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Rear view of person in high viz safety vest and white hard hat standing at entrance to large sewage tunnel

Cities are investing billions in new sewage systems. They’re already obsolete.

The use of decades-old rainfall estimates do not reflect current – let alone future – climate risk.

Diana Kruzman Cities March 8, 2022

Can the West learn to share renewable power?

Insights: Proponents of a heftier, coordinated grid assess its importance — and barriers to their visions.

Peter Fairley Energy September 6, 2021

Collage: A woman and man sitting on top of a speech bubble shape with a wildfire in the background

During wildfires and hurricanes, a language gap can be deadly

The importance of translating emergency warnings is often a lesson learned too late.

Kate Yoder Language June 15, 2021

People float in inner tubes down Lakeshore Drive in Mandeville, Louisiana, which flooded in the wake of Hurricane Barry in July 2019.

FEMA’s new flood insurance system is sinking waterfront homeowners. That might be the point.

Premiums are ballooning in states like Florida and Louisiana — and adaptation measures won't bring costs back down.

Jake Bittle Housing April 20, 2022

California tribes get green light for ‘cultural burns’

As climate change dries out Western forests and wildfire conditions worsen, California tribes have been urging lawmakers to loosen restrictions affecting cultural fire practitioners.

Zoya Teirstein & Mark Armao September 22, 2021

Flooding in Barataria, Louisiana, from Hurricane Ida

How sea-level rise is making hurricanes like Ida more destructive

The Gulf Coast has some of the highest sea-level rise in the country, in part due to climate change.

Jena Brooker Extreme Weather September 1, 2021

Louisiana’s Native communities face a long recovery after Hurricane Ida

The storm added to existing issues like coastal erosion and rising sea levels.

Mark Armao Extreme Weather September 1, 2021

Residents protest the construction of a new auto-manufacturing facility in southeast Detroit.

Detroit’s first new assembly line in 30 years will compound pollution in Black neighborhoods

Residents are fighting back against the environmental racism.

Jena Brooker Equity June 17, 2021

Medical journals warn of an even bigger health threat than COVID

More than 230 publications said unchecked climate change could have “catastrophic” and irreversible consequences for global health.

Joseph Winters Climate September 7, 2021

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