atlantic as Fred temporarily weakens	CNN	Aug 14
Tropical storm Grace soaks Haiti, complicating rescue efforts from earthquake	NBC News	Aug 16
Tropical Storm Grace’s heavy rains pour misery on Haiti earthquake survivors	The Guardian	Aug 17
Hurricane Grace Soaks Mexico’s Caribbean Coast After Haiti, Jamaica	Bloomberg	Aug 18
The Northeastern US could see impacts from Henri	CNN	Aug 18
Tropical storm Henri is forecast to make a rare landfall as a hurricane in New York or southern New England	CNN	Aug 20
Why New England rarely sees hurricane threats like Henri	National Geographic	Aug 20
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease	Time	Aug 20
Hurricane Henri: NYC, Long Island under state of emergency	USA Today	Aug 21
Hurricane Grace batters Tecolutla, other towns on Mexico’s east coast	NBC News	Aug 21
How the climate crisis is changing hurricanes	CNN	Aug 21
Tropical Storm Henri: Crews work to restore power for tens of thousands in the Northeast	CNN	Aug 23
Henri stalls over Northeast, drenching region and flooding communities ‘in the blink of an eye’	USA Today	Aug 23
Hurricane Ida 2021 path: New Orleans evacuations, could be Category 4	USA Today	Aug 27
‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Ida knocks out more oil than Katrina	Reuters	Aug 27
Ida strikes Gulf Coast as dangerous Category 4 hurricane	AccuWeather	Aug 28
We’re Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness	The Atlantic	Aug 29
‘Very, very bad’: Images show damage, flooding from Hurricane Ida	NBC News	Aug 29
Ida delivers “catastrophic” damage in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm	NBC News	Aug 30
Deadly tropical storm Nora hits Mexico’s Pacific coast	NBC News	Aug 31

September 2021

How climate change impacted Hurricane Ida, according to scientists	Mashable	Sep 1
Here Are The Records Ida Toppled	HuffPost	Sep 2
Hurricane Ida Is a Turning Point for Climate Migration	The Atlantic	Sep 3
Storm Ida aftermath: ‘I can’t even count my losses from the flooding right now’	BBC News	Sep 3
Hurricane Ida Leaves Trail of Damage From South to Northeast	Wall Street Journal	Sep 3
In pictures: Louisiana’s Grand Isle barrier island uninhabitable after Hurricane Ida’s wrath	Reuters	Sep 7
Tropical Storm Mindy makes landfall in Florida Panhandle	USA Today	Sep 8
Mindy drenches Southeast as Larry sideswipes Bermuda	The Washington Post	Sep 9
Hurricane Olaf makes landfall in Mexico near tourist area	NBC News	Sep 9
Hurricane Olaf bearing down on resort region in Mexico	The Independent	Sep 9
Tropical Depression Mindy dropping heavy rain in parts of Georgia and South Carolina	CNN	Sep 9
Category 5 Super Typhoon Chanthu aims for landfall in Taiwan	Axios	Sep 10
Hurricane Larry will produce snow measured in feet	CNN	Sep 10
Hurricane Larry Will Bring Snow to Greenland	Gizmodo	Sep 10
Parts of the Texas Gulf Coast may see 20 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Nicholas	NPR	Sep 13
Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall in Texas, lashing coast	The Washington Post	Sep 14
Cyclones could soon devastate Europe, warns ‘storm chaser’ climate scientist	EuroNews	Sep 20
Climate change is making hurricanes worse. Here’s how	AccuWeather	Sep 23
Hurricane Sam intensifies to Category 4 status with 150 mph winds	USA Today	Sep 26
Typhoon Mindulle Pacific Ocean Japan Ryukyu Islands	AccuWeather	Sep 28
We’re about to run out of Atlantic hurricane names—again	Ars Technica	Sep 28

October 2021

One Month After Ida Ravaged Northeast and South, Residents Are Still Struggling: ‘The Worst’	People	Oct 1
Oman urges residents to evacuate as tropical storm Shaheen strengthens	Reuters	Oct 2
Hurricane Sam rides off into the sunset after long, powerful run	AccuWeather	Oct 4
A month after Ida’s landfall, Louisianians decry ‘Third World’ conditions	Reuters	Oct 6
Tropical Storm Pamela forecast to slam Mexico as major hurricane	USA Today	Oct 11
Cyclone Kompasu strikes Philippines, kills 9	Reuters	Oct 12
Storm Pamela wanes, will re-strengthen before hitting Mexico’s bread basket -NHC	Reuters	Oct 13
Tropical Storm Rick strengthens into a hurricane	The Hill	Oct 23
Hurricane Rick unleashes rain on slow path towards Mexican coast near Acapulco	Reuters	Oct 24
Hurricane Rick has made landfall in southern Mexico	AccuWeather	Oct 25

November 2021 (None)

December 2021

Super typhoon Rai: Philippine tourist island Siargao among areas hit	BBC News	Dec 17
Typhoon Rai: rescue efforts continue after strongest storm to hit Philippines this year	The Guardian	Dec 18
Philippines Super Typhoon Rai death toll surges	BBC News	Dec 20

California’s famed Highway 1 collapsed last week	The Guardian	Feb 6
Chamoli disaster: ‘It hit the valley floor like 15 atomic bombs’	BBC News	Jun 13
Terrifying video shows landslide sweep through Japanese city	CNN Video	Jul 3
Mudslide sweeps through city	CNN Video	Jul 3
California earthquake causes rock slide along highway	NBC News	Jul 8
Motorists Spent The Night In A Highway Tunnel After Mudslide on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon	CPR News	Jul 30
Mudslide forces closure of Big Cottonwood Canyon	KUTV	Aug 1
Interstate 70 closure extended due to ‘extreme damage’ from latest mudslides; Amtrak route shut down	Post Independent	Aug 2
Japan rains: 4 dead, millions under evacuation orders amid mudslides, floods	Axios	Aug 15
Multiple parts of Blue Ridge Parkway impassable in NC due to mudslides, storm debris	Charlotte Observer	Aug 20
A Climate Change-Induced Disaster in Denali National Park	Time	Sep 7
Mudslide on scenic Colorado highway tests limits of aging infrastructure in era of climate change	NBC News	Sep 12
Photos: West Coast faces a barrage of weather hazards	CNN	Oct 25
Record rainfall prompts evacuations in British Columbia and Pacific north-west	The Guardian	Nov 15

PowerOutage.us	Power Outage	Current
February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm	Wikipedia	Feb 17
Power outage leaves Texans desperate for heat and safety	The Texas Tribune	Feb 16
Texas electric grid was at the mercy of cold weather	The Washington Post	Feb 16
Texans running out of food during power outage, weather crisis	The Texas Tribune	Feb 17
Fire at San Juan Substation Causes Massive Blackout in Puerto Rico	The Weather Channel	Jun 11
Extreme Heat Could Knock Out Texas’ Grid	Gizmodo	Jun 14
‘Unplanned’ outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures	NBC News	Jun 14
Sweltering Texans urged to reduce cooking and cleaning to ease grid strain	The Guardian	Jun 16
West Risks Blackouts as Drought Reduces Hydroelectric Power	Wall Street Journal	Jun 18
Ca. Hydropower Plant to Shut Down as Heat Wave Drains Reservoir	Gizmodo	Jun 19
Thunderstorms batter Chicago area, leave thousands in the dark	Reuters	Jun 21
The US West Is a Ticking Time Bomb for More Fires and Power Failures	Business Insider	Jun 23
Four people are dead and one injured after a hot-air balloon crashes in New Mexico	CNN	Jun 26
DC tornado warning: Thousands left without power, flights diverted	USA Today	Jul 2
Phoenix area hit by monsoon-like storm; thousands left without power	Fox News	Jul 10
Omaha-area storm downs trees, flips plane, leaves thousands without power	Fox News	Jul 10
Raging Oregon Wildfire Threatens California’s Power Grid	Gizmodo	Jul 10
Storms pound US, causing mudslides, power outages	Fox News	Jul 17
Nuclear power’s reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases	Ars Technica	Jul 24
At least 125,000 customers left without electricity after suspected tornadoes and severe storms	CNN	Jul 25
Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages	WIRED	Jul 28
California shuts down major hydroelectric plant amid severe drought	CNBC	Aug 6
The Texas Power Grid Is Hanging on by Its Fingernails	Gizmodo	Aug 11
Flooding, power outages hit Michigan as storms rake Midwest	ABC News	Aug 12
Over 1 million without power in wake of severe storms in Midwest	ABC News	Aug 12
Thousands left without electricity as storms, heatwave hit southern France	Rfi	Aug13
Tornado Causes Damage in Thompson; Roads Flooded; Power Outages	NBC News	Aug 19
Tropical Storm Henri: Crews work to restore power for tens of thousands in the Northeast	CNN	Aug 23
Ida weakens after knocking out power to New Orleans	NBC News	Aug 30
Over one million people without power in New Orleans after Hurricane Ida	NBC News	Aug 30
Power outage? Here’s what to do with refrigerated, frozen foods	USA Today	Aug 30
Hundreds Of Thousands Are Still Without Power In Louisiana. Some Could Be For Weeks	NPR	Sep 1
80% of the Gulf’s oil and gas production is still offline after Hurricane Ida	Axios	Sep 2
New Orleans begins evacuating residents amid outages	The Washington Post	Sep 3
More than 700,000 people still in the dark a week after Hurricane Ida, Louisiana governor says	CNN	Sep 5
Biden officials trumpet how solar can provide half the nation’s electricity by 2050	The Washington Post	Sep 8
Trees Killed By Climate Change Increase Power Outages	NPR	Sep 21
Lake Powell: There’s a 1-in-3 chance dam won’t be able to generate hydropower in 2023 due to drought conditions, new study says	CNN	Sep 23
Hurricane Ida power grid failure forces a reckoning over Entergy’s monopoly in the South	NBC News	Sep 24
Preventing the next Texas power crisis	Axios	Sep 24
China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook	Reuters	Sep 27
The Grid Isn’t Ready for the Renewable Revolution	Wired	Oct 6
Lebanon hit by electricity outage expected to last several days	The Guardian	Oct 6
Energy price crisis cuts across sectors and boundaries	The Washington Post	Oct 9
PG&E’s preemptive wildfire-prevention power shutdowns impact thousands in California	ABC News	Oct 11
How to get to 100% adoption for electrification	Fast Company	Oct 12
Longer, more frequent outages afflict the U.S. power grid as states fail to prepare for climate change	The Washington Post	Oct 24
Nor’easter power outages: Northeast sees hurricane-force winds	USA Today	Oct 27
Nor’easter’s strong winds knock out power for nearly half a million residents	CBS News	Oct 28
Climate change: The world needs to ditch coal to save humanity. It also needs to keep the lights on	CNN	Nov 4
Texas hasn’t done enough to prevent another winter blackout, experts say	The Texas Tribune	Nov 29
State of emergency declared in Hawaii as storm leaves hundreds without power	NBC News	Dec 7
US weather: More than 400K have no power across central states after storms deliver record spate of hurricane-force gusts	CNN	Dec 16

Storm Prediction Center Annual Report Summary – 2021	Storm Prediction Center	Current
April 10 Severe Event – Historic Gulf Coast Hail	National Weather Service	Apr 10
Texas and Oklahoma: Softball-sized hailstones fall as thunderstorms hit both states	CNN	Apr 29
26 Incredible Gorilla Hail Pictures From Texas	Buzzfeed	Apr 29
’Gargantuan’ Texas hailstone may claim new state record	The Washington Post	May 1
100 million in the path of severe weather and possible tornadoes	USA Today	May 4
Thunderstorms, flooding to soak central US again as ‘critical’ fire conditions threaten West	Fox News	May 15
Severe weather slams the Southwest	CBS News	May 16
Severe Weather Threat, Tornado Risk for Central US Continues	AccuWeather	May 25
Thunderstorms batter Chicago area, leave thousands in the dark	Reuters	Jun 21
He a vy rain, flash flooding across Midwest as thunderstorms hit Gulf Coast	Fox News	Jun 24
Flooding downpours to keep pounding central US	AccuWeather	Jun 28
Monsoon to ramp up across the southwestern United States	AccuWeather	Jun 29
Phoenix area hit by monsoon-like storm; thousands left without power	Fox News	Jul 10
Omaha-area storm downs trees, flips plane, leaves thousands without power	Fox News	Jul 10
Northeast to see heavy rain; excessive heat bakes western US	Fox News	Jul 12
India lightning strike kills 11 people and injures more	USA Today	Jul 12
Moisture-rich thunderstorms keep flood threat high in Northeast	AccuWeather	Jul 14
Southwest under flash flood warnings as Midwest faces large hail and tornadoes	Fox News	Jul 14
Scientists stunned by rare Arctic lightning storms north of Alaska	Reuters	Jul 17
Dangerous combination of drought and dry lightning to set up in the Northwest US	AccuWeather	Jul 18
At least 125,000 customers left without electricity after suspected tornadoes and severe storms	CNN	Jul 25
As Dixie fire doubles, monsoon weather bring new threats	LA Times	Jul 27
Rain to drench West, providing relief to drought-stricken states	Fox News	Aug 2
Henri stalls over Northeast, drenching region and flooding communities ‘in the blink of an eye’	USA Today	Aug 23
Home insurance can protect against extreme weather, but about half of Americans don’t understand it	USA Today	Aug 27
Here Are The Records Ida Toppled	HuffPost	Sep 2
21st-Century Storms Are Overwhelming 20th-Century Cities	WIRED	Sep 3
Seventeen patients die after hospital in Mexico floods amid torrential rain	The Guardian	Sep 7
Washington and Baltimore have seen the nation’s most severe thunderstorm warnings in 2021	The Washington Post	Sep 24
Climate change: More than two feet of rain fell in Italy in half a day, something not seen in Europe before	CNN	Oct 7
What Is a Gustnado? National Weather Service Says That Was the Ominous Cloud Over New York’s Orange County	NBC	Oct 18
Grapefruit-sized hail hits Australia’s east coast	Reuters	Oct 20
Level 5 atmospheric river to unleash flooding across drought-stricken California	CNN	Oct 21
Strong storms are heading toward drought-parched California	NPR	Oct 21
300-year-old tree rings confirm recent uptick in hurricane-driven rainfall	Ars Technica	Oct 23
Midwest weather: Severe storms in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa will move to Midwest, then Mid-Atlantic	CNN	Oct 23
Up to 50m people could be affected by back-to-back bomb cyclones	Daily Mail	Oct 23
Powerful storm hits California amid warnings of ‘potentially historic rain’	The Guardian	Oct 24
Photos: West Coast faces a barrage of weather hazards	CNN	Oct 25
West Coast slammed by record-breaking bomb cyclone	AccuWeather	Oct 25
Record storm slams West Coast as tens of millions on East Coast brace for nor’easter	NBC News	Oct 25
Weather news: The National Weather Service warns of rapidly developing East Coast storm	CNN	Oct 25
30 million at risk for multi-day severe weather outbreak	AccuWeather	Oct 26
Weather whiplash: California’s historic downpour interrupts historic drought	The Guardian	Oct 26
Record rainfall prompts evacuations in British Columbia and Pacific north-west	The Guardian	Nov 15
Pacific Northwest Faces 2nd Damaging Atmospheric River in a Week	Gizmodo	Nov 24
USA TODAY investigation reveals a stunning shift in the way rain falls in America	USA Today	Dec 3
Hawaii travel: What visitors should know during the state of emergency	USA Today	Dec 7
Central US severe weather: Powerful storm rolls across central US, unleashing at least 19 tornadoes	CNN	Dec 11
Search continues for victims of tornadoes that killed dozens in central U.S.	CBS News	Dec 12
Heavy rain, feet of snow forecast for California	CNN	Dec 14
Intense storm spawns tornadoes, including first ever observed in Minnesota during December	CNN	Dec 16
December Iowa storms and tornadoes officially declared a derecho	KCCI Des Moines	Dec 17
Two dead in submerged car as heavy rain drenches California	NBC News	Dec 24

February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm	Wikipedia	Feb 17
Hurricane Larry Will Bring Snow to Greenland	Gizmodo	Sep 10
How to survive in a blizzard	CNN Travel	Oct 31
Snowstorm to create travel headaches in parts of US, Canada	AccuWeather	Nov 9
Winter storm: Blizzard warnings issued as Midwest snow storm begins to strengthen	CNN	Nov 12
Hawaii is under a blizzard warning, snow and heavy winds expected	USA Today	Dec 3
The lower 48 states are lacking in snow but Hawaii has a blizzard warning with 100 mph winds	CNN	Dec 3
Blizzard Leaves Hawaii Mountains Blanketed in Snow	Gizmodo	Dec 7
Heavy rain and snow pummel California after a season of historic wildfires	The Guardian	Dec 14
California storm has potential for 8 feet of snow with rain and wind	USA Today	Dec 14
Travel weather: Up to 10 feet of snow for some and an unlikely white Christmas for others	CNN	Dec 22
Snow reported in Seattle, California as parts of U.S. get unlikely white Christmas	NBC News	Dec 25
Western US to close 2021 with record cold and feet of snow	Accuweather	Dec 26
Snow expected to continue as winter storm warnings extend from Seattle to San Diego	NBC News	Dec 26
Omicron, winter weather cause travel chaos as thousands of flights canceled	NBC News	Dec 27
Heavy snow causes travel chaos in Japan	NBC News	Dec 27
Lake Tahoe blows past 50-year December snowfall record set in 1970 with more than 16 feet of snow	USA Today	Dec 28
Winter storms bring snow, low temperatures to Western states	NPR	Dec 28
California’s Epic Snowstorms Are Great News	Gizmodo	Dec 28
The nearly 17 feet of snow in California’s Sierra Nevada is crushing records. It’s still not enough	CNN	Dec 29

