FOX Weather, by Scott Sistek: As Hurricane Otis swirled north toward Mexico’s Pacific coastline Tuesday, a “nightmare scenario” unfolded for residents near Acapulco when the storm experienced nearly unprecedented explosive development in hours, going from a Category 1 to a…

The New York Times, by Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary: A powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 1,000 people….

AP News, by Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz, and Bobby Caina Calvan: Rain walloped the New York metropolitan area with a startling punch Friday, knocking out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranding drivers on highways, flooding basements and shuttering a…

CNN, by Amarachi Orie and Rob Picheta: Rescuers are searching through rubble and trying to reach isolated communities after a devastating earthquake struck Morocco, killing thousands and leaving more injured or unaccounted for. The quake is the strongest to hit…

AP News, by Samy Magdy: Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away…

Fox Weather, by Chris Oberholtz: After Hurricane Idalia made its unprecedented landfall along  Florida’s Gulf Coast, Idalia continues its trek as a tropical storm into Georgia and the Carolinas, blasting destructive winds, and catastrophic storm surge and flash flooding as power…

Daily Mail, Sophie Mann: Just weeks after deadly wildfires devastated Maui, brushfires on Saturday again sparked evacuations and fears for local residents already trying to rebuild their lives. Saturday afternoon, Hawaii Governor Josh Green issued an area alert with an…

The Washington Post, by Dan Stillman: California and the Desert Southwest could see exceptional amounts of rain in the next week as Hurricane Hilary, which developed Thursday morning off the coast of Mexico and was rapidly intensifying, threatens to deluge…

CNBC, by Catherine Clifford: Record hot ocean temperatures could turbocharge this hurricane season, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA scientists increased the chance that this year will be an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season to 60%…

ABC News, by Mark Osborne, Meredith Deliso, Morgan Winsor, Nadine El-Bawab, Mary Kekatos, Kevin Shalvey, and Jolie Lash: Officials say the wildfires that erupted on Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. Fires spread rapidly…

CNN, by Christina Maxouris and Mary Gilbert: A massive storm system unleashed vicious winds and thunderstorms across the East Coast on Monday, killing at least two people and knocking out power to more than 1 million utility customers from Pennsylvania…

NDTV: New and intensifying fires are forcing the evacuation of thousands across Canada as the country battled out-of-control blazes that a provincial minister warned on Saturday could last “all summer.” Nearly 17,800 square miles have burned since the beginning of…