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Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation

A social justice group asks the Interior Department to review the adequacy of federal law as climate change supercharges storms and turns coal hollows into dangerous chutes of water.

By James Bruggers

A rescue team from the Jackson Fire Department assists people out of floodwaters downtown on July 28, 2022 in Jackson, Kentucky. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images
The flooded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana is seen in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Credit: Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Amid the Devastation of Hurricane Ian, a New Study Charts Alarming Flood Risks for U.S. Hospitals

By Victoria St. Martin

Rescue workers help evacuating flood affected people from their flood hit homes following heavy monsoon rains in Rajanpur district of Punjab province on Aug. 27, 2022. Credit: Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say Pakistan’s Extreme Rains Were Intensified by Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

This aerial image shows a tractor pumps water from a flooded field, near Orchard, Antelope County Nebraska on May 5, 2019. Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Are Pursuing Flood-Resistant Crops, Thanks to Climate-Induced Heavy Rains and Other Extreme Weather

By Grace van Deelen

Floodwater recedes from a corn field on March 23, 2019 near Nemaha, Nebraska. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Increased Flooding and Droughts Linked to Climate Change Have Sent Crop Insurance Payouts Skyrocketing

By Georgina Gustin

Wranglers guide a herd of stranded cows to higher ground as flood waters rise, due to a levy break Sept. 24, 2005 in Chauvin, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita caused massive damage as it moved across western Louisiana. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

As Extreme Weather Batters America’s Farm Country, Costing Billions, Banks Ignore the Financial Risks of Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

China's paramilitary police officers evacuate a resident on a flooded street following heavy rain in Meishan in China's southwestern Sichuan province. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura

By Bob Berwyn

Paramilitary policemen evacuate people in a flooded region in Wanzhou in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Thursday, July 16, 2020. Credit: Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China’s Summer of Floods is a Preview of Climate Disasters to Come

By Lili Pike

Gabe Richardson. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

American Climate Video: When a School Gym Becomes a Relief Center

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

American Climate Video: Giant Chunks of Ice Washed Across His Family’s Cattle Ranch

By Vernon Loeb

Kim and Kevin Johnson. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

American Climate: In Iowa, After the Missouri River Flooded, a Paradise Lost

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Mexico Beach, Florida, after Hurricane Michael. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey

The American Climate Project: The Shared Experience of Disaster

By INSIDECLIMATE NEWS

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