Scientists project an active tornado season in 2021. Here’s why Florida’s in the clear	Tampa Bay Times	Mar 12
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-wednesday-outbreak-arkansas-mississippi-alabama-tennessee/	CBS News	Mar 16
March 17th Tornado Outbreak	National Weather Service	Mar 17
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-outbreak-southeast-thursday-arkansas-mississippi-tennessee-alabama/	CBS News	Mar 25
March 25th Tornado Outbreak	National Weather Service	Mar 25
Alabama tornado results in multiple reported deaths	CNN	Mar 26
1 dead after tornado touches down in Atlanta area and severe weather barrels through the Southeast US	CNN	May 3
Severe storms and tornadoes threaten 22 million Americans	CBS News	May 27
May Snaps Long-Standing US Streak for EF3 Tornadoes	AccuWeather	Jun 11
Tornado damages 50 homes in small Alabama town	The Guardian	Jun 19
Tornado confirmed in Woodridge as severe storms leave significant damage across southwest suburbs	WGN TV	Jun 21
Thunderstorms batter Chicago area, leave thousands in the dark	Reuters	Jun 21
DC tornado warning: Thousands left without power, flights diverted	USA Today	Jul 2
Suspected tornado rips through Georgia Naval base, leaving ‘multiple’ people injured	Fox News	Jul 7
Tropical Storm Elsa: Tornado confirmed in Little Egg Harbor, NJ	App	Jul 10
At least 125,000 customers left without electricity after suspected tornadoes and severe storms	CNN	Jul 25
Remnants of Tropical Storm Spark Tornado Warnings, Flood Roads Near Boston	NBC News	Aug 19
Tornado Causes Damage in Thompson; Roads Flooded; Power Outages	NBC News	Aug 19
Tornado rips through New Jersey as remnants of Ida move through	NBC News	Sep 1
Devastating photos of tornado damage	CBS News	Sep 22
WHY Australia is suddenly being hit by severe tornadoes – as Queensland is hit by twin twisters	Daily Mail	Oct 18
Video Shows Tornado-Like Waterspout Shocking Cuban Town	People	Oct 20

December 2021

More than 25 million under Friday severe storm threat	CNN	Dec 9
Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky nighttime tornadoes	AccuWeather	Dec 10
Recovery efforts begin after tornadoes rip through several states, killing dozens	NBC News	Dec 10
Central US severe weather: Powerful storm rolls across central US, unleashing at least 19 tornadoes	CNN	Dec 11
‘The damage here is indescribable’: See aftermath of Kentucky tornadoes	CNN Video	Dec 11
‘Quad-State Tornado’ crossed four states in four hours, a rare December tornado	NBC News	Dec 11
Aerials, ground video: Damage in Kentucky counties hit hardest by tornadoes	WLKY	Dec 11
Search continues for victims of tornadoes that killed dozens in central U.S.	CBS News	Dec 12
At least 70 feared dead in Kentucky alone, governor says, after tornadoes hit central and southern US	CNN	Dec 12
Tornado Left Deadly Path of Destruction up to 250 Miles Long in Kentucky, Five Other States	Wall Street Journal	Dec 13
74 dead, more than 100 still unaccounted in Kentucky tornado disaster	NBC News	Dec 13
42 Surreal Pictures Of The Kentucky Tornado Damage	Buzzfeed	Dec 13
Along the Monster Tornado’s 230-Mile Path: ‘She Saw the Fear in My Eyes’	Wall Street Journal	Dec 14
5 dead, 21 tornadoes confirmed after record-setting winds lash central U.S.	NBC News	Dec 15
Intense storm spawns tornadoes, including first ever observed in Minnesota during December	CNN	Dec 16

*While driven by weather, more than 90% of wildfires are human caused. Less than 10% are from lighting strikes or lava.

National Fire News	National Interagency Fire Center	Current
California’s Mega Fires Have Arrived 30 Years Early	Scientific American	Oct 20
Record-Breaking Wildfires Made North American Air Worse in 2020	Bloomberg	Mar 16
Worsening drought in West stokes fears of severe wildfire season ahead	Axios	Apr 7
California is likely to see another devastating wildfire season due to the megadrought in the Western US	Vox	Apr 15
Siberia Is on Fire—and It’s Only May	Gizmodo	May 3
Federal officials: California and West in for tough fire year	L.A. Times	May 13
California Wildfires Triple Amid Drought After Record 2020 Fire Season	Newsweek	May 19
A Zombie-Fire Outbreak May Be Growing in Alaska and Canada	WIRED	May 19
Oregon fall firestorms cautionary tale in worsening drought	ABC News	Jun 3
California Wildfire Prompts Evacuations on Beale Air Force Base and in Parts of Yuba County	The Weather Channel	Jun 8
Arizona Wildfire Burns at Least Five Structures; Firefighters’ Equipment Sparking Small Blazes	The Weather Channel	Jun 11
Firefighters prepare for severe wildfires in West after record season	CNBC	Jun 11
Rocky Mountain subalpine wildfires higher now than past 2,000 years	CNN	Jun 14
Arizona communities asked to evacuate after the Telegraph fire jumps the containment line	CNN	Jun 15
The latest tool in fighting wildfires is homes that won’t burn	The Verge	Jun 15
Wildfires erupt after hottest week in history across parts of the West ignited them	NBC News	Jun 21
Wildfires burn across US west as lightning sets off blaze near Arizona city	The Guardian	Jun 22
The US West Is a Ticking Time Bomb for More Fires and Power Failures	Business Insider	Jun 23
‘There’s just too much at risk’: Arizona closes parks to prevent extreme wildfires	The Guardian	Jun 25
Arizona wildfires: Bigger, hotter than ever. How will the land recover?	USA Today	Jun 29
Lava fire forces evacuations as heat wave slams California	LA Times	Jun 29
Wildfire Devastates Canadian Town That’s Broke Heat Record	Gizmodo	Jul 1
‘Lytton is gone’: wildfire tears through village after record-breaking heat	The Guardian	Jul 1
Wildfires grow in northern California with smoke plumes visible from space	The Guardian	Jul 1
Town Sets All-Time Heat Record, Then Burns to the Ground	Futurism	Jul 2
Cyprus: Nations send help to tackle worst wildfire in decades	BBC News	Jul 3
He had 10 minutes to flee the Salt fire. Now his home is gone	MSN News	Jul 5
My new climate reality? Packing a ‘firebag’ so I can flee at the drop of a hat	The Guardian	Jul 6
California wildfire grows explosively, prompts evacuations	NBC News	Jul 9
‘Extreme fire behavior’: 2 firefighters killed as Western wildfires intensify during heat wave	NBC News	Jul 10
Raging Oregon Wildfire Threatens California’s Power Grid	Gizmodo	Jul 10
California’s largest wildfire of the year raging as heat wave continues	ABC News	Jul 12
Wildfires rage across over 1 million acres in U.S. West and Canada	Axios	Jul 12
California wildfires outpacing 2020, the worst on record	LA Times	Jul 12
The Covid-wildfire link: The Oregon Bootleg Fire bodes ill for our post-pandemic wild spaces	NBC News	Jul 12
‘Like a firenado’: Homes burn, thousands more threatened as wildfires roar through West	USA Tdoay	Jul 13
More than 60 wildfires rage across US west – including blaze bigger than Portland	The Guardian	Jul 13
Planes dump water on Siberian wildfires as residents plead for help	Reuters	Jul 14
This small Northern California town was ravaged by a wildfire for the second time in less than a year	CNN	Jul 14
Smoke From Western Wildfires Stretches 2,600 Miles to Greenland	Gizmodo	Jul 15
Evacuations expand in Oregon as fire spreads erratically	ABC New	Jul 15
Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow \| Oregon	The Guardian	Jul 16
Bootleg Fire: The largest wildfire in the US has grown about 1,000 acres every hour	CNN	Jul 16
Fire in California spreads; Tamarack Fire prompts evacuations	USA Today	Jul 17
Dangerous combination of drought and dry lightning to set up in the Northwest US	AccuWeather	Jul 18
Bootleg Fire: Officials say major rain or snow will be needed to fully extinguish fire that’s burned more than 300,000 acres	The Washington Post	Jul 19
Bootleg Fire Grows to Size of LA as U.S. Warns of ‘Wildfire Crisis’	Gizmodo	Jul 19
The Bootleg Fire in Oregon is so large, it’s creating its own weather	CNN	Jul 20
Wildfire smoke from Oregon causes poor air quality, red sun in NYC, DC	USA Today	Jul 21
Smoke from California’s wildfires could contain dangerous levels of toxic metals, new research shows	San Francisco Chronicle	Jul 21
Bootleg Fire in Oregon grows; Dixie, Tamarack Fires grow in California	USA Today	Jul 21
There is no place you can go to escape wildfire smoke	Fast Company	Jul 21
New York air quality among worst in world as haze from western wildfires shrouds city	The Guardian	Jul 21
Wildfires scorching the West Coast create nationwide air pollution	CBS News	Jul 21
Wildfire and smoke map: track air quality by zip code	Fast Company	Jul 21
EXPLAINER: What’s fueling Russia’s ‘unprecedented’ fires? – ABC News	ABC News	Jul 22
Wildfires have erupted across the globe, scorching places that have never burned before	CNN	Jul 22
Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought	National Geographic	Jul 23
California’s Dixie Fire rages as temperatures expected to rise across US	Fox News	Jul 24
Fire whirls, ‘pyro’ clouds, and hazy skies: Extreme fire behavior is a preview of what’s to come	CNN	Jul 24
Humans are the cause of most wildfires. Climate change will make that worse	The Hill	Jul 24
Montana Wildfire Is The Nation’s New Top Firefighting Priority	NPR	Jul 25
‘Devastating’: Dixie Fire, California’s largest wildfire, devours multiple homes	SFGate	Jul 25
CA wildfires: Dixie Fire to 200K acres; latest on Tamarack \| The Sacramento Bee	The Sacramento Bee	Jul 26
As Dixie fire doubles, monsoon weather bring new threats	LA Times	Jul 27
Oh Good, Now There’s an Outbreak of Wildfire Thunderclouds	WIRED	Jul 27
Dixie Fire may worsen as temps increase; smoke affects East Coast	USA Today	Jul 27
Greece: Forest fire rips through area near Athens	BBC News	Jul 27
Oregon’s Bootleg Fire has devoured 400 buildings, 342 vehicles	CNN	Jul 27
Wildfires have burned a combined area the size of Delaware and Rhode Island — and then some	CNN	Jul 28
Wildfires explained: How weather causes them to spread	The Washington Post	Jul 28
Dixie Fire threatens haven for Camp Fire survivors who fled Paradise for Lake Almanor	The Washington Post	Jul 28
Wildfire rages in remote Finnish valley	Reuters	Jul 30
Turkey wildfires: ‘The animals are on fire,’ say devastated farmers as wildfires sweep Turkey	CNN	Jul 31

August 2021

California’s Dixie Fire explodes, forcing more evacuations	CBS News	Aug 4
California’s Dixie Fire, fueled by ‘winds in all directions,’ now unstoppable monster	SFGATE	Aug 4
Northern California wildfires destroy homes: Thousands evacuate	AXIOS	Aug 5
Raging wildfire destroys much of Northern California mountain town of Greenville	CBS News	Aug 5
The World Has Been On Fire For the past Month. Here’s What It Looks Like	Time	Aug 5
‘We did everything we could’: raging fire guts California Gold Rush town	The Guardian	Aug 5
Wildfire threatens ancient home of Olympic Games	NBC News	Aug 5
Thousands evacuate fast-moving California wildfire; homes burn	Reuters	Aug 5
Wildfire thunderstorms wreak havoc in California, fanning flames and destroying towns	Axios	Aug 6
Thousands in Greece and Turkey flee wildfires that display the “reality of climate change”	CBS News	Aug 6
Western wildfires are so intense they’re creating pyrocumulonimbus clouds	Grist	Aug 6
Fires are growing worse at night	The Verge	Aug 6
How extreme fire weather can cool the planet	National Geographic	Aug 6
How years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires	Fast Company	Aug 7
Historic US wildfires threaten net-zero targets as carbon offset woodland is wiped out	The Telegraph	Aug 7
Turkish fires raze graveyard and turn forests into hills of ashes	The London Times	Aug 7
Wildfires threaten to reduce thousands of California homes to ashes – CBS News	CBS News	Aug 7
The World Is on Fire, and It’s Only Going to Get Worse as Climate Keeps Changing	Mother Jones	Aug 7
Greece wildfires rip through towns as residents watch in horror	NBC News	Aug 8
Firefighters battle California’s River Fire	Reuters	Aug 9
Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first	The Guardian	Aug 9
Weather news: We ‘have never seen behavior like this’ say firefighters battling the Dixie Fire	CNN	Aug 9
Wildfires in Algeria: dozens of civilians and soldiers reported dead	The Guardian	Aug 10
Wildfires Ravage Greece, Turkey, Hot On The Heels Of U.N. Climate Crisis Report	HuffPost	Aug 10
Wildfires: How are they linked to climate change?	BBC News	Aug 11
Another Reminder That We Are Very Nearly Screwed	The CUT	Aug 11
Gary Maynard: Former college instructor faces arson charges over a Northern California fire	CNN	Aug 11
At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn	Reuters	Aug 12
Thunderstorms could worsen California’s giant Dixie fire, officials warn	The Guardian	Aug 12
Dixie Fire, California wildfires may burn until fall or winter	USA Today	Aug 12
Drifting smoke from megafires hurts economies far beyond their flames	CBS News	Aug 12
Siberian wildfires now bigger than all other fires in world combined	ABC News	Aug 12
‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels calls for prescribed burns	The Guardian	Aug 12
State of emergency in Russia’s Yakutia expanded over fires	ABC News	Aug 13
Turkey flood deaths rise as fresh fires erupt on Greek island of Evia	The Guardian	Aug 13
Forest Service maxed out as wildfires break across US West	ABC News	Aug 13
Climate-fueled wildfires take toll on tropical Pacific isles	ABC News	Aug 13
Satellite Images Reveal Evia Wildfire Destruction in Greece	Gizmodo	Aug 13
‘All that’s left are ashes’: Italian communities count cost of wildfires \| Italy	The Guardian	Aug 13
Fast-spreading wildfires in Siberia now bigger than all other fires in world combined	The Hill	Aug 13
After one month, Dixie Fire continues to rage with hundreds of homes destroyed	CBS News	Aug 14
Wildfires in Utah and California force thousands of residents to evacuate	CNN	Aug 15
Authorities attack Minnesota wildfire from air and ground	ABC News	Aug 17
It’s Time to Douse All the Campfires, Everyone	Newser	Aug 17
Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city	ABC News	Aug 17
Surging wildfire tears through northern California town and threatens others	The Guardian	Aug 17
World on fire: Wildfires rage across the globe	Reuters	Aug 17
Rapidly growing California Caldor Fire burns more than 6,500 acres with zero containment	NBC News	Aug 17
Grizzly Flats: the California town leveled by the Caldor fire – in pictures	The Guardian	Aug18
Satellite video shows the “explosive growth” of the Caldor Fire in California	CBS News	Aug 19
Siberia’s massive wildfires are unlocking extreme carbon pollution	National Geographic	Aug 19
Mega-Clouds of World-Traveling Smoke Harm Health Far From Wildfires	Business Insider	Aug 19
Space footage shows fires intensely blowing up in Western U.S.	Mashable	Aug 21
Wildfire smoke is transforming clouds, making rainfall less likely	National Geographic	Aug 23
California’s Caldor fire burns 100,000 acres as it rips through small towns	The Guardian	Aug 23
Caldor fire: fear as raging blaze ‘knocks on the door’ of Lake Tahoe	The Guardian	Aug 24
Breathing wildfire smoke during pregnancy raises risk of premature birth, study finds	The Guardian	Aug 24
A Wildfire Is Heading For Lake Tahoe, Sending Ash Raining Down On Tourists	NPR	Aug 25
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Closes Indefinitely Due to Wildfires	Outdoor Life	Aug 25
Minnesota wildfire doubles in size, creates its own weather	NBC News	Aug 25
‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds	The Guardian	Aug 25
Fires feast on a national park in Northern California	National Geographic	Aug 26
Wildfire Tech Finally Sees Investor Momentum	Inc.	Aug 26
Caldor Fire nears Lake Tahoe: Evacuation warnings begin, tourists told to stay home	USA Today	Aug 26
Caldor Fire: More than 41,000 people are under evacuation orders in California as state faces dangerous weather conditions for fire activity	CNN	Aug 27
Californian wildfire transforms U.S. Route 50 into fiery canyon	NBC News	Aug 27
Caldor Fire containment up, continues to threaten Lake Tahoe	Sacramento Bee	Aug 28
Mandatory Evacuations Ordered as Caldor Fire Nears Lake Tahoe	Gizmodo	Aug 30
Famously beautiful Lake Tahoe threatened by dangerous Caldor Fire	USA Today	Aug 31

September 2021

Caldor Fire: South Lake Tahoe faces critical hours as blaze closes in, threatening 34,000 structures	CNN	Sep 1
California firefighters ‘stretched to limit’ as devastating blazes become the norm	The Guardian	Sep 3
Lightning threatens California as fires continue to burn across the state	The Guardian	Sep 9
Rain does little to douse Caldor and Dixie wildfires in CA	Sacramento Bee	Sep 10
Spain fire: Thousands flee blaze near Costa del Sol town	BBC News	Sep 13
Wildfire Is Transforming Alaska and Amplifying Climate Change	Scientific American	Sep 15
KNP Complex fire: Fires near Sequoia National Park a potential threat	USA Today	Sep 15
Wildfires Threaten Sequoias as National Park Closes	Gizmodo	Sep 15
What Is ‘Fire Weather,’ and Why Is It Getting Worse?	WIRED	Sep 17
At Sequoia National Park, Giant Trees Wrapped in Foil as Nearby Wildfires Grow	Wall Street Journal	Sep 17
Sequoia National Park, General Sherman threatened by KNP Complex fire	USA Today	Sep 18
Fire weather is getting worse in the American West	Ars Technica	Sep 19
Sequoia National Park’s General Sherman tree, one of largest in the world, still safe amid growing wildfire	LA Times	Sep 19
Growing California wildfire spares group of giant sequoias	Reuters	Sep 19
California wildfires: weather conditions worsen threat to giant sequoia trees	The Guardian	Sep 20
The Dixie fire is almost out, but its inhospitable ‘moonscapes’ remain	The Guardian	Sep 22
Wildfires Emitted More Carbon Dioxide Than India Does in a Year	Gizmodo	Sep 22
Russia forest fire damage worst since records began, says Greenpeace	The Guardian	Sep 22
California wildfire scorches Long Meadow Grove of sequoia trees	Daily Mail	Sep 22
California fires threaten sequoias: Air quality alerts issued	Axios	Sep 23
New Fawn Fire quickly spreads in California as Windy Fire spurs more evacuations	LA Times	Sep 23
How California’s history of prescribed burns helped firefighters defend Sequoia National Park	USA Today	Sep 23
Climate change: We can’t just run away from wildfires	Vox	Sep 24
California: firefighters hope cooling temperatures will aid wildfire battle	The Guardian	Sep 25
Nighttime air in the western U.S. has turned drier, drying out fire fuels	The Washington Post	Sep 25

