Readers criticize the country’s lax gun laws. Also: “The Power Broker” at 50; air-conditioning; phones in school; polluting cruise ships; still summer.

Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.

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We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

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We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events. It’s time we name them.

Yagi, one of 2024’s strongest storms, hit the southern Chinese island of Hainan on Friday. It is forecast to make landfall in Vietnam on Saturday.

The storm has killed at least 13 people in the Philippines and is forecast to be the strongest to hit Hainan Province in a decade.

Some vegetables cost more than they have in five years. Top Chinese officials have made a point of showing that they’re doing something about it.

Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes in a mountainous part of Sichuan Province. An expressway bridge collapsed amid heavy rains.

The storm has already left a trail of destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines, where it killed at least 15 people.

The storm, weaker but still dangerous, made landfall just before 8 p.m. local time. Six sailors were still missing after a cargo ship sank near Taiwan.

Typhoon Gaemi made landfall on the island with Category 3 winds Wednesday night after killing at least six people in the region.

The city of Meizhou reported a “once-in-a-century” flood, with at least 38 people dying in one county alone.