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![An aerial view of a street with many small homes flooded with brown water after a hurricane in Salinas, Puerto Rico, 2022]()
![An aerial view of a street with many small homes flooded with brown water after a hurricane in Salinas, Puerto Rico, 2022]()
In a first, EPA will test southern Puerto Rico air and water
Advocates worry that Hurricane Fiona has made groundwater contamination even worse.
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![U.S. Senator Mark Kelly speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
![U.S. Senator Mark Kelly speaks during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in Phoenix, Arizona.]()
Drought looms over midterm elections in the arid West
Democrats Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto fought for drought funding. They may both lose their seats.
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![Florida Governor Ron DeSantis]()
![Florida Governor Ron DeSantis]()
Ron DeSantis avoids saying ‘climate change.’ Incarcerated Floridians are living it.
Florida lacks a comprehensive policy to protect people locked in increasingly sweltering prisons without air conditioning.
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![Rickshaws traveling through a flooded area of Chittagong.]()
![Rickshaws traveling through a flooded area of Chittagong.]()
Adaptation, loss and damage, and African oil: What’s at stake at COP27?
Amid the Russia-Ukraine war and an impending recession, climate negotiators will be trying to keep the world’s goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius in sight.
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![A sign warning of impending fire danger is posted in Estacada, Oregon.]()
![A sign warning of impending fire danger is posted in Estacada, Oregon.]()
Oregon tried to inform residents about wildfire risk. The backlash was explosive.
Homeowners fear the state will devalue their properties by publicizing their fire risk.
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![Yellow caution sign in California warning of flood zone due to rain]()
![Yellow caution sign in California warning of flood zone due to rain]()
Study: Los Angeles’ major flood risk is much higher than previously thought
A 'hundred-year flood' would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
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![Land that was once under Lake Mead re-emerges as unprecedented drought reduces Colorado River and Lake Mead to critical water levels.]()
![Land that was once under Lake Mead re-emerges as unprecedented drought reduces Colorado River and Lake Mead to critical water levels.]()
Feds to Colorado River states: Reduce water usage, or we will do it for you
The Interior Department outlined a path for unilateral cuts last week, upping the pressure on western states.
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![Construction workers at the site of a flood defense project on the east side of Manhattan.]()
![Construction workers at the site of a flood defense project on the east side of Manhattan.]()
A decade after Sandy, Manhattan’s flood barrier is finally in sight — sort of
The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is.
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![NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses]()
![NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses]()
How sunken basketball courts could protect New Yorkers from the next Superstorm Sandy
The city wants to use its public housing developments to soak up extreme rain.
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![An aerial image shows various container ships sit in the Mississippi River, to the left is green vegetation and to the right is farm equipment]()
![An aerial image shows various container ships sit in the Mississippi River, to the left is green vegetation and to the right is farm equipment]()
As drought chokes Mississippi River, barges carrying grain shipments have nowhere to go
With no rain forecast until January, farmers are left high and dry.