October 2021

Are California’s Wildfires Really “Disasters”—or Just Something Natural?	Mother Jones	Oct 8
Why the American west’s ‘wildfire season’ is a thing of the past – visualized	The Guardian	Oct 11
California wildfire balloons to 13,400 acres, jumps major highway	NBC News	Oct 11
Wildfire in southern California shuts down major highway and forces evacuations	The Guardian	Oct 12
Alisal Fire in California has prompted evacuations, road and Amtrak closures. And the heavy winds are making it hard to tame	CNN	Oct 13
Fires, drought weaken 10,000 trees near giant sequoia groves in California	Axios	Oct 23

November 2021

‘Nothing left to burn’: wildfires and floods could turn the tide on Turkey’s climate policy	The Guardian	Nov 2
Climate change wildfires’ main cause in U.S. West	Axios	Nov 2

December 2021

The World’s Coldest Inhabited Place Is Burning Because of ‘Zombie Fires’ (vice.com)	Vice	Dec 8
Rising temperatures, extreme drought and giant wildfires batter Colorado ski industry	NBC News	Dec 25
What the numbers tells us about a catastrophic year of wildfires	The Guardian	Dec 25
Boulder wildfires: Hundreds of homes burn; evacuations ordered	USA Today	Dec 30
Colorado Sees Most Destructive Wildfire in History. It’s December.	Gizmodo	Dec 30
Boulder, Colorado, area wildfires: Hundreds of homes lost and tens of thousands told to evacuate in Superior and Louisville	CNN	Dec 30
Boulder wildfires: Snow helps quell fires; some evacuees return	USA Today	Dec 31
Boulder wildfire: Videos show families fleeing Chuck E Cheese and Costco as Colorado consumed with wildfires	The Independent	Dec 31
Photos: Colorado fires force tens of thousands to flee	NPR	Dec 31

Winds up to 70 mph reported in Kansas City area: weather service	The Kansas City Star	Jun 11
Damaging winds threaten more than 90 million people in the Midwest and Northeast	CNN	Jul 14
Here Are The Records Ida Toppled	HuffPost	Sep 2
Up to 16-foot waves forecast near Chicago	CNN	Sep 22
Nor’easter power outages: Northeast sees hurricane-force winds	USA Today	Oct 27
Dangerous Hurricane-Force Winds Are Roaring Across the U.S.	Gizmodo	Dec 15
5 dead, 21 tornadoes confirmed after record-setting winds lash central U.S.	NBC News	Dec 15

The events / disasters below are typically not related to weather but can be a sub-event due to a weather-related main event or natural disaster (i.e: Food Insecurity, Homelessness or Unemployment)

Human-Caused Disasters

Mass shootings in the United States in 2021	Wikipedia	Current
Two dead, over 20 injured in Miami mass shooting, police say	MSN	May 30
Man kills woman, toddler at Florida Publix supermarket	USA Today	Jun 11
Florida Publix Shooting: Grandmother Stopped Gunman Before Her Death, Police Say	People	Jun 11
1 of 2 suspects in custody following Austin mass shooting	NBC News	Jun 12
4 mass shootings in 6 hours leave 38 wounded, 6 dead across US	ABC News	Jun 13
Video shows gunman shoot man next to two children in the Bronx	NBC News	Jun 19
Denver-area shooting: 3 people, including a police officer, killed	USA Today	Jun 21
7 shot, 3 of them fatally, in St. Louis	NBC News	Jun 22
Statesville, North Carolina shooting: Manhunt underway after 9-year-old girl killed and 2 boys wounded	CNN	Jun 29
Cable TV worker killed, public workers shot in S. Carolina	ABC News	Jul 2
1-month-old, 9-year-old girl shot in the head in separate acts of violence: Chicago police	ABC News	Jul 2
Texas Couple and Daughter, 6, Killed by Masked Man Who Knocked on Door	People	Jul 2
South Carolina boys, 8 and 9, to be charged in shooting death of 62-year-old man	Fox News	Jul 3
July 4th weekend shootings: More than 230 people fatally shot in shootings over the Fourth of July weekend	CNN	Jul 6
Beloved College Quarterback Is Killed in Fla. When 50 Shots Are Fired into His Car	People	Jul 6
Oregon man knocks out, hogties active shooter, according to Portland police	Fox News	Jul 7
Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president, amid fears of chaos	Reuters	Jul 8
Indiana man charged with murder after FBI Task Force officer shot outside federal building	ABC News	Jul 9
Man walks up and shoots couple dining at Houston aquarium, then turns gun on himself, police say	NBC News	Jul 9
3 shot outside barbershop after argument between 2 men over who won foot race a month ago	ABC News	Jul 11
Chicago weekend gun violence leaves 40 shot, 11 killed, including rapper ambushed after release from jail	Fox News	Jul 12
Man Shot in Head by Dirt Bike Riders in Carjacking on N.Y.C. Bridge	People	Jul 14
Chicago mass shootings fall just hours apart, creating morning horror show	Fox News	Jul 15
Police offering $60K reward after 6-year-old girl killed in Washington, DC, shooting	ABC News	Jul 17
Padres-Nationals game halted after shooting outside stadium	San Diego Union Tribune	Jul 17
Louisiana dad shot and killed by teen who entered underage daughter’s room through upstairs window, police say	Fox News	Jul 22
Student killed in shooting at North Carolina high school, suspect in custody: Police	ABC News	Sep 1
Shooter in Lakeland, Florida kills 4, including infant, shoots 11-year-old girl multiple times, sheriff says	USA Today	Sep 5
Two people taken to hospital after shooting at Virginia high school	The Hill	Sep 20
1 killed, 13 others injured in shooting at Kroger supermarket outside Memphis	NBC News	Sep 23
Utah Football Player Aaron Lowe, 21, Killed in House Party Shooting	People	Sep 26
Suspected teen gunman arrested in Texas high school shooting that injured 4, police say	NBC News	Oct 6
Boise police: Two dead, four injured in Towne Square shooting	Idaho Statesman	Oct 25
3 killed, 8 injured in shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan	NBC News	Nov 30
Father of Michigan school shooting suspect purchased gun: Authorities	USA Today	Nov 30
Disabled Man and Teenagers Among 11 Shot and Burned in Horrific Massacre	Vice	Dec 8
ATF Data Suggests Link Between Pandemic Gun Sales and Violence	The Trace	Dec 8
1 dead, 13 injured in shooting at vigil in Texas: Officials	ABC News	Dec 13
Colorado shooting spree leaves 5 dead and 3 injured, authorities say	USA Today	Dec 27
Myanmar: Save the Children says army attack killed staff	BBC News	Dec 27
A Cop Went on a Shooting Spree and Killed 4 Officers on Christmas Eve	Vice	Dec 29
Six injured after gunmen fire more than 65 shots in Philadelphia	NBC News	Dec 31

Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)	Council on Foreign Relations Global Conflict Tracker	Current
Afghanistan War	Council on Foreign Relations Global Conflict Tracker	Current
Insurgency in Northern Chad	Wikipedia	Jan 26
Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria	Wikipedia	Feb 18
2021 Israel–Palestine crisis	Wikipedia	May 10
China’s Xi pledges ‘reunification’ with Taiwan, gets stern rebuke	Reuters	Jul 1
Armed Afghan women take to streets in show of defiance against Taliban	The Guardian	Jul 7
Series of attacks target U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria	Reuters	Jul 8
Japan warns of crisis over Taiwan, growing risks from U.S.-China rivalry	Reuters	Jul 12
Israel-Gaza conflict: Apparent war crimes committed, says rights group	BBC News	Jul 27
Wagner: Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed	BBC News	Aug 12
Afghanistan: Major cities fall to Taliban amid heavy fighting	BBC News	Aug 13
Anti-Taliban fighters claim victories as first stirrings of armed resistance emerge	The Washington Post	Aug 20
Taliban Battles Militia in First Significant Clashes Since Takeover	Wall Street Journal	Aug 21
North Korea, South Korea trade ballistic missile tests amid stalled U.S. nuclear talks	NBC News	Sep 14
State Dept. urges all U.S. citizens to leave Ethiopia “as soon as possible”	Axios	Nov 5
Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s border. West worries this isn’t like the last time.	NBC News	Dec 2
COVID-19 curbs China’s power in Indo-Pacific, risks of war ‘significant’ – report	Reuters	Dec 5

There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year	NBC News	Mar 16
Attacks on Asian Americans Spiked by 164% in First Quarter of 2021	Voice of America	Apr 30
Covid ‘hate crimes’ against Asian Americans on rise	BBC News	May 21
Man charged with hate crime after verbal, physical assault on family of Asian descent	ABC News	Jun 12
Grocery Store Cashier Shot and Killed After Asking Someone to Wear a Mask	Vice	Jun 15
Video shows gunman shoot man next to two children in the Bronx	NBC News	Jun 19
What is causing outbursts of rage on planes and grocery checkout lines?	The Guardian	Jun 22
DHS raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory	CNN	Jun 30
Massachusetts police arrest group of ‘heavily armed men’ claiming to ‘not recognize our laws’	ABC News	Jul 3
Venice Beach violence reaches boiling point in L.A. as new viral video emerges	Fox News	Jul 3
Sen. Sherrod Brown shares photos of damage from U.S. Capitol breach	USA Today	Jul 7
Mass. woman arrested at McDonald’s drive thru, dragged police officer	USA Today	Jul 7
Girl, 6, snatched off bike; found fast with bystanders’ tips	ABC News	Jul 8
Indiana man charged with murder after FBI Task Force officer shot outside federal building	ABC News	Jul 9
Man walks up and shoots couple dining at Houston aquarium, then turns gun on himself, police say	NBC News	Jul 9
Man gets 5 years in prison for smashing Black teen’s face with chain	USA Today	Jul 9
McDonald’s Customers Pointed Gun at Manager in Salty Fries Dispute	Business Insider	Jul 10
3 shot outside barbershop after argument between 2 men over who won foot race a month ago	ABC News	Jul 11
Georgian cameraman dies after attack by far-right, anti-LGBTQ mob	The Guardian	Jul 11
Drunken Georgia man gets kicked out of club, returns to open fire and plow truck into bar: police	Fox News	Jul 12
Man arrested after attempted kidnapping in Queens, NYPD says	CNN	Jul 17
Arrest made in connection to brutal beating of woman by mob of ATV, dirt bike riders: Police	ABC News	Aug 6
Parent attacks teacher after mask dispute on first day of school in California district, official says	NBC News	Aug 13
Anti-Vaxxer Videotaped Attacking Journalist At Los Angeles Protest Is Linked To Capitol Riot	Huff Post	Aug 17
Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence	The Guardian	Aug 23
Father gunned down while dining at Miami Beach restaurant, trying to shield his 1-year-old son	NBC News	Aug 26
Student killed in shooting at North Carolina high school, suspect in custody: Police	ABC News	Sep 1
A Man Spit On My Toddler And Called Her The N-Word. It Changed How I Understand America.	HuffPost	Sep 3
Hostess assaulted at NYC restaurant after asking Texas patrons for proof of COVID-19 vaccination	ABC News	Sep 17
SBritish lawmaker dies after being stabbed at meeting with constituents	The Times of London	Oct 16
Thief broadcasts his face to thousands after snatching journalist’s phone during live report	The Guardian	Oct 21
American flight diverted after passenger assaults attendant, airline says	NBC News	Oct 27
Cancún tourists rush to shelter as armed gang storms beach at luxury hotel	The Guardian	Nov 4
Suni Lee says she was pepper sprayed in racist attack	NBC News	Nov 11
Southwest Airlines employee hospitalized after passenger punched her, police say	NBC News	Nov 13
Police report ‘some fatalities’ after more than 20 people were injured when a driver plowed through a Wisconsin Christmas parade	CNN	Nov 20
5 dead and 40 injured after SUV tore through Waukesha Christmas parade	NPR	Nov 22
FAA’s Shit List Catalogues Nightmare Tantrums in the Sky	The Daily Beast	Nov 23
NYC man out on bail walks up to 13-year-old boy, shoots him the neck: ‘Should not have happened’	Fox News	Nov 24
Boston Man, 82, Attacked by ATV Riders While Picking Up Turkey	People	Nov 25

December 2021

Tourists bask on a battlefield as drug gangs fight over Mexican resort town	The Guardian	Dec 5
Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters	Vice	Dec 5
‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6	POLITICO	Dec 6
Chicago chaos: Public bus driver hospitalized after beaten on street, 21 juveniles arrested	Fox News	Dec 6
Cartels Are Hiring Kids to Be Hitmen	Vice	Dec 8
Gunfire reported at Cancun beach after shooters arrive on jet skis, police say	NBC News	Dec 8
Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers’ threats	Reuters	Dec 10
Air marshals broke cover to detain ‘unruly passenger’	NBC News	Dec 10
Brawl breaks out at Miami International Airport	NBC News	Dec 21
California Attorney General on steps to combat ‘smash and grab’ robberies	NPR	Dec 22
Florida students charged after bullying caught on viral videos	NBC News	Dec 23
Myanmar: More than 30 reported killed, Save the Children staff missing, in Kayah state	CNN	Dec 25
Myanmar: Save the Children says army attack killed staff	BBC News	Dec 27
Patricia Cornwall: Delta passenger allegedly punches another passenger, faces federal charge	CNN	Dec 28
Minnesota man who allegedly tried to mug elderly woman at Walgreens turned in to cops by his own mom	Fox News	Dec 30

2021 United States Capitol attack	Wikipedia	Jan 6
DOJ releases Capitol riot videos from major conspiracy case involving the Proud Boys	CNN	Jun 22
Capitol rioter screamed ‘get her out, mace her’ as photographer was assaulted, FBI says	NBC News	Jun 29
‘Perfect storm’: Bulletin warns of extremist violence as pandemic restrictions lift	ABC News	Jun 30
DHS raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory	CNN	Jun 30
Protest turns violent in L.A. over trans woman disrobing at spa	NBC News	Jul 3
FBI Seized Lego Set of Capitol Building From Arrested Rioter	Gizmodo	Jul 7
Cuba Cracks Down on Protests Amid Worst Economic Crisis in Decades	Wall Street Journal	Jul 12
South Africa Zuma riots: Death toll mounts amid looting	BBC News	Jul 13
Cuba protests: Internet comes back on, and reveals scenes of a crackdown	The Washington Post	Jul 14
‘Still looking for answers’: South Africa reels from deadly riots	Al Jazeera	Jul 19
Tunisia’s PM sacked after violent Covid protests	BBC News	Jul 26
Tunisia rocked as president suspends parliament amid Covid crisis	CNBC	Jul 27
Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence	The Guardian	Aug 23
US armed protests are increasing, more likely to turn violent: Study	USA Today	Aug 23
Taliban beats protesters at women’s rally in Kabul	LA Times	Sep 8
Melbourne descends into chaos as police arrest 62 and fire rubber pellets at anti-lockdown protesters	The Guardian	Sep 21
US Capitol rioter who downplayed the attack is sentenced to three months in jail	CNN Politics	Oct 8
Six dead as Beirut gripped by worst street violence in 13 years	The Guardian	Oct 14
Politicians face violence and threats from voters — and each other. Are we nearing a civil war?	NBC News	Nov 14
“QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in January 6 attack	CBS News	Nov 17
Protests erupt from New York to California after Rittenhouse acquitted on all charges	Fox News	Nov 20
America is now in fascism’s legal phase	The Guardian	Dec 22

The worst security breaches of 2020

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June 2021

Massachusetts Steamship Authority Cyber Attack; Ferries Delayed	Newsweek	Jun 2
Network Intrusion, Suspected Ransomware Attack at Fujifilm	Bank Info Security	Jun 3
FBI attributes JBS ransomware attack to REvil	ZDNet	Jun 3
Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack: Timeline & Recovery Details	MSSP Alert	Jun 7
How ransomware is impacting regular people	The Washington Post	Jun 8
Billions of emails and passwords appear in largest data leak ever; consumers should change passwords	The Ladders	Jun 9
The Ruthless Hackers Behind Ransomware Attacks on U.S. Hospitals: ‘They Do Not Care’	Wall Street Journal	Jun 10
Meat Supplier JBS Pays Ransomware Hackers $11 Million, Despite Having Backups	PC Magazine	Jun 10
10 Major Cyber Attacks Witnessed Globally in Q1 2021	Security Boulevard	Jun 10
Nearly 26M Amazon, Facebook, Apple, eBay user logins stolen by hackers	Fox Business	Jun 11
Mysterious Malware Stole Data from 3.25 Million Windows Computers	Gizmodo	Jun 11
Electronic Arts Hackers Say Slack Was Their Secret Weapon	Gizmodo	Jun 11
McDonald’s hit by data breach in Taiwan and South Korea	BBC News	Jun 12
One Billion CVS Health Records Were Exposed Online	Gizmodo	Jun 16
A hacker tried to poison a Calif. water supply. It was as easy as entering a password	NBC News	Jun 17
Former Black Hat hacker warns cyberattacks against US will get ‘exponentially worse and worse’	Fox News	Jun 21
A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data	Ars Technica	Jun 22
Colonial Pipeline, JBS ransomware attacks raise cybersecurity fears	USA Today	Jun 22
Hackers hit Microsoft customer service system, make off with data	CNET	Jun 26
A Mysterious Cyberattack Is Completely Erasing Western Digital MyBook Live Drives	Forbes	Jun 27
Killer Drone Hunted Someone Down Without Being Told To	LAD Bible	Jun 28
SolarWinds Hackers Continue Assault With a New Microsoft Breach	WIRED	Jun 28
IT, healthcare and manufacturing facing most phishing attacks: report	ZDNet	Jun 30

