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Scams are rampant after natural disasters. Here’s how to protect yourself.
To ensure you're working with reliable and trustworthy contractors, ask these questions first.
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Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather
Here's what that means for your insurance policy.
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Waterlogged and contaminated: In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for their flooding troubles
Residents are trying to connect the dots between hurricanes, high radium levels, and a mineral mining giant next door.
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![An illustration of a group of people cooking a communal meal inside a rectangular vignette. Outside of the rectangle, storm-damaged houses and crops show hurricane destruction. Above, dark clouds hover over everything.]()
![An illustration of a group of people cooking a communal meal inside a rectangular vignette. Outside of the rectangle, storm-damaged houses and crops show hurricane destruction. Above, dark clouds hover over everything.]()
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
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How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires
As the threat of wildfires intensifies, modern technology is playing an increasingly large role in both research and management. But not all communities have access to it.
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![Collage of Altadena after the Eaton Fire, man holding a clipboard, and a snippet of a dollar bill]()
![Collage of Altadena after the Eaton Fire, man holding a clipboard, and a snippet of a dollar bill]()
Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in.
“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.
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![a fast-food worker tends to chicken pieces roasting on a grill in an El Pollo Loco restaurant]()
![a fast-food worker tends to chicken pieces roasting on a grill in an El Pollo Loco restaurant]()
Workers are facing dangerous heat — even inside fast-food restaurants
Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers.
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![A satellite image shows Hurricane Katrina swirling over the Gulf Coast]()
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We now know just how much climate change supercharged Hurricane Katrina
Two decades after the devastating storm, scientists can more easily determine how much global warming is intensifying tropical cyclones.
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![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money
The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.
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![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
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FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
