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The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth

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This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]

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Hurricane Season Begins with Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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As a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Hurricane Season Begins With Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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To a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

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After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. But 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding, especially during hurricane season. And, like much of the city, the […]

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What To Do, and Not Do, During a Heat Wave

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Earth has never been so hot. Millions of people, amounting to nearly half the country, across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast are under heat alerts. Outside of the United States, an early heat wave in India and Pakistan saw temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit. […]

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The Texas Floods Amped Up the Battle Between MAHA and the Tech Right

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One longstanding fight that has divided the political right has been over whether or not humans should be allowed to modify the weather, with religious conservatives saying absolutely not, while the tech visionaries are all for it. These debates were often theoretical, but then the catastrophic floods in Texas took place. On July 2, two […]

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What We Know About How FEMA Officials Are Failing Texas

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The devastating floods that hit central Texas last Friday have now killed at least 120 people, including dozens of children, according to authorities, and left at least 150 missing. But the leaders at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) tasked with supporting communities in the wake of similar disasters have been missing in action, according […]

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Sen. Ted Cruz Stripped Weather Forecasting Funds From Trump’s Megabill. Then the Floods Came.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say […]

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Tragedy Strikes Texas, and Some Experts Blame Trump Cuts for Devastation

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On July 4, tragedy struck Texas. A flash flood cresting at more than 20 feet killed at least 70 people across six counties in central Texas, according to reports. Most of the damage was concentrated in Kerr County, a region about 125 miles west of Austin. There, the dead include 21 children and 11 who […]

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From Ice to Inferno: Alaska Issues Historic Heat Advisory

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first-ever official heat advisory as temperatures […]

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Anatomy of an Extinction

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Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately thought of the salamanders. Of course, he fretted over the safety of his parents, brother, and extended family in the path of the storm in the north Georgia mountains, but he couldn’t help but worry about the amphibians in harm’s way, too. As […]

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