July 2021

This Hacker Broke Into His School’s HVAC Before Thermostats Became ‘Smart’	Vice	Jul 2
Kaseya urges customers to immediately shut down VSA servers after ransomware attack	ZDNet	Jul 2
Leaked infrastructure code, credentials and keys costing orgs an average of $1.2 million per year	ZDNet	Jul 2
US companies hit by ‘colossal’ cyber-attack	BBC News	Jul 3
REvil’s Latest Ransomware Campaign Affects More Than 200 Companies	PC Magazine	Jul 3
Ransomware Attack Affecting Likely Thousands of Targets Drags On	Wall Street Journal	Jul 4
Swedish Coop supermarkets shut due to US ransomware cyber-attack	BBC News	Jul 4
Hackers in Saturday’s ‘sophisticated’ ransomware attack targeted flaw in IT management software	Fortune	Jul 4
Kaseya ransomware attack: US launches investigation as gang demands giant $70 million payment	ZDNet	Jul 5
Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, U.S. firm’s CEO says	Reuters	Jul 6
The Next Pandemic Will Be Digital, and It’s Already Here. What You Need to Know About the Growing Threat of Ransomware	Inc	Jul 6
Ransomware: US warns Russia to take action after latest attacks	ZDNet	Jul 7
iOS zero-day let SolarWinds hackers compromise fully updated iPhones	Ars Technica	Jul 14
Tech firm hit by giant ransomware hack gets key to unlock victims’ data	The Guardian	Jul 22

August 2021

Nearly one million credit cards offered on underground forum	ZDNet	Aug 10
FBI No-Fly Terrorist Watchlist Leaks, 1.9M Records Exposed	Gizmodo	Aug 17
Brazilian National Treasury hit with ransomware attack	ZDNet	Aug 17
U.S. telecoms agency to probe T-Mobile data breach – 47M customers impacted	Reuters	Aug 18
U.S. State Department recently hit by a cyber attack	Reuters	Aug 21
Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes 38 million data records	ZDNet	Aug 23
Data leak exposes tens of millions of private records from corporations and government agencies	CNN	Aug 24
FBI releases alert about Hive ransomware after attack on hospital system in Ohio and West Virginia	ZDNet	Aug 26
Afghanistan’s reported data breach has life-and-death consequences	Fast Company	Aug 31

September 2021

Fed up with constant cyberattacks, one country is about to make some big changes	ZDNet	Sep 3
Hackers Just Leaked 500,000 Fortinet VPN Users’ Passwords	Gizmodo	Sep 8
3 ex-U.S. intelligence officials confess to hacking for UAE	Axios	Sep 15
Epik data breach impacts 15 million users, including non-customers	Ars Technica	Sep 20
Exchange/Outlook autodiscover bug exposed 100,000+ email passwords	Ars Technica	Sep 23
Ransomware strike targets US agriculture industry, White House quietly hits back	Fox Business	Sep 25
Microsoft warning: This malware creates a ‘persistent’ backdoor for hackers	ZDNet	Sep 28
Ransomware attacks against hospitals are having some very grim consequences	ZDNet	Sep 29
A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death	Wall Street Journal	Sep 30

October 2021

‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert	The Guardian	Oct 29
These Companies Are Most at Risk for Ransomware Attacks	PC Magazine	Oct 29
Minnesota man charged in hacking MLB and for trying to extort the league	CNN	Oct 29
iOS 15, Windows 10, Google Chrome Hacked During Huge Cyber Onslaught	Forbes	Oct 30
Europol Captures 12 Behind Ransomware Attacks on 1,800 Victims	Gizmodo	Oct 31

November 2021

Hackers have breached organizations in defense and other sensitive sectors, security firm says	CNN Video	Nov 8
Hacker Hits Robinhood to Steal Email Addresses From 5 Million Users	PC Mag	Nov 8
Robinhood Hack Also Included Thousands of Phone Numbers	Vice	Nov 16
Insurers run from ransomware cover as losses mount	Reuters	Nov 19
Iranian Hackers Are Going After US Critical Infrastructure	WIRED	Nov 19
Malware downloaded from PyPI 41,000 times was surprisingly stealthy	Ars Technica	Nov 19
Microsoft warning: Now Iran’s hackers are attacking IT companies, too	ZDNet	Nov 19
Too Many Data Breach Victims Respond by Doing Nothing	PC Mag	Nov 22

December 2021

Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms	CNN	Dec 2
Hackers Make Off With $150 Million In BitMart Cryptocurrency Heist	LAD Bible	Dec 6
Criminal hackers are now going after phone lines, too	NPR	Dec 6
Google warns that NSO hacking is on par with elite nation-state spies	Ars Technica	Dec 18
Cream cheese shortage was the result of a cyberattack	CNN	Dec 18
Worst Cyberattacks of 2021 (So Far)	SDxCentral	Dec 28
China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show	The Washington Post	Dec 31
Ransomware and Phishing and Malware, Oh My! Combatting 2021’s Scariest Security Threats	PCMag	Dec 31

Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis	The Guardian	Jul 2
Cuba Cracks Down on Protests Amid Worst Economic Crisis in Decades	Wall Street Journal	Jul 12
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.	Vice	Jul 14
Dow tumbles 700 points for its worst drop since October as investors fear a Covid resurgence	CNBC	Jul 19
Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction	The Guardian	Jul 25
Southeast Asia could lose $28 trillion from climate inaction	CNBC	Sep 2
U.S. oil losses from Hurricane Ida rank among worst in 16 years	Reuters	Sep 8
Let’s be clear on why the US economy is weakening (opinion)	CNN	Sep 8
Ida caused an estimated $24 billion in damage in the Northeast — but a dismal number of people were insured for flooding	MarketWatch	Sep 8
There are dire economic effects of extreme heat in the U.S.	Fast Company	Sep 9
U.S. Economy Shows Resilience During Delta Surge	Wall Street Journal	Sep 16
America Is Running Out of Everything	The Atlantic	Oct 7
Global Supply-Chain Problems Escalate, Threatening Economic Recovery	Wall Street Journal	Oct 8
A Winter of Giant Gas Bills Is Coming. Are You Ready?	Wall Street Journal	Oct 14
Worker Strikes Are Back as Labor Gains Leverage and Uses It	Barron’s	Oct 14
White House vows to treat climate change as “systemic” financial risk	Axios	Oct 15
Supply chain chaos is hitting global growth and could get worse	CNBC	Oct 18
Money For Green Energy Creates More Jobs Than Fossil Fuel Investment, New Study Finds	Huff Post	Oct 18
Backlog of cargo ships at southern California ports reaches an all-time high	The Guardian	Oct 20
Cargo Ships Waiting to Unload in California Reach All-Time High	Gizmodo	Oct 23
Economy under first ten months of Biden outperforming first two years of Trump	Yahoo News	Nov 5
Home prices spiked by double-digits in 78% of US cities last quarter	CNN	Nov 10
U.S. Inflation Hit 31-Year High in October as Consumer Prices Jump 6.2%	Wall Street Journal	Nov 10
Home prices are now rising much faster than incomes, studies show	CNBC	Nov 10
Two billion ‘out of stock’ messages an ominous sign for small businesses as holidays near	The Hill	Nov 12
Supply chain shortages likely here to stay after COVID	Axios	Nov 19
Why Gas Prices Are So High Right Now	Gizmodo	Nov 19
Stocks, Oil Drop Sharply on Concerns Over New Covid-19 Variant	Wall Street Journal	Nov 26

December 2021

Egg farmer raises prices for first time in seven years over supply chain issues	Fox News	Dec 8
‘6% inflation is devastating’ to Americans, financial expert says	CNBC	Dec 8
In 2022, companies plan to give biggest raises in more than a decade	The Washington Post	Dec 8
U.S. Inflation Hit a 39-Year High in November	Wall Street Journal	Dec 10
Consumer prices rose by 6.8 percent in November, as inflation hits highest pace since 1982	NBC News	Dec 10
U.S. Inflation Hit a 39-Year High in November	Wall Street Journal	Dec 10
Booming U.S. Economy Ripples World-Wide	Wall Street Journal	Dec 21
Serai says stress in supply chains will continue well into 2022	CNBC	Dec 22
PCE inflation: A key price measure just hit a nearly four-decade high	CNN	Dec 23
Here’s Why Supply Chains Are So Broken—And Aren’t Really Getting Better	Forbes	Dec 24
Small Businesses Say They’re Being Hammered By Supply Chain Disruptions	Forbes	Dec 24

2021 Madrid explosion	Wikipedia	Jan 20
10 People, Including 6 Children, Injured In Gas Explosion At Bronx Building	CBS New York	Feb 18
Manhole Explosion in Manhattan Injures 3	New York Times	Feb 28
2021 Bata explosions	Wikipedia	Mar 7
Gender-reveal explosion rattles New Hampshire	The Washington Post	Apr 23
Explosion at Governor Cuomo’s New York City Office Building	Heavy	May 30
Explosions Rock Serbian Ammunition Plant	US News & World Report	Jun 4
At least 12 killed in huge gas explosion in central Chinese city	CNN	Jun 13
4 dead after possible NC explosion, including father and 3 children: report	Fox News	Jun 30
17 hurt in explosion after LAPD illegal fireworks detonation	LA Times	Jun 30
The LAPD Exploded a Stash of Illegal Fireworks in the Middle of the City	Vice	Jul 1
Gulf of Mexico pipeline fire: Pemex says fire out; videos go viral	USA Today	Jul 2
Video captures Ocean City, Maryland fireworks detonating in truck near boardwalk	Fox News	Jul 4
Azerbaijan says ‘mud volcano’ caused Caspian Sea explosion	The Guardian	Jul 4
Fire at Bangladesh juice factory kills 52, many feared trapped	Reuters	Jul 8
Two people seriously injured after explosion at chemical site in Leverkusen, Germany	USA Today	Jul 27
WATCH: Video shows fireball erupt from Queens sidewalk while man is walking	NBC News	Jul 27
4 hurt in roof collapse and explosion at Arizona building	NBC News	Aug 26
Milan fire: Flames engulf modern 20-storey block of flats	BBC News	Aug 30
Dallas apartment building partially collapses, 7 injured: Officials	ABC News	Sep 29
Emergency crews respond to structure fire in Springville	KSL TV	Nov 9
Four injured after old WWII aircraft bomb explodes in Munich – police	Reuters	Dec 1
Arson suspected in Japan clinic blaze with 27 feared dead	Reuters	Dec 17

U.S. Hunger Relief Organization	Feeding America	Current
World Hunger: Key Facts and Statistics 2021 \| Action Against Hunger	Action Against Hunger	Current
Texans running out of food during power outage, weather crisis	The Texas Tribune	Feb 17
Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises	Food & Agriculture Org of the United Nations	May 5
US food banks brace for demand as Republicans end unemployment benefits	The Guardian	Jun 14
Workers transformed a McDonald’s in France into a food bank	The Washington Post	Jun 24
Grocery Stores Couldn’t Handle the Historic Northwest Heat Wave	Gizmodo	Jul 2
Equilibrium/Sustainability — Grasshoppers are winning the heat wave	The Hill	Jul 2
‘Wither away and die:’ U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops	Reuters	Jul 12
World hunger, malnutrition soared last year mostly due to COVID-19 – U.N. agencies	Reuters	Jul 12
The U.S. Wheat Crop Is in Trouble	Gizmodo	Jul 13
We need to prepare for a plant pandemic that could hit our food system	Fast Company	Jul 21
UK food supply chains ‘on the edge of failing’, meat industry warns	Reuters	Jul 21
The deadliest flower in the insect world is a lifeline to farmers—and the planet	National Geographic	Aug 4
How the California Megadrought Is Affecting Food Prices	Gizmodo	Aug 6
Global food supplies will suffer as temperatures rise – climate crisis report	The Guardian	Aug 10
Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine	BBC News	Aug 25
‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming	The Guardian	Aug 25
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks	The Guardian	Aug 30
Extreme weather devastates corn, soybean, avocado production	AXIOS	Sep 1
Madagascar Is Suffering Through Catastrophic Famine	Gizmodo	Sep 6
Did IRS stimulus checks, SNAP benefits help feed the hungry?	Fast Company	Sep 8
USDA study shows success of federal food safety net programs during pandemic	The Washington Post	Sep 8
Pigs, Cows, and Other Animals May Have to Be Put to Death Because COVID Misinformation Is Causing a Run on Ivermectin	Vanity Fair	Sep 28
Grocery stores could face supply shortages ahead of holidays	Axios	Oct 9
China food supply: How a warning sparked panic buying	CNN	Nov 5
Global Food Prices Surge as Inflation Spreads	Wall Street Journal	Nov 5
A million Afghan children at risk of dying amid acute malnutrition, WHO says	Reuters	Nov 12
What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world? How climate change will affect food	The Washington Post	Nov 24
With Social Security offices largely closed in the pandemic, the poor and disabled lose access to benefits.	The Washington Post	Dec 24

Global Incident Map – HAZMAT Situations Map	Global Incidents Map	Current
Massive chemical fire decimates Rockton plant	Chicago Tribune	Jun 14
Plastic is killing our planet. Will the consumer packaged goods industry step up?	Fast Company	Jul 6
Water on Chesapeake Bay military bases contains toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’	The Guardian	Aug 11
Louisiana Shell refinery left spewing chemicals after Hurricane Ida	The Guardian	Sep 4
Rush to contain large oil spill in Gulf of Mexico after Storm Ida	BBC News	Sep 5
What caused the California oil spill?	LA Times	Oct 3
A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean has reached the Southern California coast	NPR	Oct 3
California oil spill off coast threatens shores from Huntington Beach to Laguna Beach	CNN	Oct 4
California oil spill: A 13-inch tear in a pipe was likely the source. Here’s how it may have gotten there	CNN	Oct 6
Rotting Red Sea oil tanker could leave 8m people without water	The Guardian	Oct 11
Phthalates: Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds	CNN	Oct 12
Huge Machine Cleans Up Vast Load of Ocean Plastic	Futurism	Oct 16
Plastic industry pollution to overtake coal in US by 2030, report says	Ars Technica	Oct 24
Permafrost Thaw Could Unleash Pathogens and Radioactive Waste	Gizmodo	Oct 25
Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Ocean Cleanup nets 63,000 lbs of junk	USA Today	Oct 29
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction	The Guardian	Oct 30
‘This is the age of waste’: the show about our throwaway addiction and how to cure it	The Guardian	Nov 1
EPA phased out a toxic pesticide in 2010. Before Trump left office, it was approved for Florida citrus	USA Today	Nov 2
India’s Yamuna River coated in toxic foam as Hindu devotees gather for Chhath Puja festival	CNN	Nov 10
‘We’ve made history’: Flint water crisis victims to receive $626m settlement \| Flint water crisis	The Guardian	Nov 10
How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, became one of the most polluted places on Earth	NBC News	Nov 28
Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of	The Guardian	Nov 29
‘Deluge of plastic waste’: US is world’s biggest plastic polluter	The Guardian	Dec 1
Plastic-Degrading Enzymes May Be Increasing in Response to Pollution	Smithsonian Magazine	Dec 17
‘Major industrial accident’ at Exxon Mobil plant in Texas, sheriffs say	ABC News	Dec 23
A Plant That Sterilizes Medical Equipment Spews Cancer-Causing Pollution on Tens of Thousands of Schoolchildren	ProPublica	Dec 27

Homeless Population By State 2021	World Population Review	Current
Louisiana coast still hurting from storms, bracing for more	MSN	May 30
California’s homeless crisis is at a crossroads. Will $12B fix it?	USA Today	Jun 14
Millions in US ‘race against the clock’ to pay the rent and stave off eviction \| Housing	The Guardian	Jun 17
U.S. Supreme Court maintains CDC’s pandemic-related residential eviction ban	Reuters	Jun 29
Venice Beach violence reaches boiling point in L.A. as new viral video emerges	Fox News	Jul 3
Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing	Wall Street Journal	Jul 7
Apple Has a Growing Homeless Encampment on Its Property	Vice	Jul 14
As Eviction Moratorium Expires, Millions at Risk of Losing Homes on Aid Delays	Bloomberg	Jul 21
End of Eviction Moratorium Puts Many Tenants at Risk of Losing Their Homes	Wall Street Journal	Jul 23
US states brace for ‘avalanche’ of evictions as federal moratorium ends	The Guardian	Jul 30
Federal eviction protections have ended, leaving renters scrambling	Vox	Aug 1
Here’s what happened when a San Francisco nonprofit gave unhoused people $500 a month	Fast Company	Aug 6
How one universal basic income experiment is helping the homeless	CNBC	Aug 21
This Map Shows Where Unhoused People Aren’t Allowed To Exist in Los Angeles	Vice	Aug 23
Evictions are still banned in these states	CNBC	Aug 30
Grand Isle, Louisiana “uninhabitable” as Hurricane Ida leaves every building either damaged or destroyed	CBS News	Sep 1
The Coming Wave of Evictions Is More Than a Housing Crisis	The Atlantic	Sep 3
California Set to Spend Billions on Curing Homelessness and Caring for ‘Whole Body’ Politic	Kaiser Health News	Sep 8
End of eviction moratoriums adds urgency for 3.5 million Americans behind on rent	Yahoo	Sep 10
Millions of older Americans live on the economic edge—evictions will send them into homelessness	MarketWatch	Sep 13
Foreclosures surge 67% as Covid mortgage bailouts expire	CNBC	Oct 14
Despite record tourism boom at national parks, high costs leave local workers homeless	Fortune	Oct 15
‘Nobody cares I have nowhere to live’: wildland firefighters struggle with homelessness	The Guardian	Oct 21
Home prices spiked by double-digits in 78% of US cities last quarter	CNN	Nov 10
Home prices surge 19.5% annually in September, but experts say pace of growth is slowing	Fox Business	Dec 20
Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates Homes to Homeless Veterans for Christmas	People	Dec 24

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Current

June 2021

Welcome to the summer of quitting. Why many of us are saying goodbye to our jobs	LA Times	Jun 14
The Great Resignation: Why Millions of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs	NPR	Jun 24
More people plan to quit as return-to-work plans go into effect	CNBC	Jun 29
Plugging abandoned oil and gas wells could help save the environment – and jobs	CBS News	Jun 29
People Aren’t Just Quitting their Jobs. They’re Redefining Success	Inc.	Jun 30
Few unemployed people are actively looking for jobs	Axios	Jun 30

