Lydia McMullen-Laird

Investigators and researchers are unraveling the mixture of calamities that contributed to people perishing in underground dwellings during Ida's flash floods.

Here are the New York and New Jersey areas most vulnerable to subsidence and structural erosion via saltwater.

Experts say social anxiety is a natural reaction to spending the past year in isolation, but there are ways to combat it.

Female attorneys were seven times as likely to mention an increase in risky drinking because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Scientists are closely following a hard-to-predict trend of U.S. tornadoes inching toward the Eastern Seaboard.

Bitcoin is on pace to consume about as much electricity this year as all the homes in the mid-Atlantic states. Most of this energy comes from non-renewable sources.

Ocean currents deep in the Atlantic are losing momentum. It means more heat is getting trapped along the East Coast.

Climate scientists explain why there can be more severe winter storms in the Northeast even as the globe warms.

The city’s new grading system is forcing large building owners to take stock of energy efficiency requirements.

An average of 300 people are injured in traffic crashes on 9A each year, one of the highest rates in the city per mile.