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![EMA representative Richard Dae (C) registers Victor Leos (R) and his wife Sanjuanita for assistance after their home was damaged during Hurricane Ike September 20, 2008 in Galveston, Texas.]()
![EMA representative Richard Dae (C) registers Victor Leos (R) and his wife Sanjuanita for assistance after their home was damaged during Hurricane Ike September 20, 2008 in Galveston, Texas.]()
Who gets help after a hurricane or flood? FEMA will start tracking it by race
Nearly half of the people who ask for disaster aid don't get help. Is it discrimination?
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![A man wades into the water to help rescue a flooded car in the Nooksack River in Ferndale, Washington.]()
![A man wades into the water to help rescue a flooded car in the Nooksack River in Ferndale, Washington.]()
Blizzard warnings in Hawaii, no snow in Denver: What’s behind this month’s wild weather?
This December is giving a whole new meaning to weather whiplash.
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![Bleached coral becuse of rising sea temperatures, in Raa Atoll.]()
![Bleached coral becuse of rising sea temperatures, in Raa Atoll.]()
Coral reefs in western Indian Ocean ‘at high risk of collapse in next 50 years’
Reefs from Seychelles to South Africa may become functionally extinct due to global heating and overfishing, study finds.
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![The Chevron facility in Richmond, California is one of more than 400 toxic facilities at risk of major flooding events by 2100.]()
![The Chevron facility in Richmond, California is one of more than 400 toxic facilities at risk of major flooding events by 2100.]()
Toxic Tides: Climate change expected to cause 400 toxic California sites to flood by 2100
Communities of color are five times more likely than the general population to live within half a mile of a toxic site that could flood.
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![Fading trees on red background]()
![Fading trees on red background]()
Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent.
The evidence is clear: Forests are shifting to scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S.
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![A man and woman ferry a dog down a flooded Sterling Road in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, on November 17, 2021.]()
![A man and woman ferry a dog down a flooded Sterling Road in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, on November 17, 2021.]()
‘Weather whiplash’ in the Pacific Northwest is a sign of what climate change has in store
Mudslides, evacuations, roads snapped in half: Floods hit Washington state and British Columbia.
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![A boat parked in water behind a house on Tangier Island.]()
![A boat parked in water behind a house on Tangier Island.]()
What a tiny island in Chesapeake Bay teaches us about the costs of sea level rise
Tangier Island in Virginia could be uninhabitable by 2051.
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![Animation: trees on fire with a coal plant in the background]()
![Animation: trees on fire with a coal plant in the background]()
California is banking on forests to reduce emissions. What happens when they go up in smoke?
How faulty rules and wildfire could unravel California’s climate progress
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![A firefighting helicopter flies as smoke from the Alisal Fire shrouds the sun on October 13, 2021 near Goleta, California. Pushed by high winds, the Alisal Fire grew to 6,000 acres overnight, shutting down the much-traveled 101 Freeway along the Pacific Coast.]()
![A firefighting helicopter flies as smoke from the Alisal Fire shrouds the sun on October 13, 2021 near Goleta, California. Pushed by high winds, the Alisal Fire grew to 6,000 acres overnight, shutting down the much-traveled 101 Freeway along the Pacific Coast.]()
California’s Alisal Fire signals that fall wildfire season is underway
The coast is aflame as the Santa Ana winds shift.
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Flooding could shut down one-quarter of America’s critical infrastructure
Hospitals, airports, and other public services are at risk.