July 2021

US Unemployment Benefits Applications Fell to 364,000 Last Week	Bloomberg	Jul 1
U.S. job gains surge, added 850,000 jobs in June, a significant improvement over May’s 583,000 job gain	POLITICO	Jul 2
You’re not the only one who’s had enough: 95 percent of workers are considering quitting, report says	NBC News	Jul 7
Is your boss ending remote work? As a CEO, let me tell you why they are wrong	The Guardian	Jul 7
U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rise, overall trend points lower	Reuters	Jul 8
Ungenerous Unemployment Explains Why People Can’t Get Jobs	Time	Jul 8
Job Openings Are at Record Highs. Why Aren’t Unemployed Americans Filling Them?	Wall Street Journal	Jul 9
9 Out of 10 Workers Are Looking to Change Jobs. Here’s What You Can Do About It	Inc	Jul 15
Canada sheds 294,200 jobs in June – ADP	Reuters	Jul 15
US Unemployment Benefits Applications Fall to New Pandemic Low	Bloomberg	Jul 15
Many Jobs Lost During the Coronavirus Pandemic Just Aren’t Coming Back	Wall Street Journal	Jul 15
Low Pay Is The Main Reason So Many Workers Are Quitting Restaurant Jobs	NPR	Jul 20
The Great Resignation: Microsoft Predicts 41% Attrition	Forbes	Jul 21
The Great Resignation – 95% of employees are considering changing jobs	Ladders	Jul 21

August 2021

Unemployment Claims Fall to New Pandemic-Era Low But Remain Historically High	Entrepreneur	Aug 5
There are about 1 million more job openings than people looking for work	CNBC	Aug 7
Another 3.9 million people quit their jobs in June	CNBC	Aug 10
Great Resignation: 55% are looking to change jobs over the next year	CNBC	Aug 25

September 2021

Jobless claims total 340,000, lowest level since early in pandemic	CNBC	Sep 2
McDonald’s hiring 14-year-olds in Oregon amid labor shortage	BBC News	Sep 2
‘The Great Resignation’: Why Gen Z Is Leaving The Workforce In Droves…And What To Do About It	Forbes	Sep 2
U.S. August Hiring Slows Sharply As Latest Surge Slams Brakes On Economy	NPR	Sep 3
August jobs report: U.S. adds just 235,000 jobs, a massive slowdown	Axios	Sep 3
Why America has 8.4 million unemployed when there are 10 million job openings	The Washington Post	Sep 4
‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers \| Environment	The Guardian	Sep 6
Four Million Workers Quit in June. Here’s What Businesses Are Doing to Get Better Career Matches	Inc.	Sep 8
The ‘Great Resignation’ is working in favor of small businesses in these industries	Fast Company	Sep 15
Why Workers Are Ready to Quit–and How to Get Them to Stay, According to a New Survey	Inc.	Sep 22
I spoke to 5,000 people and these are the real reasons they’re quitting	Fast Company	Sep 23
Scambition: Is That All There Is? Why Burnout Is A Broken Promise. The Burnout Generation Wants Some Answers	Refinery29	Sep 28
Hundreds of hospital staffers fired or suspended for refusing COVID-19 vaccine mandate	ABC News	Sep 30

October 2021

Fighting to Keep Employees During the Great Resignation? A New Survey Suggests a Free and Effective Way to Hold Onto Your People	Inc	Oct 4
These are the biggest factors driving workplace stress	CNBC	Oct 5
The Silver Lining for Employers in the Great Resignation	Inc	Oct 7
US wages are going up, and those who don’t adapt to the new reality will fail	The Guardian	Oct 10
JOLTS report: A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage	The Washington Post	Oct 12
A record 4.3 million workers walked off the job in August	NBC News	Oct 12
Employers offer cash bonuses to job seekers	Axios	Oct 15
The Great Resignation Is Accelerating	The Atlantic	Oct 15
Vaccine mandates stoked fears of labor shortages. But hospitals say they’re working.	The Washington Post	Oct 16
Great Resignation may lead employers to offer financial wellness perks	CNBC	Oct 18
Your employees are quitting because of a lack of belonging	Fast Company	Oct 19
Why Are People Really Leaving Their Jobs? The Whole Reason Can Be Summed Up in 4 Words	Inc	Oct 19
UK doctors call for return of Covid restrictions; new mutation watched	CNBC	Oct 20
Walkouts and strikes hit hospitals in pandemic hot spots	POLITICO	Oct 21
The Great Resignation: As more people quit, other staffers follow	USA Today	Oct 29
Why Young People Are Quitting Jobs—And Not Going Back	Time	Oct 29
Employers are firing more people over fake vaccine cards	Yahoo Finance	Oct 30
There’s No ‘Great Resignation’ — Americans Just Aren’t Taking Bad Jobs	Business Insider	Oct 30

November 2021

The CEOs of Microsoft and LinkedIn Agree: We’re in the Middle of the ‘Great Reshuffle,’ Not the ‘Great Resignation’	Inc	Nov 4
Here’s where the jobs are for October 2021 — in one chart	CNBC	Nov 5
Economy under first ten months of Biden outperforming first two years of Trump	Yahoo News	Nov 5
Pay transparency tools help companies in Great Resignation	Fast Company	Nov 8
How to prepare for boomerang workers after the Great Resignation	Fast Company	Nov 9
‘Stretched too thin’: With staff ‘exhausted,’ schools cancel class or return to remote learning	USA Today	Nov 11
Great Resignation is speeding up: Here are 4 reasons why	Fast Company	Nov 12
As American Workers Leave Jobs in Record Numbers, a Closer Look at Who Is Quitting	Wall Street Journal	Nov 14
As The Great Resignation Accelerates, CEOs Face A Grand Reckoning	Inc	Nov 15
The disposable US workforce: life as an ‘essential’ meatpacking plant worker	The Guardian	Nov 19
Where U.S. Workers Are Quitting Jobs at Record Rates	Wall Street Journal	Nov 25

December 2021

Nurses are leaving staff jobs during covid and tripling salaries to travel	The Washington Post	Dec 6
The Great Resignation is Quickly Becoming The Great Revolt: 5 Actions Leaders Should Take Now	Entrepreneur	Dec 6
Job openings hover near all-time highs as Great Resignation shows little sign of easing	USA Today	Dec 8
Four-day workweek gains support among progressives in Congress	CBS News	Dec 8
Jobless claims fall to 52-year low as layoffs decline	CBS News	Dec 9
American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond	Wall Street Journal	Dec 21
Want to weather the Great Resignation? Create an internal brand employ	Fast Company	Dec 22
7 ways HR will look different in 2022	Fast Company	Dec 26
A day after giving birth, I was asked back to work. America needs paid family leave	The Guardian	Dec 27

NTSB Aircraft Mishap Query	NTSB	Current
7 presumed dead after plane crashes into lake	MSN	May 30
Two men have died after their plane crashed near a Utah ski resort	MSN	May 31
Dozens killed in Philippine military plane crash	BBC News	Jul 4
45 dead and dozens injured in Philippines military troop plane crash	Times of London	Jul 4
2 women killed after small plane crashes into empty home – ABC News	ABC News	Jul 14
4 dead after jet crashes into Connecticut building	NBC News	Sep 2
7 people survive plane crash in Provincetown	NBC News	Sep 9
Montana Couple Killed in Plane Crash, Son Has Burns on 70% of His Body	People	Sep 29
At least 2 dead after plane crashes into residential neighborhood near San Diego	NBC News	Oct 11
Texas plane crash: Video shows dramatic aftermath of Texas plane crash	CNN Video	Oct 19

DC pedestrian bridge collapses onto highway, injuring several people	CNN	Jun 23
99 missing as condo collapses near Miami Beach, FL	Miami Herald	Jun 24
Florida building collapse survivors recount escapes, loved ones wait	USA Today	Jun 24
Trapped worker rescued from collapsed Washington building	Reuters	Jul 1
5 killed in crane collapse at residential tower in Canada	ABC News	Jul 13
Dallas apartment building partially collapses, 7 injured: Officials	ABC News	Sep 29
Hong Kong typhoon: 1 killed and 3 rescued after scaffolding collapses	YP	Oct 7

List of terrorist incidents in 2021	Wikipedia	Current
2021 United States Capitol attack	Wikipedia	Jan 6
White House unveils strategy to combat domestic terrorism	POLITICO	Jun 15
DOJ releases Capitol riot videos from major conspiracy case involving the Proud Boys	CNN	Jun 22
Capitol rioter screamed ‘get her out, mace her’ as photographer was assaulted, FBI says	NBC News	Jun 29
‘Perfect storm’: Bulletin warns of extremist violence as pandemic restrictions lift	ABC News	Jun 30
DHS raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory	CNN	Jun 30
FBI Seized Lego Set of Capitol Building From Arrested Rioter	Gizmodo	Jul 7
Sen. Sherrod Brown shares photos of damage from U.S. Capitol breach	USA Today	Jul 7
Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president, amid fears of chaos	Reuters	Jul 8
Charges cite Trump unrest in alleged plot on Democrats’ HQ	ABC News	Jul 16
Biden vows revenge for Kabul attack that killed 13 U.S. service members	CBS News	Aug 27
Analysis: New bombshells show Trump’s coup threat was real and hasn’t passed	CNN Politics	Sep 22
CNN reporter says Steve Bannon’s admission creates a ‘huge problem’	CNN	Sep 24
Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller pleads guilty to felony after joining Capitol riot	ABC News	Sep 30
20 Years After the Anthrax Attacks, We’re Still Unprepared	Wired	Oct 4
Senate details Donald Trump’s push at DOJ to overturn 2020 election	USA Today	Oct 7
US Capitol rioter who downplayed the attack is sentenced to three months in jail	CNN Politics	Oct 8
Jan. 6 investigators move to hold Bannon in contempt	POLITICO	Oct 14
Toughest sentence yet handed down in January 6-related case for man who threatened lawmakers and tech executives	CNN Politics	Oct 21
EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff	Rolling Stone	Oct 24
Capitol Rioter Going to Jail Despite Tweeting ‘Definitely Not Going To Jail’	Daily Jot	Nov 4
Opinion: Gosar’s video targets AOC and Biden, but backfires big time	CNN	Nov 9
Scott Fairlamb, US Capitol rioter who assaulted police officer, gets 41 months in prison	CNN	Nov 10
‘QAnon Shaman’ who stormed Capitol in horns should spend 51 months in prison, prosecutors say	NBC News	Nov 10
Scott Fairlamb gets longest sentence yet in Trump Capitol riot cases, and feds are seeking even more time for QAnon shaman Chansley	CNBC	Nov 10
Alabama man accused of hitting officer with flagpole on Jan. 6	NBC News	Nov 11
Former Marine who said ‘we’re going to take’ the Capitol on Jan. 6 sentenced	NBC News	Nov 12
“QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in January 6 attack	CBS News	Nov 17
Jan. 6 Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk to Trump Family: Report	Vice	Nov 24

December 2021

‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6	POLITICO	Dec 6
TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN – How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election	The Atlantic	Dec 6
Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup	The Guardian	Dec 10
Robert S. Palmer, attacked police at Capitol on Jan. 6, given 63 months in prison, longest sentence so far	The Washington Post	Dec 17
Man gets 46 months on U.S. Capitol riot charges, among the longest sentences yet	Reuters	Dec 20

Recent Rail Accidents : The DOT-111 READER	Dept of Transportation	Current
No Public Risk Following Minnesota Train Derailment	US News & World Report	Mar 16
2021 Hualien train derailment	Wikipedia	Apr 2
Mexico City rail overpass collapses onto road, killing at least 23	Reuters	May 3
Iowa train derailment and fire prompts evacuations in Sibley	CNN	May 17
Train derails and explodes into flames	BBC News	May 17
Pakistan train crash kills at least 40	The Washington Post	Jun 7
3 dead, over 50 injured in Amtrak train derailment	ABC News	Sep 26

Natural Events / Disasters

Fireball soars over North Carolina coast Friday: NASA	Charlotte Observer	Sep 27
Asteroids bigger than Pyramid of Giza to pass by Earth, NASA says	USA Today	Oct 12
What Are Your Options When you’ve Only Got Hours or Days to Prevent an Asteroid Impact?	Universe Today	Oct 19

Live Earthquakes Map	Global Incidents Map	Current
List of earthquakes in 2021 magnitude 4.0 or higher	Wikipedia	Current
2021 Fukushima earthquake	Wikipedia	Feb 13
Earthquake early warning system now covers entire West Coast	L.A. Times	May 4
Powerful Earthquake Causes Bridges to Collapse in China	The Weather Channel	Jun 5
California earthquakes near Mexico border: More than 600 rumbled through	CNN	Jun 6
Preliminary 3.5 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Gilroy	NBC Bay Area	Jun 14
M4.1 Earthquake Strikes Near Cobb: USGS	NBC Bay Area	Jun 14
M2.5 Earthquake Shakes Near San Jose: USGS	NBC Bay Area	Jun 15
Android Earthquake Alerts to widely launch next year	9to5Google	Jun 15
Magnitude 6.1 quake hits near Indonesia’s Moluccas islands	NBC News	Jun 16
M2.8 Earthquake Strikes Near Livermore: USGS	NBC Bay Area	Jun 22
5.8-magnitude quake shakes Peru coast; no reports of damage	ABC News	Jun 22
6.0 Earthquake in Peru Disrupts and Shakes a Live News Broadcast	Inside Edition	Jun 24
Strong 5.1 earthquake rattles Afghanistan’s capital	ABC News	Jun 24
2 earthquakes in 3 days rattle … Baltimore	CNN	Jun 27
Alaska Just Had an ‘Ice Quake’ Due to the Extreme Heat Wave	Gizmodo	Jun 29
3.8-magnitude earthquake hits Central California: USGS	ABC News	Jul 4
Earthquake shakes Taiwan’s capital Taipei	Reuters	Jul 7
California earthquake causes rock slide along highway	NBC News	Jul 8
California Earthquake: Lake Tahoe resident describes ‘roller’ wave on lake as quake hit near state line	ABC News	Jul 8
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near California-Nevada border	USA Today	Jul 8
Aftershocks from magnitude 6 quake rattle California, Nevada	ABC News	Jul 9
Tajikistan earthquake kills five-emergency committee	Reuters	Jul 10
Tajikistan earthquake kills 5, damages dozens of homes	Al Jazeera	Jul 10
New Madrid earthquake could happen again	ABC News	Jul 12
4.2 earthquake strikes northwest New Mexico	KOAT Action News	Jul 12
1,000 earthquakes rattle Yellowstone in July, USGS says	Idaho Statesman	Aug 3
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Philippines \| Philippines	The Guardian	Aug 11
At least 304 dead as Haiti struck by 7.2-magnitude earthquake \| Haiti	The Guardian	Aug 14
Haiti earthquake leaves more than 1,200 people dead	CNN	Aug 16
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease	Time	Aug 20
Mexico earthquake: 7.0 magnitude quake strikes the southwest	CNN	Sep 8
Powerful quake shakes southwest Mexico, one dead	Reuters	Sep 8
Earthquake slams Hawaii coast and rattle residents; no tsunami threat	USA Today	Oct 10
A swarm of more than 40 earthquakes in 24 hours is causing a buzz in the northwest US	CNN	Dec 8
Northern California earthquake: 6.2 magnitude quake shakes the state	CNN	Dec 20
Earthquake strikes Northern California, bringing significant shaking	USA Today	Dec 20

COVID-19 Map – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center	Johns Hopkins	Current
Global Incident Map Displaying Outbreaks Of All Varieties Of Diseases	Global Incidents	Real-time
Hurricane Katrina Failure Was a Preview for COVID Response	Time	Aug 26, 20
U.S. Covid Cases Found as Early as December 2019, Says Study	Bloomberg	Dec 1, 20
New study says U.S. COVID death toll is actually 900,000, far higher than reported.	Slate	May 7
America is finally winning its fight against the coronavirus	Axios	May 13

June 2021

Covid-19 Deaths This Year Have Already Eclipsed 2020’s Toll	Wall Street Journal	Jun 10
8 states see a rise in infection rates, 29% of Republicans don’t want vaccine – yet	USA Today	Jun 14
Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated, rising where they are not	The Washington Post	Jun 14
A Deadly Superfungus Has Emerged in Brazil, Aided by Covid-19	Gizmodo	Jun 15
Covid deaths: More than 600,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S.	CNBC	Jun 15
Delta, now a ‘variant of concern,’ accounts for 10 percent of new U.S. cases, CDC says	NBC News	Jun 16
Delta Coronavirus Variant May Be Strongest Threat to Vaccinated People	Business Insider	Jun 17
A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid	The Guardian	Jun 18
Kissing bug, Chagas disease: Doctors may be missing cases, study finds	USA Today	Jun 19
US coronavirus: Dangerous Covid-19 Delta variant appears to cause hospitalization spike in a Missouri city	CNN	Jun 22
‘Everything is collapsing’: Colombia battles third Covid wave amid unrest	The Guardian	Jun 22
Delta COVID-19 variant starting to dominate in S.Africa, scientists say	Reuters	Jun 26
Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID Vaccines May Provide Protection for Years	People	Jun 28
Coronavirus cases rise in a dozen states as experts warn Delta variant could fuel “dense” outbreaks	CBS News	Jun 28
As Delta Variant Spreads, Coronavirus Vaccination Gap Leaves Regions Vulnerable	Bloomberg	Jun 29
COVID outbreak at Illinois summer camp fueled by unvaccinated attendees	ABC News	Jun 29
Crossing Camp in Schuyler County: More than 80 teens and staffers at an Illinois summer camp got Covid-19	CNN	Jun 30
Covid-19 is killing Brazilian children at alarming rates. Many may be going undiagnosed	CNN	Jun 30
Common cold or Covid? Upper respiratory symptoms are growing more prevalent, docs say	NBC News	Jun 30
Delta variant’s wild spread raises fears, fresh scrutiny of CDC mask guidance	Ars Technica	Jun 30

