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The U.S. should go Dutch to avoid building another Houston
Americans focus more on recovering from floods brought on by disasters like Harvey than planning for them.
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Hurricane Harvey brings some of the heaviest downpours anyone has ever seen
A year's worth of rain could fall on parts of Texas this week.
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Hurricane Harvey aims for the Texas fracking boom’s favorite port
Corpus Christi’s oil infrastructure has grown tremendously over the past decade.
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A Texas-size flood threatens the Gulf Coast, and we’re so not ready
As much as 40 inches of rain could hit parts of Texas and Louisiana. Meteorologists are getting worried.
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Greenland, the land of ice and snow, is burning
A wildfire like this is so unusual in Greenland that it caught experts off guard.
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Death Valley had the hottest month ever measured on Earth
Unusually hot desert nights contributed to what may well be a new planet record.
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One year after the Great Flood, Louisiana’s most vulnerable cope with the losses
In Baton Rouge, struggles don’t end when flood waters recede.
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Welcome to Paradise: Batteries Now Included
The power grid of the future will require sunny skies above and energy storage below. Thanks to Tesla, Kauai has both.
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We know more about other planets’ moons than our own ocean floor
Only 5 percent of the sea floor is mapped. Here's the plan to fix that.
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Climate change is turning cities into harsh, sweltering hotspots
You're not imagining it. Summers really are getting hotter.
