Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina making landfall. This week, the Trump administration suspended #FEMA employees who warned that the agency is not ready to respond to a disaster like Katrina. www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n... @npr.org

That assertion conflicts with NASA's charter from Congress in 1958, which specified that one of the core objectives of the agency is "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." (referencing @rhersher.bsky.social @afreedma.bsky.social @sciguyspace.bsky.social) 3/

EXCLUSIVE: Funding for #FEMA call centers lapsed the day after the #Texas floods, and approximately 40,000 calls from survivors went unanswered, according to federal records. The records appear to contradict statements FEMA's leader made to Congress. Read more here: www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

"In the week after floods tore through Texas Hill Country, most survivors were unable to get through to a federal aid hotline because the Department of Homeland Security let funding lapse" - from my @npr.org Climate Desk colleague @rhersher.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Plans are being made to shut down the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases -- new reporting from my colleague Rebecca Hersher ‪@rhersher.bsky.social‬ www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Exclusive: The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees. By @rhersher.bsky.social

About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

Can sirens help save lives during flash floods? Yes. But they're not a silver bullet. My story here: www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

Texas leaders are relying on FEMA money to respond to the floods. They're also working on plans to eliminate the agency as it currently exists. My story here: www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...

The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social

The Trump administration took down the website for the top climate info source for the U.S. But you can still access it! Details here: www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Here is the web archive version of NCA5: web.archive.org/web/20250626...

PSA: Looking for the latest sea level information for the U.S.? This is the site you want: earth.gov/sealevel/us (The sealevel.globalchange.gov site used to be a reliable source, but it's unclear what the future holds for that site under the Trump administration.)

Tonight could be DC's first low of 80-plus this year. Used to be rare ... 31 from 1872 to 2009. Since 2010? 42! Oppressive overnight readings make heat waves considerably more dangerous. Seek AC, check on vulnerable. Forecast updates at cwg.live.

What do you love about New Orleans? Whether you left the Louisiana or stayed after Katrina, we want to hear from you. What did you leave behind—and what did you carry with you? Visit wwno.org/loveletters and tell us what the city means to you, then and now.

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

ATTN: Investigative Journos in PA, NJ, DE, MD @propublica.org has just opened up applications for its next round of Local Reporting Network partners! If you've got an accountability project that you've been aching to do but haven't had the time or resources, here's your chance. Deadline 7/21.

Investments that help communities endure more extreme weather are "a path to keep insurance available," says Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law. “But the insurers need to account for it in their modeling. They're not."

If your house *almost* washed away in a hurricane, what would you do next? "My whole neighborhood got trashed. It was like an act of God that this house didn't, and I wasn't going to take that for granted, right?" Story here: www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n... @sophia-schmidt.bsky.social @whyy.org

Was happy to speak with Rebecca Hersher at @npr.org about reforms to #FEMA that have been circling. FEMA was not perfect but it was heading in the right direction. Now it's being pushed off a cliff.

#FEMA has a long history of failing to help the most vulnerable disaster survivors. Under the Biden administration, the agency was starting to fix those problems. Now, those reforms are in jeopardy. www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...

Our study just out in Nature: the extreme North Atlantic heat in summer 2023 was mainly due to weak winds causing shallow mixed layers, which heat up more quickly. Global warming is causing a trend toward shallow mixed layers, making such extremes more likely. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Forecasters expect 13 to 19 storms to form in the Atlantic between June 1 and the end of November. At least 6 of those are forecast to be full-blown hurricanes. By @rhersher.bsky.social

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government. By @rhersher.bsky.social

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

The Trump administration has dismissed the scientists who work on the National Climate Assessment. Released every 4 years, the congressionally-mandated report is a comprehensive review of the regional impacts that climate change is having on the US. From @rhersher.bsky.social

Agree, such a good story by @rhersher.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

Communities around the country were awarded billions in FEMA grants and have spent years planning infrastructure projects to prepare for future disasters. Now, the Trump Administration has cancelled the grants. Rural communities have few other options. On @npr.org today www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.