July 2021

CDC Warns Doctors About a Melioidosis Outbreak With No Clear Origin	Gizmodo	Jul 1
CDC: Covid cases up 10 percent as ‘hypertransmissible’ delta variant spreads	NBC News	Jul 1
Local officials sound the alarm over another possible wave of Covid-19 infections	CNN	Jul 3
Billionaire Warren Buffett Predicts New Pandemic Worse Than Covid-19	Entrepreneur	Jul 2
US Covid-19: Rates of new cases are almost 3 times higher in states with low vaccination rates, new data shows	CNN	Jul 5
Biden ramps up vaccination push; states struggle with COVID variant	USA Today	Jul 6
Delta Variant Now Dominant COVID-19 Strain In The U.S., CDC Estimates	HuffPost	Jul 7
Covid Deaths Reach 4 Million as Vaccine Disparity Exposes Poor	Bloomberg	Jul 7
WHO warns of ‘epidemiological stupidity’ of early Covid reopening \| World Health Organization	The Guardian	Jul 7
In Maryland, every person who died of Covid-19 in June was unvaccinated. That’s not an aberration, experts say	CNN	Jul 7
Psaki encourages private companies to use vaccine passports: ‘That’s an innovative step that they will take’	Fox Business	Jul 7
Delta Variant: Vaccine Efficacy for Pfizer, Moderna, Astrazeneca Shots	Business Insider	Jul 7
Sydney’s Delta Outbreak Reaches Record High Despite Lockdown	Bloomberg	Jul 7
Where Is Delta Spreading? U.S. Midwest, Rockies as Trump Country Rejects Vaccine	Bloomberg	Jul 8
Olympics host city Tokyo bans spectators amid COVID-19 emergency	Reuters	Jul 8
Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play On	Kaiser Health News	Jul 8
Aerial images of expanding graves capture Indonesia’s deadliest days	Reuters	Jul 8
Enough: It’s time to make vaccinations mandatory (opinion)	CNN	Jul 8
Headache? Runny nose? These are some of the new top 5 Covid symptoms	CNBC	Jul 8
Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk	CNN	Jul 8
Lambda Variant Emerges, Experts Fear Could Spread Fast, Resist Vaccine	Business Insider	Jul 8
Why The Delta Variant Is So Contagious: A New Study Sheds Light : Goats and Soda	NPR	Jul 8
Pfizer, BioNTech to seek authorization for COVID booster shot as Delta variant spreads	Reuters	Jul 9
Missouri Covid-19: A couple say they dragged their feet on getting the vaccine. Then they got sick	CNN	Jul 9
US coronavirus: With an uptick in cases, there is growing alarm. ‘We’ve seen almost an entire takeover in the Delta variant,’ one state official says	CNN	Jul 10
Covid: Woman aged 90 died with double variant infection	BBC News	Jul 11
Infections up in 42 states; CPAC attendees cheer low vaccination rate	USA Today	Jul 11
Young Americans Aren’t Getting Vaccinated, Jeopardizing Covid-19 Fight	Wall Street Journal	Jul 11
Belgian woman infected with two Covid variants at the same time	CNBC	Jul 12
New COVID infections rise almost 50% in US; warning about J&J vaccine	USA Today	Jul 12
For the U.S. to Reach Herd Immunity We Need Vaccine Mandates	Time	Jul 12
COVID-19 case count spikes hit almost every state	The Hill	Jul 12
Covid-19 cases are surging in 45 states. In one hot spot, hospitalized patients are younger than ever, doctor says	CNN	Jul 13
Catt Sadler Is Sick with COVID After Getting Fully Vaccinated	People	Jul 13
Covid outbreak among vaccinated Vegas hospital workers underscores Delta risks	The Guardian	Jul 13
7 Children in Intensive Care, 2 on Life Support, in Mississippi as State Sees Surge in Delta Variant Cases	People	Jul 13
U.S. Covid-19 Case Counts Have Doubled in Recent Weeks	Wall Street Journal	Jul 14
Covid hot spots hospitals: ‘We are seeing people passing quicker than before’	CNN	Jul 14
Coronavirus strains’ spread boosted by superspreader events	NBC News	Jul 14
Delta variant accounts for 58% of infections; COVID cases, deaths rise	USA Today	Jul 14
US Drug Overdoses Killed Over 93,000 People In 2020	Buzzfeed	Jul 14
WHO warns of ‘strong likelihood’ of new, possibly more dangerous variants – ABC News	ABC News	Jul 15
US Coronavirus: Covid-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease, experts say, as rising cases threaten unvaccinated	CNN	Jul 17
Two South African soccer players 1st athletes residing in Tokyo Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19	ESPN	Jul 17
Delta Variant Helps Push Covid-19 Cases Higher in Every State	Wall Street Journal	Jul 19
Dad shares warning after kids allegedly contract COVID-19 from unvaccinated relative	GMA	Jul 19
Lambda variant of COVID identified at Houston hospital. What to know	USA Today	Jul 21
Alabama Doctor Shares Emotional Message About Treating Dying COVID Patients	People	Jul 21
Delta variant: Here’s why it’s spreading so much faster	CNN	Jul 21
5-year-old Georgia boy dies of Covid as cases surge nationwide	NBC News	Jul 21
We need to prepare for a plant pandemic that could hit our food system	Fast Company	Jul 21
Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers	POLITICO	Jul 22
Then the Birds Began to Die	The Atlantic	Jul 22
COVID cases are up 55% across the U.S. and it’s not because of “breakthrough” infections	Axios	Jul 22
CDC warns this is ‘pivotal moment’ in fight against delta variant	The Washington Post	Jul 22
Three states are seeing about 40% of the country’s new Covid-19 cases	CNN	Jul 23
CDC shares ‘pivotal discovery’ on Covid-19 breakthrough infections that led to new mask guidance	CNN	Jul 30
Florida Leads U.S. in Covid-19 Cases as Hospitalizations Surge	Wall Street Journal	Jul 25
The Delta Variant Upends the World’s Pandemic Response	Wall Street Journal	Jul 25
Family of Tennessee talk-radio host urges vaccine after covid-19 battle	The Washington Post	Jul 26
‘A tipping point’: Governments, agencies, health workers move to require coronavirus vaccines	The Washington Post	Jul 26
Covid-19 pandemic in the US is ‘spiraling out of control’ due to unvaccinated people, former surgeon general says	CNN	Jul 27
Sydney Lockdown Extended Four Weeks as Delta Surge Worsens	Bloomberg	Jul 27
Pfizer data suggest third dose of Covid-19 vaccine ‘strongly’ boosts protection against Delta variant	CNN	Jul 28
A coronavirus variant first identified in Colombia has reached Florida. Here’s what you need to know.	The Washington Post	Jul 28
Florida mother has been living in her teen daughter’s ICU room for days, praying she survives Covid-19	CNN	Jul 29
Disneyland and Disney World Reinstate Mask Mandates on Friday	Gizmodo	Jul 29
American workers are facing increasing pressure to get vaccinated against Covid-19	CNN	Jul 30
CDC document warns Delta variant appears to spread as easily as chicken pox and cause more severe infection	CNN	Jul 30

August 2021

Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients are filling up hospitals, putting the care of others at risk, doctors say	CNN	Aug 1
All 50 states report rising vaccination rates as COVID infections surge, data shows	ABC News	Aug 3
DeSantis doubles down as Florida again breaks COVID record	ABC News	Aug 3
New York City to require vaccination proof for indoor activities	USA Today	Aug 3
Here are the companies mandating vaccines for all or some employees	NBC News	Aug 3
A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say	Newsweek	Aug 4
Covid-19 Patients Overwhelm Busy Hospitals as Delta Variant Spreads	Wall Street Journal	Aug 4
Is delta plus worse than the delta variant? Latest research	Fast Company	Aug 4
Moderna says its COVID-19 shot maintains high efficacy through 6 months	Reuters	Aug 5
Moderna: Covid vaccine booster produces robust response against delta	CNBC	Aug 5
Nearly 72K children test positive in the past week; heart problems associated with vaccines are uncommon, study shows	USA Today	Aug 5
Coronavirus Antibodies Detected in Wild White-Tailed Deer in Several U.S. States	Smithsonian Magazine	Aug 5
Covid cases rise with delta variant, but deaths have not risen at same rate	Vox	Aug 5
Covid: Charts show how far delta variant has spread around the world	CNBC	Aug 5
COVID-19 Infection Rates in Kids Rising in FL, TX; Some Too Young for Vaccine	Business Insider	Aug 5
Moderna recommends third Covid booster shot as delta variant spreads	NBC News	Aug 6
We are failing at COVID at exactly the wrong time. Time for some truth	USA Today	Aug 6
Early signs COVID-19 vaccines may not stop Delta transmission, England says	Reuters	Aug 6
Yes, the Pandemic Is Bad Again	The Atlantic	Aug 6
Report: FDA to Unveil Booster Dose Strategy by Early September	Gizmodo	Aug 6
Amazon resumes mask mandate in warehouses amid rising Covid cases	CNBC	Aug 6
Delta variant and viral load: What scientists are watching in the Covid pandemic	NBC News	Aug 7
Lambda coronavirus variant: What experts are learning	CNN	Aug 7
Emergency notification system used to warn people of ‘dire’ Covid-19 situation in Austin, Texas	CNN	Aug 9
Pentagon announces COVID-19 vaccines will be mandatory for troops by mid-September	CBS News	Aug 10
Florida, Texas schools defy governors’ bans on mask mandates as COVID cases soar	Reuters	Aug 10
Delta variant renders herd immunity from Covid ‘mythical’	The Guardian	Aug 10
New data on coronavirus vaccine effectiveness against Delta raises concern among Biden administration	Axios	Aug 11
CDC says pregnant people should get the coronavirus vaccine	The Washington Post	Aug 11
COVID cases, hospitalizations soar amid delta fueled wave	Miami Herald	Aug 11
Florida mom, 30, dies of COVID-19 days after giving birth	USA Today	Aug 11
Florida hospitals overrun as state fights one of worst Covid outbreaks in U.S.	CNBC	Aug 11
Over 1 Million People Have Gotten Unauthorized Covid-19 Booster Shots: Report	Gizmodo	Aug 11
Texas Coronavirus Politics Are Dangerously Broken – Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus	The Atlantic	Aug 12
‘We’re going to see a lot of deaths’: Covid leaves Mississippi hospitals at brink of failure	The Guardian	Aug 12
The delta variant of COVID-19 is more contagious for children. Is it making them sicker, too?	USA Today	Aug 12
COVID Kills 4 Teachers in One Day in Same Florida School District	The Daily Beast	Aug 12
Unvaccinated people angry as they face more Covid restrictions in future	CNBC	Aug 13
Wildfire smoke associated with increase in severe COVID-19 cases and death, new research suggests	ABC News	Aug 13
Wildfire smoke linked to higher COVID-19 death rates	National Geographic	Aug 13
As Children’s COVID Cases Surge, There’s Another Virus On The Rise	NPR	Aug 14
Biden administration to announce most Americans will need coronavirus booster shots	The Washington Post	Aug 16
New Zealand enters nationwide lockdown over one Covid case	BBC News	Aug 17
Whopping 94% of Adults in England Have Covid-19 Antibodies	Gizmodo	Aug 19
“We are set on a path that looks disastrous”: Alabama hospitals near collapse	Ars Technica	Aug 19
Coronavirus Watch: US deaths nearly double in two weeks	USA Today	Aug 20
Cruises and COVID-19: CDC updates guidance for high-risk travelers	USA Today	Aug 20
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease	Time	Aug 20
Oregon COVID-19 patient unable to get ICU bed dies	ABC News	Aug 20
Mississippi orders coronavirus-infected individuals to isolate at home or face up to 5 years in prison	Fox News	Aug 21
China Hits Zero Covid Cases With a Month of Draconian Curbs	Bloomberg	Aug 22
FDA grants full approval to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine	NBC News	Aug 23
Vaccine mandates: Some colleges will kick out unvaccinated students	USA Today	Aug 24
Unvaccinated Pregnant Nurse and Her Unborn Baby Die of COVID	People	Aug 24
COVID vaccine efficacy wanes amid delta variant surge, CDC study shows	USA Today	Aug 24
If Covid vaccine refusers are turned away at hospitals and doctor offices, is that ethical?	NBC News	Aug 24
Johnson & Johnson vaccine booster shot prompts large increase in immune response, company says	CNN	Aug 25
Hospitals are running out of ICU beds as severe COVID cases soar	Axios	Aug 25
U.S. data show rising ‘breakthrough’ infections among fully vaccinated	Reuters	Aug 25
Fully Vaccinated People Less Infectious, Clear COVID Quicker: Study	Business Insider	Aug 25
Vaccine mandates for all Illinois teachers, health care workers, college students	Chicago Tribune	Aug 26
New Study Confirms Its Much Safer to Get Vaccinated Than to Catch Covid-19	Gizmodo	Aug 26
Largest Study of Lingering COVID-19 Effects Suggests at Looming Problem	Time	Aug 26
States Pull Back on Covid Data Even Amid Delta Surge	Kaiser Health News	Aug 27
Unvaccinated, unmasked elementary school teacher infects 22 students and four parents with COVID-19	USA Today	Aug 28
Georgia: Anti-Vaxx Police Captain Who Took Ivermectin Dies of COVID-19	Business Insider	Aug 28
Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns	LA Times	Aug 28
Ivermectin debacle exposes the hypocrisy of anti-vaccine followers	CNN Video	Aug 29
Georgia Professor Quits During Class After Student Defies His Mask Policy	HuffPost	Aug 29
First, surges in US Covid-19 infections led to shortages of hospital beds and staff. Now it’s oxygen	CNN	Aug 30
After A COVID Death, Others’ Blame And Shame Make Grief Even Worse	NPR	Aug 30
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospitalization drops among oldest Americans	CBS News	Aug 31
A tale of two governors: COVID outcomes in Florida and Connecticut show that leadership matters	Fortune	Aug 31

