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Mississippi River towns pilot new insurance model to help with disaster response
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
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![Bottled water and a toilet paper roll sit on a small box near a house]()
Some towns still don’t have drinkable water months after Hurricane Helene. A full recovery could take years.
The flooding that devastated western North Carolina during Hurricane Helene knocked out dozens of rural water systems.
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![an african american person holds a sign up in the middle of a crowd of people. The sign is a fabric banner that says TRUMP: CLIMATE CRIMINAL.. Behind her is a blurry background showing a man in a hat at a podium and an audience with their phones out looking away from the podium.]()
Where did all the climate voters go?
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump, but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
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![Senator Debbie Stabenow speaks with an aide before a committee meeting]()
![Senator Debbie Stabenow speaks with an aide before a committee meeting]()
The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
Democrats and Republicans can't seem to agree over what belongs in the nation's leading agricultural policy.
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Extreme Weather
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‘Praying for rain’: How New York farmers are dealing with drought — and unexpected brush fires
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Mexico is offering water to South Texas. But there’s a catch farmers aren’t happy about.
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What Election Day looked like for voters in hurricane-battered communities across Florida and North Carolina
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Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
Indigenous Affairs
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A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California
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Tribes help tribes after natural disasters. Helene is no different.
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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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![Oil pump jacks at the Elk Hills oil field in Kern County, California.]()
Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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![Collage of farmworkers carrying produce, snippets of a dollar bill, and tomatoes — all centered around an empty dinner plate]()
The people who feed America are going hungry
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![illustration in the style of WPA posters of 3 electricians with electric bolts above them; a heat pump and solar panels in the background]()
To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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![Senator Debbie Stabenow speaks with an aide before a committee meeting]()
The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
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![Tens of thousands protest outside the New Zealand parliament on Nov. 19, 2024.]()
![Tens of thousands protest outside the New Zealand parliament on Nov. 19, 2024.]()
Mass protests against New Zealand’s effort to weaken Māori rights — and hurt the planet
"This is about the protection of all that we hold dear."
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![Yalchin Rafiyev, lead negotiator for the COP29 Azerbaijan presidency, speaks during a plenary session in Baku, Azerbaijan. The presidency convened a plenary following criticism from several countries, who alleged that talks at COP29 were faltering.]()
![Yalchin Rafiyev, lead negotiator for the COP29 Azerbaijan presidency, speaks during a plenary session in Baku, Azerbaijan. The presidency convened a plenary following criticism from several countries, who alleged that talks at COP29 were faltering.]()
As a COP29 deal on fossil fuels falters, the blame game begins
With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition.
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![Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva receive Indigenous leaders]()
![Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva receive Indigenous leaders]()
Can Lula still save the Amazon?
The power imbalance in Brazil's government keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.
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![Activists demonstrate for climate adaptation financing on day eight at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
![Activists demonstrate for climate adaptation financing on day eight at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
How do you define climate adaptation? Here are 10,000 ways.
At COP29, a decade-long effort to realize the ambitions of the Paris Agreement could give the world a way to measure the success of climate adaptation.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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How communities are giving new life to polluted land
Cleaning up contaminated land is a struggle. Meet some of the community leaders who are taking matters into their own hands.
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Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse
A new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power.
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![View of a cattle ranch in the Jiangsu province of China]()
![View of a cattle ranch in the Jiangsu province of China]()
The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.
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Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?
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