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Wildfire season is changing. Spokane is showing how.
As climate change primes the Pacific Northwest to burn, hundreds in Washington state's second-biggest city have lost their homes.
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![A woman and a dog stand in front of a flood-damaged house in Texas]()
![A woman and a dog stand in front of a flood-damaged house in Texas]()
What another Texas flood revealed about the state’s warning system
Texas revamped its early warning system after a Hill Country flood killed 139 people last year. July's historic flood revealed what it accomplished — and what’s left to do.
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![A child stands in front of a murky sea]()
How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood
Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.
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![a blackened landscape of farmland with the shape of a house and car reduced to rubble in the foreground.]()
![a blackened landscape of farmland with the shape of a house and car reduced to rubble in the foreground.]()
Here’s what supercharged the monster wildfires in Spain and France
Last summer brought Europe's most destructive wildfire season on record. This season is on track to break it.
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![Four men wading through ankle-deep water transplant rice seedling in a rice paddy in Kashmir, India]()
![Four men wading through ankle-deep water transplant rice seedling in a rice paddy in Kashmir, India]()
Why rice crops could be in for a weird year
Researchers explain how El Niño and global warming are combining to create "the haves and the have-nots."
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![A burned out truck sits amid white trees scorched by the Cottonwood Fire]()
![A burned out truck sits amid white trees scorched by the Cottonwood Fire]()
Wildfire prevention has always been a challenge in the West. Hotter, drier weather is making it worse.
In an overheating era, the old ways of keeping fires from raging out of control may no longer work.
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These psychedelic images reveal what your weather app isn’t telling you
Equipped with some fancy technologies, Grist goes on a journey across Portland, Oregon, to chart the nuances — and inequalities — of urban heat.
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![digital collage of raspberry, Cyclospora bacteria, and lettuce with arrows]()
4 things to know about cyclospora and climate change
A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging, and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s spread.
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Is it getting too hot for summer school?
Scorching temperatures are testing the limits of programs meant to help students catch up academically.
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![A line of cyclists competing in the Tour de France douse themselves with water to stay cool.]()
![A line of cyclists competing in the Tour de France douse themselves with water to stay cool.]()
The year climate change came for the Tour de France
Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.
