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Helene recovery: How to navigate everything from FEMA and flood cleanup to scams and evictions
A comprehensive guide on documenting damage to your home, applying for aid, knowing your rights as a renter, understanding unemployment, and more.
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![A man boards up the window of a dry cleaning business.]()
‘I can’t think straight’: Still buried beneath Helene’s debris, Floridians brace for Milton
Hundreds of thousands of residents are under evacuation orders as the state faces its second major hurricane in two weeks.
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![Line workers repair power lines against a scene of hurricane damage, with downed trees and debris]()
![Line workers repair power lines against a scene of hurricane damage, with downed trees and debris]()
Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids
As recovery efforts continue, utilities in the region need to rethink their approach to electricity in the face of climate change.
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![Two women assemble a photovoltaic solar panel in a factory in Texas]()
![Two women assemble a photovoltaic solar panel in a factory in Texas]()
The solar supply chain runs through this flooded North Carolina town
Hurricane Helene's closure of two essential quartz mines in North Carolina reveals the precarity of the solar energy product pipeline.
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![Hurricane Milton satellite photo October 8 2024]()
How Hurricane Milton exploded into an ‘extraordinary’ storm
Milton's wind speeds skyrocketed by 90 mph in 24 hours. It’s one of the fastest intensification events scientists have ever witnessed in the Atlantic.
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![Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 storm, delivering severe wind and storm surge to rural towns along the coast before it moved inland.]()
![Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 storm, delivering severe wind and storm surge to rural towns along the coast before it moved inland.]()
For Floridians in mobile homes, Hurricane Helene was a disaster waiting to happen
Trailers and manufactured homes have long served as a lifeline for struggling families. A warming world has made them a perilous place to live.
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![Al Gore at COP speaking on climate change]()
Al Gore thought stopping climate change would be hard. But not this hard.
Gore has been talking about carbon emissions for more than 40 years. Now he includes a "hope budget."
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How California boosted composting — but broke local composters in the process
As cities and towns contract with large waste haulers to comply with a California composting law, some community composters say they're being pushed to the margins.
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![Kamala Harris walking on to a stage at a political rally, with spectators cheering behind her]()
![Kamala Harris walking on to a stage at a political rally, with spectators cheering behind her]()
Indigenous voters worry a Harris presidency means endangering sacred lands
The minerals beneath tribal lands are crucial to the clean energy transition.
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![An illustration of a pink hand crushing an oil installation in the middle of the desert as water seeps underneath]()
![An illustration of a pink hand crushing an oil installation in the middle of the desert as water seeps underneath]()
In arid New Mexico, a debate over reusing oil-industry wastewater
The governor’s plan to use treated water from oil and gas drilling is in limbo while public safety questions swirl.