September 2021

These 5 states have less than 10% of ICU beds left as Covid-19 overwhelms hospitals	CNN	Sep 1
Near-Capacity Children’s Hospitals Plead For Federal Help	NPR	Sep 1
What to Know About Mu, a New Covid Variant Detected in 39 Countries	Barron’s	Sep 1
Moderna Asks FDA To Authorize A Booster Shot Of Its COVID-19 Vaccine.	NPR	Sep 1
Israeli coronavirus vaccine booster data gives the U.S. hope	Axios	Sep 2
Study shows masks lower symptomatic COVID-19 infections	Fast Company	Sep 2
More than 500,000 children tested positive for Covid-19 in 3 weeks	CNN	Sep 3
Connally Independent School District closed all its schools after two teachers died from Covid-19	CNN	Sep 3
Florida reports deadliest Covid surge since pandemic began	NBC News	Sep 3
America’s in a COVID funk	Axios	Sep 3
Mu variant: the latest ‘variant of interest’	Fast Company	Sep 3
More kids hospitalized with Covid-19 in states with lower vaccination rates, CDC report finds	CNN	Sep 3
The Masks Were Working All Along	The Atlantic	Sep 4
COVID-19: Mu Variant Detected in 47 US States and DC	Business Insider	Sep 4
15 Miami-Dade Public School Staff Members Die Of COVID In Just 10 Days	HuffPost	Sep 4
Why We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid	POLITICO	Sep 6
LA County’s Health Department Has Detected at Least 167 Cases of Mu Variant	NBC News	Sep 6
Idaho Activates Crisis Protocol to Battle Surging COVID-19 Cases	Business Insider	Sep 7
Israel was a vaccination poster child. Now its COVID surge shows the world what’s coming next	Fortune	Sep 7
Children now make up more than a quarter of the weekly Covid-19 cases, pediatrician group says	CNN Health	Sep 8
The Surprisingly Strong Supreme Court Precedent Supporting Vaccine Mandates	POLITICO	Sep 8
Covid-19 testing system struggles to keep up with Delta demand	POLITICO	Sep 8
Idaho begins rationing medical care amid COVID surge	Axios	Sep 8
Biden announces sweeping vaccine mandates affecting millions of workers	NBC News	Sep 9
U.S. averaging 1,500 COVID deaths a day for first time since March	Axios	Sep 9
Our best shot at controlling COVID: Data-driven mask mandates amplify protection of vaccines	USA Today	Sep 9
We conducted the largest study on masks and covid-19: They work	The Washington Post	Sep 9
L.A. school district approves student COVID vaccine mandate	LA Times	Sep 9
COVID Death Toll Among 9/11 First Responders and Survivors Nears Grim Milestone	The City	Sep 9
Attacking anti-vaccine movement, Biden mandates widespread COVID shots, tests	Reuters	Sep 10
Idaho Hospitals Are Overwhelmed, But People Remain Skeptical Of Vaccines	NPR	Sep 12
Delta variant vaccinated vs. unvaccinated seen in CDC chart	Fast Company	Sep 13
Texas Embalmer Shares Nightmare COVID Experiences: ‘Unlike Anything I’ve Seen Before’	HuffPost	Sep 13
US hospitals and ICUs are full of Covid-19 patients, forcing care rationing	Vox	Sep 14
Moderna’s COVID vaccine may have the effectiveness edge over Pfizer	Axios	Sep 15
A Boy Went to a COVID-Swamped ER. He Waited for Hours. Then His Appendix Burst.	ProPublica	Sep 15
Majority of Americans believe worst COVID-19 outbreak is yet to come: report	The Hill	Sep 15
72% of Americans Know Someone Killed or Hospitalized by Covid-19, Pew Poll Finds	Gizmodo	Sep 15
Covid restrictions poll: Most Americans believe the health benefits of Covid-19 restrictions are worth the costs, polling shows	CNN	Sep 15
1 in every 500 US residents have died of Covid-19	CNN	Sep 16
Moderna analysis: Those vaccinated last year twice more likely to get COVID-19 than those jabbed recently	Fox News	Sep 16
China says it’s fully vaccinated 1 billion people for COVID-19	Fortune	Sep 16
Living with Covid: Five countries that have decided it’s time to open up	CNN	Sep 16
BBride-to-Be, 29, Who Was Fearful of Getting Vaccinated Dies of COVID: ‘Misinformation Killed Her’	People	Sep 16
“The situation is dire”: Idaho activates crisis standards statewide over COVID-19	Idaho Statesman	Sep 17
670,000 flags on the National Mall pay tribute to America’s devastating COVID-19 losses	National Geographic	Sep 17
Girl Developed Rare Disease That Left Her Paralyzed After Getting COVID	People	Sep 17
Constitution allows Biden to mandate COVID vaccine. Federal government can do even more.	USA Today	Sep 18
The days of full COVID coverage are over. Insurers restore copays, hitting patients with big bills.	The Washington Post	Sep 18
Florida Dad Finally Gets Life-Saving COVID Treatment After Family Reached Out to 169 Hospitals	People	Sep 20
Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop COVID	Vanity Fair	Sep 20
New COVID Variant A.23.1 Ran Rampant While We Weren’t Looking	The Daily Beast	Sep 21
Covid-19 Has Killed as Many Americans as the 1918 Spanish Flu	Gizmodo	Sep 21
‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic	STAT News	Sep 21
COVID deaths surge in Alabama, after state reports more deaths than births in 2020	ABC News	Sep 22
“This virus is an evil, evil thing”: Kentucky health care workers overwhelmed by surge of COVID patients	CBS News	Sep 22
COVID deaths 10 times July rate; panel deciding who gets booster shots	USA Today	Sep 22
Why Virginia Hit With Severe COVID Cases Despite High Vaccination Rate	Business Insider	Sep 22
The real reason this pandemic is the deadliest to ever hit the US (opinion)	CNN	Sep 22
Breakthrough COVID Cases in Massachusetts: More Than 30,000 Now Reported	NBC News	Sep 22
Severe COVID-19 may trigger autoimmune conditions; New variants cause more virus in the air	Reuters	Sep 22
Alaska, overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, adopts crisis standards for hospitals	Reuters	Sep 22
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Booster Receives FDA Authorization : Coronavirus Updates	NPR	Sep 22
At an Overrun ICU, ‘the Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways’	Kaiser Health News	Sep 22
No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People	The Atlantic	Sep 23
US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout	The Guardian	Sep 23
America’s stark divide in hospitalizations and vaccinations, mapped	The Washington Post	Sep 23
What Is the R.1 COVID-19 Variant? What We Know So Far	Health	Sep 23
From Alpha to Epsilon: Consortium study illuminates surfaces of Spike most resistant to antibody escape	Medical Xpress	Sep 23
‘Vigilante treatments’: Anti-vaccine groups push people to leave ICUs	NBC News	Sep 24
A daily pill to treat Covid could be just months away, scientists say	NBC News	Sep 24
Preliminary research finds that even mild cases of COVID-19 leave a mark on the brain – but it’s not yet clear how long it lasts	Entrepreneur	Sep 24
Cases of rare MIS-C condition for kids have tripled in California since February	NBC News	Sep 24
New Johnson & Johnson data shows second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19 – but one dose is still strong against delta variant	The Conversation	Sep 25
These 18 states have still not vaccinated at least half of their residents	CNN	Sep 25
More hospitals forced to ration care amid delta surge	The Hill	Sep 26
Anti-Vaxxers Are Gargling Iodine to Try and Stop COVID-19, Say Reports (REALLY STUPID)	Insider	Sep 26
Protein found on infected cells protects virus from immune system; remdesivir helps prevent hospitalization	Reuters	Sep 27
We’ve reached the ‘Red Covid’ phase of the pandemic	CNN Politics	Sep 28
Here’s How Much Face Masks (Still) Reduce Your Risk Of Catching Covid	HuffPost	Sep 28
Russia reports worst single-day Covid-19 death toll since start of pandemic	CNN	Sep 28
Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six months after infection	The Guardian	Sep 28
Long Covid is a bigger problem than we thought	CNN	Sep 29
We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic	The Atlantic	Sep 29
‘Never-ending nightmare’: The hospitals where the ICU occupancy stayed high	NBC News	Sep 29
YouTube cracks down on anti-vax misinformation	Axios	Sep 29
Coronavirus can transform pancreas cell function; certain genes may protect an in f ected person’s spouse	Reuters	Sep 29
Health workers get panic buttons as COVID deniers get violent	Ars Technica	Sep 29
Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas	NBC News	Sep 30
Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks–and Where to Get Them	Scientific American	Sep 30
US hospitals outfitting nurses with panic buttons amid rise in assaults	The Guardian	Sep 30
Covid pill works against all variants including Delta, manufacturer says	The Independent	Sep 30
Experts: Drug-Resistant Infections Rising in the US As COVID Patients Overwhelm Hospitals	Business Insider	Sep 30
105-Year-Old Woman, Who Survived 1918 Flu Pandemic, Dead from COVID	People	Sep 30
A year later, 45% of COVID patients in Wuhan still have symptoms	Ars Technica	Sep 30

October 2021

Merck Pill Intended to Treat Covid-19 Succeeds in Key Study	Wall Street Journal	Oct 1
Why anti-vaxxers embrace ivermectin and don’t trust Covid-19 vaccines	Vox	Oct 1
700,000 Americans now dead from COVID-19—but deaths reveal deep disparities	National Geographic	Oct 1
Newsom sets COVID vaccine mandate across California schools	LA Times	Oct 1
Vaccinated people are less likely to spread Covid, new research finds	NBC News	Oct 1
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 5 million as Delta variant sweeps the world	Reuters	Oct 2
Brazil’s Tragic Ivermectin Frenzy Is a Warning to the US, Experts Say	Business Insider	Oct 4
New Zealand Officially Abandons Covid-Zero Strategy	Gizmodo	Oct 4
Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Loses Effectiveness Against Infection Over Time. What To Know.	Barron’s	Oct 5
3,741 New Breakthrough Cases in Mass., 46 More Deaths in Vaccinated People	NBC	Oct 5
‘It’s Like There’s No Covid’: Booster Shots Bring Tel Aviv Back to Life	Bloomberg CityLab	Oct 5
Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider—now they’re fired	Ars Technica	Oct 5
NY’s Northwell Health Fires 1,400 Staff Over Vaccine Mandate	Business Insider	Oct 5
WHO recommends broad rollout of world’s first malaria vaccine	Stat	Oct 6
CDC Director: Human behavior will determine when the Covid-19 pandemic ends	CNN	Oct 7
Pfizer seeks FDA authorization of Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11	CNN	Oct 7
Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine: Studies confirm waning immunity from vaccine	CNN	Oct 7
Organ Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist	Kaiser Health News	Oct 8
These Southern states have fully vaccinated less than a third of eligible adolescents.	CNN	Oct 8
What Can Convince People to Just Get Vaccinated Already?	Wired	Oct 8
No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination: An explainer	Ars Technica	Oct 8
More people are getting Covid-19 vaccine boosters than first shots	CNN	Oct 8
Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, Health Ministry says	Reuters	Oct 8
Idaho hospitals overrun by unvaccinated COVID patients	CBS News	Oct 8
Vaccine mandate: Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not complied as Pentagon deadlines near	The Washington Post	Oct 10
State leaders unmoved by college outrage over lax Covid rules	Politico	Oct 10
Sydney ends coronavirus lockdown after 106 days	Yahoo	Oct 10
Covid pill: Merck asks FDA to authorize antiviral for emergency use	CNBC	Oct 11
Covid-19 vaccine mandates work, Dr. Anthony Fauci says	CNN	Oct 11
AstraZeneca antibody cocktail study shows success treating COVID-19	Reuters	Oct 11
Another Global Pandemic Is Spreading—Among Pigs	Wired	Oct 12
Texas Bans Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Huge Win for Virus	Gizmodo	Oct 12
Mothers sue after children catch Covid at Wisconsin schools with no mandates	The Guardian	Oct 12
The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory	The New Yorker	Oct 12
‘I’m getting compassion fatigue’: My parents said they’d rather quit their jobs and lose everything than get the COVID-19 vaccine	MSN	Oct 13
U.S. COVID-19 vaccine rates up thanks to mandates; cases and deaths down -officials	Reuters	Oct 13
The pandemic has driven many Americans to delay health care : Shots – Health News	NPR	Oct 14
FDA panel unanimously recommends Moderna Covid booster shots for at-risk adults	CNBC	Oct 14
Analysis: With boosters, masks and Green Pass, Israel sees a COVID-19 wave in retreat	Reuters	Oct 14
FDA advisory panel votes 19-0 to endorse booster dose of J&J vaccine	STAT	Oct 15
Are cloth masks effective for Covid? Surgical masks vs. KN95 explained	CNBC	Oct 15
In the calm before the superbug storm, the world needs to prepare	STAT	Oct 15
All 3 COVID-19 vaccines still produce strong immune response 8 months later, new study finds	ABC News	Oct 15
CDC releases 2021 holiday guidance to prevent spread of COVID-19	ABC News	Oct 15
Vaccine mandates stoked fears of labor shortages. But hospitals say they’re working.	The Washington Post	Oct 16
Covid-stricken states still struggle months after Biden’s surge	Politico	Oct 18
‘Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit’: What If mRNA Vaccines Could Cure Cancer?	The Atlantic	Oct 18
North East school moves pupils to e-learning and reinstates masks as Covid cases cause staff issues	Chronicle	Oct 18
CDC: Unvaccinated are over 11 times more likely to die from COVID	Axios	Oct 18
How to confront COVID-19’s toll on kids’ mental health	National Geographic	Oct 18
COVID vaccine mix-and-matching gains momentum	Axios	Oct 18
Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic	The Guardian	Oct 18
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle	CNN Politics	Oct 19
CDC travel advisories: Singapore placed at Level 4, ‘highest risk’ for Covid	CNN Travel	Oct 19
Chances of getting COVID-19 after a vaccine: CDC tool shows breakthrough cases for Pfizer, Moderna, J&J	Fast Company	Oct 19
US coronavirus: Seniors are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. So far, 1 in 7 have gotten a booster shot of vaccine	CNN	Oct 19
Covid-19: New mutation of Delta variant under close watch in UK	BBC News	Oct 19
Natural immunity is good. Getting vaccinated after being sick with COVID-19 is better.	USA Today	Oct 19
Why even fully vaccinated older people are at high risk for severe COVID-19	National Geographic	Oct 19
Cancer Survivor Had COVID-19 for Almost a Year, Longest Case to Date	Business Insider	Oct 20
US Covid-19: Booster shots could soon be recommended for people as young as 40, source says	CNN	Oct 20
Unvaccinated people should expect to catch COVID-19 every 16 months	The Hill	Oct 20
Scientists search for cause of mysterious Covid-related inflammation in children	NBC News	Oct 20
Climate Change Threatens to Spread Viruses Through an Unprepared World	Bloomberg	Oct 20
FDA authorizes booster shots of Moderna, Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines	STAT	Oct 20
Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make it worse	NPR	Oct 20
FDA clears Moderna and J&J Covid vaccine boosters, allows ‘mix and match’ shots	CNBC	Oct 20
Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused of “crimes against humanity” over COVID response	Ars Technica	Oct 20
The delta variant has a mutation: what we know so far	CNBC	Oct 21
Pfizer booster has 95.6% efficacy against COVID, large study shows	Axios	Oct 21
Are US booster shots sapping the world’s vaccine supply?	Popular Science	Oct 21
India’s Billion Covid Shots: Race Now to Vaccinate All Adults	Bloomberg	Oct 21
COVID cases and deaths keep falling as the Delta wave recedes	Axios	Oct 21
Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Surviving Nearly All Court Challenges	Wall Street Journal	Oct 22
Moscow to Enter Lockdown Next Week as Covid-19 Cases Skyrocket	Gizmodo	Oct 22
Northern states see uptick in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations as weather gets colder	ABC News	Oct 22
‘A modern miracle’: Experts marvel at CDC data showing fully vaccinated make up less than 1% of COVID deaths	USA Today	Oct 22
When does Covid-19 go from “pandemic” to “endemic”?	Vox	Oct 22
How worried should we be about new coronavirus mutations?	The Hill	Oct 22
Mix-and-match Covid vaccine boosters explained: Pfizer, Moderna and J&J – Which is best for you?	CNBC	Oct 22
FDA: Benefits of COVID-19 vaccine for children far outweigh risks, FDA says	Axios	Oct 23
Biden has new chance to rein in pandemic at vaccine turning point	CNN	Oct 23
As Russia’s COVID-19 toll surges, a Siberian hospital struggles to cope	Reuters	Oct 23
Ivermectin Shows That ‘Follow the Science’ Doesn’t Work When the Science Is This Bad	The Atlantic	Oct 23
Endemic Covid-19 Has Arrived in Portugal. This Is What It Looks Like.	Wall Street Journal	Oct 24
Covid update: How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America	CNN	Oct 24
Doctors are often unaware of the only treatment for early Covid-19	CNN	Oct 25
Permafrost Thaw Could Unleash Pathogens and Radioactive Waste	Gizmodo	Oct 25
ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients — but many don’t even have COVID	NPR	Oct 26
COVID card on your iPhone? You can now add it to Apple Wallet	USA Today	Oct 26
Merck’s Covid-19 Pill Licensed to U.N.-Backed Nonprofit to Increase Global Supplies	Wall Street Journal	Oct 27
COVID cases fall by 20%	Axios	Oct 28
Antidepressant Fluvoxamine Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization	Wall Street Journal	Oct 28
A quintessential American trait is responsible for spreading Covid-19 — study	Inverse	Oct 29
COVID’s endgame: Scientists have a clue about where SARS-CoV-2 is headed	NPR	Oct 29
FDA authorizes Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11	STAT	Oct 29
Supreme Court declines to block Maine health care employee vaccine mandate	CNN Politics	Oct 29
America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick.	ProPublica	Oct 29
COVID-19 has killed 5 million people—and the pandemic is far from over	National Geographic	Oct 31
Delta Surge of Covid-19 Recedes, Leaving Winter Challenge Ahead	Wall Street Journal	Oct 31

November 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed 5 million people around the world, and officials see another surge coming	NPR	Nov 1
China Locks 30,000 Visitors Inside Shanghai Disneyland After One Guest Got Covid-19	Wall Street Journal	Nov 1
New York: 9,000 public workers put on unpaid leave for refusing Covid vaccine	The Guardian	Nov 1
Covid’s casualties: How the pandemic shifted South and hit a younger and whiter population	NBC News	Nov 1
A potentially faster-spreading COVID Delta-plus variant, AY.4.2, has been spotted in 8 states	CBS News	Nov 2
COVID-19 still rages, but some U.S. states reject federal funds to help	Reuters	Nov 2
Immunity from both vaccines, COVID-19 infection last at least six months: CDC	The Hill	Nov 2
7 Signs of Long COVID, Says Dr. Fauci	Eat This, Not That	Nov 2
CDC Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine in Young Children	Wall Street Journal	Nov 2
Covid-19 vaccines for kids could change the pandemic at home and at school	Vox	Nov 2
CDC advisers recommend Pfizer’s low-dose COVID vaccine for kids : Shots – Health News	NPR	Nov 2
Russia moves to CDC’s highest risk travel category	CNN Travel	Nov 2
Covid: Germany enveloped in ‘massive’ pandemic of the unvaccinated	The Guardian	Nov 3
New Biden vaccine requirements for 100 million workers are here	NPR	Nov 4
COVID cases fall by 20%, deaths down 15%	Axios	Nov 4
Patients went into the hospital for care. After testing positive there for COVID-19, some never came out	USA Today	Nov 4
COVID is still crushing parts of the U.S. as the holiday season approaches	NPR	Nov 4
Experimental Pfizer pill prevents Covid hospitalizations and deaths	STAT	Nov 5
Pfizer says its experimental Covid-19 pill reduces risk of hospitalization, death	CNN	Nov 5
He survived severe Covid-19; now he’s getting vaccinated, but losing friends	CNN	Nov 5
More people are getting COVID vaccine boosters than first shots	NPR	Nov 5
What to know about the new OSHA vaccine mandate, and how it will impact you	ABC News	Nov 5
How the rise of antivirals may change the course of the pandemic	National Geographic	Nov 5
Pandemic travel news: Russia and China fight record Covid outbreaks	CNN Travel	Nov 6
New COVID vaccine design is easier to manufacture, doesn’t need cold storage	Medical Express	Nov 6
Hyenas at Denver zoo catch Covid in world first	The Guardian	Nov 6
He nearly died from Covid after choosing not to get vaccinated. Later, he returned to apologize to the medical staff	CNN	Nov 8
What the end of the pandemic could look like	CNN	Nov 8
Germany’s COVID-19 infection rate hits record high \| Coronavirus pandemic News	Al Jazeera	Nov 8
Nigeria unlikely to reach ‘impossible’ 40% Covid vaccine target	The Guardian	Nov 8
Zika virus: India’s Kanpur city on alert after 89 cases reported	BBC News	Nov 8
“Don’t wait”: WHO urges U.S. to pay attention as surging COVID cases flood Europe’s hospitals again	CBS News	Nov 8
Coronavirus infections rise in northern states, Mountain West, as holidays near	The Washington Post	Nov 10
Is Covid’s winter surge already here? Experts warn the pandemic isn’t over	NBC News	Nov 10
Federal judge says Texas governor’s ban on school mask mandates violates Americans with Disabilities Act	POLITICO	Nov 10
How SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer could alter the course of the pandemic	NPR	Nov 10
Covid vaccine booster shots for all adults could be here by Thanksgiving — and new data says you should get one immediately	CNBC	Nov 10
California police officer dies after missing COVID vaccine deadline	USA Today	Nov 10
America’s COVID future has arrived	Axios	Nov 11
Booster shots are most popular in poorly vaccinated states where coronavirus rages	The Washington Post	Nov 11
This COVID Winter May Cause Fewer Deaths yet Still Bring a Surge	Scientific American	Nov 11
Why COVID cases are surging in states with high vaccination rates — and what it means for the winter ahead	Yahoo News	Nov 11
Clues to what causes long COVID are starting to emerge	NPR	Nov 12
Covid misinformation spreads because so many Americans are awful at math	The Washington Post	Nov 12
California officer dies of Covid while on leave for missing vaccine deadline	NBC News	Nov 12
COVID cases surging in several states as holidays loom	CBS News	Nov 12
Covid is surging in Europe. Experts say it’s a warning for the U.S.	NBC news	Nov 14
Pfizer Covid Vaccine Generated Most Antibodies in Comparative Study	Bloomberg	Nov 14
Colorado Coronavirus: State announces vaccine mandate for certain indoor events as Mountain West states grapple with surge	CNN	Nov 15
Germany could make COVID test or vaccine mandatory for public transport	Reuters	Nov 15
Covid cases surge in Europe, countries reintroduce lockdowns	NBC News	Nov 15
Austria and Germany impose restrictions on unvaccinated people as COVID cases surge	NPR	Nov 15
Fast spreading bird flu puts Europe and Asia on alert	The Guardian	Nov 15
Explainer: Delta dominates the world, but scientists watch for worrisome offspring	Reuters	Nov 16
Pfizer applies for emergency authorization Tuesday for its Covid-19 pill	STAT	Nov 16
States move ahead on booster shots for all adults without federal guidelines	The Washington Post	Nov 16
Families fight over covid vaccines as Thanksgiving approaches	The Washington Post	Nov 16
Thanksgiving COVID alarm as cases rise 20%	Axios	Nov 17
‘Zero-Covid is not going to happen’: experts predict a steep rise in US cases this winter	The Guardian	Nov 18
FDA clears Moderna’s and Pfizer’s Covid vaccine booster shots for all U.S. adults	CNBC	Nov 19
Austria infuriates many with full lockdown as Germany warns it may follow suit	Reuters	Nov 19
Flu season: What outbreaks on college campuses tell us	NBC News	Nov 19
Unvaccinated-Only Lockdowns Come to Europe	The Atlantic	Nov 20
WHO: Another 500,000 people in Europe could die of Covid by March	The Guardian	Nov 20
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020’s	Wall Street Journal	Nov 20
How Will the COVID Pills Change the Pandemic?	The New Yorker	Nov 21
Stubborn Covid surges signal bleak winter	POLITICO	Nov 22
Treatments will change the pandemic, but they can’t end it alone	The Washington Post	Nov 22
COVID surge underway with daily cases already above 93K ahead of holiday	Ars Technica	Nov 22
Covid deaths in Europe to top 2 million by March, says WHO	The Guardian	Nov 23
CDC warns against travel to Germany, Denmark as COVID cases surge	USA Today	Nov 23
US hospitals prepare for influx of Covid patients as millions travel for Thanksgiving	The Guardian	Nov 24
Scientists warn of new Covid variant with high number of mutations	The Guardian	Nov 24
Why are coronavirus cases and hospitalizations on the rise in the US?	ABC News	Nov 25
WHO calls special meeting to discuss new Covid variant from South Africa	CNBC	Nov 25
Omicron Identified as Covid-19 ‘Variant of Concern,’ Triggering Global Fears	Wall Street Journal	Nov 26
WHO labels new Covid strain as ‘variant of concern’ amid global alarm, names it ‘Omicron’	NBC News	Nov 26
Omicron Coronavirus Variant Raises Questions Among Scientists	Wall Street Journal	Nov 26
Michigan’s Covid-19 cases are soaring, so feds are sending doctors and nurses to help strained hospitals	CNN	Nov 26
Dutch: Some of the 61 COVID cases from South Africa flights are new variant	Reuters	Nov 27
Omicron covid variant sparks further travel bans and restrictions	The Washington Post	Nov 27
What to know about the omicron variant, a new Covid-19 mutation	Vox	Nov 27
Omicron variant detected in more countries as scientists race to find answers	Reuters	Nov 28
Omicron Variant Symptoms Differ to Delta, Doctor Who Spots New Strain Early Says	Bloomberg	Nov 29
Omicron mutations alarm scientists, but new variant first must prove it can outcompete delta	The Washington Post	Nov 29
Discovery of Omicron Variant: How a Missing Gene Leads to New Strain Finding	Bloomberg	Nov 30

