Natural Disasters/Catastrophes

BOULDER, Colo.—For almost five years, an international consortium of scientists was chasing clouds, determined to solve a problem that bedeviled climate-change forecasts for a generation:…

“Eek, Nicole. Time to close the windows!” shrieked Mila.OK, fine, Mila didn’t shriek. It didn’t say anything at all. Mila is a portly, Wi-Fi-enabled smart air filter sitting in the corner of…

IN AUGUST 2020, when Jeff Deshon peered out the windows of his Fairfield, Calif., home, the sky was so sickly orange “it looked like an apocalypse,” he said, with smoke spouting…

TAIPEI—The severe flooding in central China cut power temporarily at Apple Inc.’s biggest iPhone manufacturing site as water seeped into some areas and the site’s…

In a small office across from a dry cleaner in Wake Forest, N.C., a team of engineers is exploring the possibility of using data found in 5G wireless signals to measure a key factor in the…