FEMA Offers Every State $2 Million to Adopt Safer Building Codes
First-of-its-kind FEMA funding aims to update archaic building codes that leave millions of people exposed to climate-fueled hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather
Climate Misinformation Persists in New Middle School Textbooks
Students could be taught for the next decade that humans are only partly responsible for climate change
Climate Change Is Making Saltwater Intrusion Worse in Coastal Areas
A hydrogeologist explains the shifting balance between fresh and salt water at the coast as sea levels rise
Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often
Raging floods, intensifying drought and rising seas could affect saltwater intrusion
Key Biden Climate Pollution Metric Is Safe—For Now
Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases
A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas ‘Bomb’ in the High Arctic
A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.
South America’s Winter Hot Spell Was 100 Times More Likely with Climate Change
A heat dome that baked parts of South America in late September was made much more likely and at least 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter by climate change
This Indigenous Community Records the Climate Change That Is Causing Its Town to Erode Away
In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands.
Climate Disasters Displaced 43 Million Children in Just Six Years
The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years
Journey to the Thawing Edge of Climate Change
What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.
Millions of Mosquitoes Will Rain Down on Hawaii to Save an Iconic Bird
Hawaii’s brightly colored honeycreepers are at imminent risk of extinction, and bacteria could be the key to saving them
More States Are Requiring Flood Risk Disclosures. Florida Is Conspicuously Not among Them
More states are requiring homeowners to disclose a property’s flood risk and history when they sell it. But 18 states, including hurricane-prone Florida, have no flood disclosure requirements