December 2021

Omicron variant fuelling ‘exponential’ rise in Covid cases, say South Africa officials	The Guardian	Dec 1
Cause for optimism on Omicron: Our immune systems aren’t blank slates	STAT	Dec 1
California confirms first case of Omicron coronavirus variant	LA Times	Dec 1
Many Severe Covid-19 Survivors Go on to Die Within a Year, Study Finds	Gizmodo	Dec 1
Omicron Variant Was Detected In The Netherlands Earlier Than Africa	LAD Bible	Dec 1
Video: China is dealing with one of its worst Covid-19 outbreaks since Wuhan	CNN Video	Dec 1
How global Covid-19 vaccine stumbles paved the way for omicron and delta variants	Vox	Dec 1
A different kind of COVID vaccine is about ready to roll	NPR	Dec 1
Mask mandate for planes, trains, buses to stay through mid-March	USA Today	Dec 2
Biden’s new Covid plan: more boosters and free home testing – STAT	STAT	Dec 2
Germany imposes curbs on unvaccinated, to make shots mandatory	Reuters	Dec 2
Delta variant poses threat to U.S. while experts await omicron data	The Washington Post	Dec 2
UK study finds mRNA COVID-19 vaccines provide biggest booster impact	Reuters	Dec 2
Allergy sufferers have nearly 40% lower risk of COVID-19 infection, study says	Fox News	Dec 3
Clues to Omicron Variant’s U.S. Spread Include Test Samples, Sewage	Wall Street Journal	Dec 5
Refusal to wear a mask says more about you than your face ever could	The Guardian	Dec 5
Two years of COVID-19: How the virus changed the world	Axios	Dec 5
Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates : Shots – Health News	NPR	Dec 5
The US is averaging more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, the highest level in two months	CNN Health	Dec 5
New York mandates vaccine for private sector; COVID travel rules start	USA Today	Dec 6
Double-vaxxed traveller catches Omicron Covid inside Hong Kong quarantine hotel	Daily Mail Online	Dec 6
Growing use of home Covid-19 tests leaves health agencies in the dark about unreported cases	STAT news	Dec 7
Omicron: South Africa COVID Cases up 400% in a Week After Detected	Business Insider	Dec 7
Quarantine hotel chaos forces ministers to DOUBLE number of rooms	Daily Mail Online	Dec 7
Travel bans not the answer to Omicron variant, WHO says	The Guardian	Dec 7
Omicron coronavirus variant may be more contagious, less dangerous	USA Today	Dec 7
Studies suggest sharp drop in vaccine protection vs. omicron — yet cause for optimism	NPR	Dec 8
FDA clears AstraZeneca’s Covid antibody treatment for immunocompromised	NBC News	Dec 8
Pfizer Says Booster Neutralized Omicron but Variant May Elude Two Doses	Wall Street Journal	Dec 8
COVID cases and deaths are on the rise throughout the U.S.	Axios	Dec 9
FDA OK’s first antibody drug intended for long-term COVID-19 prevention	CBS News	Dec 9
Omicron can likely outcompete Delta, which would worsen Covid in U.S.	STAT News	Dec 10
What omicron’s fast spread could mean for the U.S. — and the world	NPR	Dec 10
One year after FDA authorized Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, cases are on the rise	CBS News	Dec 11
Effectiveness of Pfizer’s Covid pill confirmed in further analysis, company says	NBC News	Dec 14
‘A defining tragedy’: US COVID death toll eclipses 800,000 as winter surge intensifies	ABC News	Dec 14
U.S. study suggests vaccines may be ineffective against Omicron without booster	Reuters	Dec 14
800,000 Americans have died of COVID. Now the U.S. braces for an omicron-fueled spike	NPR	Dec 14
Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S., infections could peak in January, CDC warns	The Washington Post	Dec 14
Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron	The Atlantic	Dec 15
There’s a New Warning About the Omicron Variant You Need to Hear	Self	Dec 15
What makes omicron spread so quickly? A new study offers a tantalizing clue	NPR	Dec 15
COVID cases rising with Christmas — and Omicron — around the corner	Axios	Dec 16
‘A Cauldron of Virus Stew’: The Country Not Vaccinating Anyone Against COVID	Vice	Dec 16
Omicron’s Surge Is Changing the Rules of Travel	Wall Street Journal	Dec 16
Omicron outbreak upends daily life in an exhausted America	The Washington Post	Dec 16
The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low	Scientific American	Dec 16
Full vaccination against COVID-19 and a breakthrough infection builds ‘super immunity,’ study finds	USA Today	Dec 17
New York state sees record daily high of new Covid-19 cases	CNN	Dec 17
Omicron variant symptoms: Most common listed among vaccinated in study of large outbreak	Fast Company	Dec 17
Omicron rewrites the COVID plan for 2022	Reuters	Dec 17
How bad could omicron get in the U.S.? Depends how quickly we act, modelers say	NPR	Dec 17
How many cases and deaths could the Covid-19 omicron variant bring in the US?	Vox	Dec 19
Omicron Variant Accounts for 73% of U.S. Covid-19 Cases, CDC Says	Wall Street Journal	Dec 20
NHL to pause season Wednesday, resume as scheduled after Christmas break, amid COVID-19 cases	ESPN	Dec 20
How Long Does Omicron Take to Make You Sick?	The Atlantic	Dec 20
Doctors Are Warning Of Nighttime Omicron Symptom	LAD Bible	Dec 20
Charts: Covid hospitalizations are rising across the country, even in high-vaccination states	NBC News	Dec 20
Omicron: South African scientists probe link between variants and untreated HIV	BBC News	Dec 21
Biden’s omicron battle plan includes 500,000,000 free at-home tests, hospital support	The Washington Post	Dec 21
How to track the Covid-19 omicron variant’s impact on case and hospitalization data	Vox	Dec 22
Omicron Is the Beginning of the End	The Atlantic	Dec 22
Army Testing a Universal Vaccine: Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle SpFN for All Variants	Business Insider	Dec 22
The Omicron wave begins in the U.S.	Axios	Dec 23
FDA authorizes Merck’s Covid-19 pill, but stresses its use should be limited	STAT	Dec 23
To block omicron, wear an N95 or other high-filtration mask	NPR	Dec 23
You can have COVID symptoms and get negative on a rapid test. Here’s why.	Slate	Dec 23
Cleveland-area hospitals battling latest Covid-19 surge put ad in local paper that reads: ‘Help’	CNN	Dec 24
West Coast battered by severe storms as parts of U.S. see springlike temperatures	NBC News	Dec 24
Christmas travel chaos as airlines cancel more than 4,500 flights	The Guardian	Dec 24
ICU doctors, nurses demoralized over “needless” COVID-19 misery	LA Times	Dec 24
The pandemic has caused nearly two years of collective trauma. Many people are near a breaking point.	The Washington Post	Dec 24
Thousands of flights canceled globally as Omicron mars Christmas weekend	Reuters	Dec 25
Covid: Holiday plans disrupted as Omicron surge grounds flights	BBC News	Dec 25
Head of US FDA’s advisory group: ‘We never expected Covid vaccines to be so good, so effective’	The Guardian	Dec 25
Video: Why experts recommend upgrading to a N95 mask to stop Covid spread	CNN Video	Dec 25
Covid-19 case rates have now surpassed the summer surge. Hospitalizations so far have yet to match	CNN	Dec 26
Covid vaccine and mask mandates expose alt-right Christian hypocrisy	NBC News	Dec 26
Omicron, winter weather cause travel chaos as thousands of flights canceled	NBC News	Dec 27
Chinese city of 13 million in strict Covid lockdown	NBC News	Dec 27
Israeli hospital launches first test of second COVID-19 booster	Reuters	Dec 27
US alarm at rise in child Covid infections sees school closures back on agenda	The Guardian	Dec 27
Holiday travel nightmare continues with COVID-related flight cancellations	ABC News	Dec 27
New study finds booster protection against Omicron drops at 10 weeks	Popular Science	Dec 27
Three bowl games canceled in two days as Covid outbreaks continue to plague college football	NBC News	Dec 27
COVID-19 data by state: Maps show impact of latest surge	NPR	Dec 27
More kids hospitalized with COVID-19 as Omicron spreads: “We need to get child vaccinations up”	CBS News	Dec 28
New Omicron variant fills up children’s hospitals	CNN	Dec 28
COVID-19 variants will keep coming until everyone can access vaccines	National Geographic	Dec 28
Omicron Outbreak Causes Thousands Of Canceled, Delayed Flights	Gizmodo	Dec 28
South Africa study suggests Omicron could displace Delta	Reuters	Dec 28
Rising omicron cases, CDC guidance threatens businesses	The Hill	Dec 29
Omicron ‘not the same disease’ as earlier Covid strains: Oxford scientist	CNBC	Dec 29
Front-line workers describe symptoms they’ve observed in latest Covid wave	NBC News	Dec 29
4 Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC to Close Due to COVID-19	NBC News	Dec 29
‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge	POLITICO	Dec 29
As omicron cases rise, it’s time to recalculate your COVID ‘risk budget’	NPR	Dec 29
As omicron surges, U.S., U.K. and others shatter Covid records	NBC News	Dec 29
WHO gives grim update on variant surge on 2-year mark of Covid appearing in Wuhan	The World News	Dec 29
There’s no mask shortage. You can buy certified N95 masks for $1	Fast Company	Dec 29
Travelers urged to avoid Sweden, more European destinations amid COVID	USA Today	Dec 29
CDC monitoring 94 cruise ships for COVID. Here’s how to check whether your ship is on the list.	USA Today	Dec 29
Omicron is spreading across the U.S. but few people use exposure notifications	The Washington Post	Dec 29
At-home COVID-19 tests less effective at detecting omicron variant, FDA cautions	CNET	Dec 29
People Without COVID Are Dying Because Hospitals Are Full of Unvaxxed Patients	Vice	Dec 29
Australian teen charged for going to club after positive COVID test	USA Today	Dec 29
How Many COVID-19 Booster Shots Will We Need?	The Atlantic	Dec 29
COVID-19 hospitalization surge among U.S. children spurs new Omicron concerns	Reuters	Dec 30
Westminster Dog Show 2022 postponed due to COVID-19	Fox News	Dec 30
Johnson & Johnson’s booster offers strong protection against hospitalization, South African study shows	NBC News	Dec 30
Xian battles COVID-19 in worst outbreak to hit a Chinese city this year	Reuters	Dec 30
Experts, governors warn of U.S. Omicron ‘blizzard’ in weeks ahead	Reuters	Dec 30
New Zealand research shows travelers infected one another across hallway in Covid-19 quarantine facility	CNN	Dec 30
Omicron surge is ‘unlike anything we’ve ever seen,’ expert says	CNN	Dec 31
US Coronavirus: The US shattered its average daily Covid-19 case record again and experts say numbers will keep climbing	CNN	Dec 31

A House Is About to Fall Into This Massive Sinkhole in Mexico	Vice	Jun 11
A Massive Sinkhole In Mexico Just Devoured a House and Is Still Growing	Vice	Jun 14
Huge Sinkhole Opens Up on South Australian Coast	Gizmodo	Jun 15
Massive hole forms in Florida family’s backyard overnight	Fox News	Jul 13

NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center	Space Weather Prediction Center	Current
News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids	Space Weather	Current
Scientists Warn of Possible Solar Mega-Storm	Comicbook	Apr 3
Mars-directed coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun	Phsy.Org	Apr 23
We only have one hour to avert this space catastrophe	Inverse
A unique solar explosion has scientists stunned and excited	BGR	Jun 9
Scientists Have Proved What Causes The Northern Lights	NPR	Jun 10
A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”	Ars Technica	Aug 29
Northern lights this weekend: Aurora borealis expected in some states	USA Today	Oct 29

U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers	US Tsunami Warning Centers	Current
Tsunami fears as powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia with officials warning islanders to ‘move to higher ground’	Daily Mail Online	Jun 16
What’s the likelihood a tsunami will happen in Lake Tahoe? Experts explain	NBC News	Aug 13

Volcanoes of the World – news, facts & information	Volcano Discovery	Current
Global Volcanism Program \| Current Eruptions	Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program	Current
St. Vincent volcano: La Soufriere’s plumes visible from space	USA Today	Apr 10
Volcano erupts on St. Vincent: What happens if you get caught in a natural disaster away from home?	Yahoo News	Apr 13
Mount Nyiragongo volcano: 8,000 people from the Democratic Republic of Congo cross into Rwanda	CNN	May 24
Democratic Republic of Congo hit with 61 earthquakes in a day following volcano eruption	CNN	May 29
Philippine volcano belches dark plume, villagers evacuated	ABC News	Jul 1
Iceland’s spectacular volcano tracked from space	BBC News	Jul 7
Indonesian Sinabung volcano erupts sending ash towering into the sky	USA Today	Jul 28
We’re Worried About the Wrong Volcanoes	Gizmodo	Aug 6
Even Small Volcanic Eruptions Could Create Global Chaos	WIRED	Aug 6
Mount Etna taller than ever as activity sparks volcanic growth spurt	The Guardian	Aug 10
Three Volcanoes Are Erupting Simultaneously in Alaska	Smithsonian Magazine	Aug 12
The Canary Island’s Explosive Volcanic Eruption in 6 Photos	Gizmodo	Sep 20
In pictures: Thousands evacuate erupting volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands	Reuters	Sep 21
Canary Islands ‘miracle home’ stands alone against volcano’s lava flow	The Guardian	Sep 23
La Palma residents warned of ‘evolution of volcanic emergency’	The Guardian	Sep 25
Spanish volcano eruptions continue, closing airport and damaging homes	USA Today	Sep 25
La Palma volcano: Toxic gas fears as lava reaches ocean	BBC News	Sep 29
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, lava fountains form in park	Local 10	Sep 29
Largest Underwater Eruption Ever Recorded Gives Birth to Massive New Volcano	Science Alert	Sep 30
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano that recently erupted for five months has started spewing lava again	CNN	Sep 30
New Fissure Opens Up as La Palma Eruption Intensifies	Gizmodo	Oct 1
Hundreds evacuated as red-hot lava threatens homes in Spain’s La Palma	Reuters	Oct 13
La Palma evacuees see no end to ordeal after month of volcanic eruption	Reuters	Oct 19
Volcano spews ash two miles into the sky in Japan – video	The Guardian	Oct 20
Lava flows, toxic gases, volcanic ash and acid rain: La Palma volcano eruption continues to pose threats	CBS News	Oct 23
9 Surreal Photos: Volcanic Ash Covering La Palma, Canary Islands	Gizmodo	Nov 5
Eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma destroys and regenerates	NPR	Nov 19
Mount Semeru volcano eruption kills 13 on Java island in Indonesia	The Times	Dec 5
La Palma’s volcanic eruption is officially declared over	NPR	Dec 25

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