ENVIRONMENT
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
Far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change, a new study said.
Since 1985, the number of the world’s settlements in the riskiest fl...
By Bruce Finley
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Mountain snow-melting intensified this week with an unusually abrupt “flick of the switch” from cold to hot, leading to flooding that on Thursday cut off northwestern Colorado’s main transportation route and forced the shutdown of schools.
The statewide heat...
CALIFORNIA
An “atmospheric river” dumps heavy rain, snow
SACRAMENTO>> A powerful storm brought drenching rain or heavy snowfall to much of California on Saturday, snarling traffic and closing highways as the state prepared to usher in a new year.
In the high Sierra Nevada, as much as 2 feet...
By Victoria Milko and Julie Watson
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, INDONESIA »
The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor.
When the water gets too high...
By David Biller
The Associated Press
PETROPOLIS, BRAZIL » Every day, Alex Sandro Condé leaves the shelter where he has been staying since deadly landslides devastated his poor, mountainside neighborhood and seeks out others who have suffered loss. He doesn’t have to look hard.
C...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
Hurricane Ida illustrated how the extremes are getting more extreme
By Francis Wilkinson
Bloomberg Opinion
New York City saw it coming. In May, in the kind of clarifying document that invariably gets noticed when it’s too late, the city mapped out the sort of devastation that Hurricane Ida would ...
By Philip Marcelo| and David Porter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK » When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases leading into New York City’s subway tunnels turned into waterfalls.
In Philadelphia, a commuter line along ...
Climate bankruptcy
Fair Bluff is a small North Carolina town in an idyllic setting, amid cornfields and tobacco fields and alongside the verdant Lumber River. But Fair Bluff’s setting may also be dooming the town.
Like much of eastern North Carolina, it sits on a coastal plain, one that is increas...
Mudslides stranded more than 100 people overnight-closure of highway from mud slides continues
By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon is expected to remain closed through the weekend after a fast-moving storm blew through the area, causing flash floods and ...
CO, State has 7th highest projected increase in properties that will need to add insurance
By Aldo Svaldi The Denver Post
Colorado and other mountain states don’t just face a much higher risk of wildfires in the years ahead, but also of flooding, which could hit more homeowners directly in...
By David Leonhardt The New York Times, 2-17-
Much of the Pacific Northwest is blanketed in snow. Texas continues to endure frigid weather and electricity outages. Another winter storm is spreading across much of the country. Today, snow or freezing rain may fall on Washington, New...
By Michelle Li The Associated Press/Report for America
CHARLESTON, S.C. » Vickie Hicks, who weaves intricate sweetgrass baskets in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic city market, remembers climbing onto the table at her grandmother’s booth downtown when the floodwaters rushed by.
Decades l...