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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…

3 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…

5 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.…

6 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…

7 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…

10 months ago