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Boiling Point: Heat, fires, floods — extreme weather has affected 99% of Americans

A firefighter walks through haze as the Park fire burns near Mineral, Calif., in early August. (Noah Berger / Associated…

6 months ago

Flood risks: Preparing for urban floods with an eye toward equity

Flood waters from the San Francisquito Creek reached apartment complexes in East Palo Alto, California, during a storm event on…

8 months ago

As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

By Franco Montalto, Drexel University “When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters.…

9 months ago

Marin public health tool gauges sea-levels ‘vulnerability’

Homes in the Spinnaker Point neighborhood stand alongside wetlands in San Rafael, Calif., on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Nearly all…

10 months ago

Risky reservoirs: States where aging dams pose the greatest threat

 Record rainfall pelted parts of Iowa for 12 hours straight in July 2010, sending 10 inches of rainwater draining toward…

1 year ago