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Climate News
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Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. -
Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to reduce their risk, but so far, insurance companies often aren't factoring that in. -
Middle-class families are struggling to afford insurance in southwest Florida. Realtors say a wave of foreclosures could be coming. -
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward. -
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department. -
Six years ago, Anderson Jones had to flee the historic flood as it inundated his home in the Mississippi Yazoo Backwater.
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In Antarctica, the Hektoria Glacier set a shocking record in 2023. In just two months, it receded five miles. -
Two years ago, Colombia's president announced the country would stop exploring for fossil fuels.
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Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes. -
But with an ongoing drought gripping the West, Don McMillan's work is an essential part of providing water to millions of people in Central Arizona.
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It’s been more than a week since a UPS cargo plane crashed immediately after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, but clean up from the disaster continues.
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Nearly 40 million people across seven states rely on the Colorado River's dwindling waters to meet their needs.
