Weather

Japan is sweltering amid a blistering heatwave not seen in decades. As the country deals with an energy crunch, Japanese businesses are trying to save energy by turning lights down and thermostats up.

Some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year — some over wildfire concerns amid dry weather and others because of enduring pandemic-related staffing and supply chain issues.

Weather officials announce the earliest end to the country's annual summer rainy season since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records in 1951.

Sweltering temperatures and high humidity are hitting a large part of the U.S., affecting about 70% of Americans. Most at risk, the elderly, those with medical conditions and people who work outside.

Hundreds living in northern Minnesota have been battling back record-setting flooding for a month and a half, the result of a deep, late-melting winter snowpack followed by heavy spring rains.

Yellowstone National Park partially reopened on Wednesday after floods closed the park for more than a week. Only limited numbers of people are being let in with limited services available.

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday.

A new NPR survey shows 11% of Americans have experienced extreme heat in the past five years and had health problems stemming from a lack of air conditioning at home.

The summer solstice officially begins at 5:13 a.m. Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, according to the National Weather Service.

Philip Connors deeply loves the forest he has watched over every summer for the past 20 years. But it was a different forest two decades ago, and will be even more changed once the flames die down.