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Alabamians Want Public Officials to Mitigate Landslide Risk as Climate Change Makes Extreme Precipitation More Frequent

In Birmingham, residents want two properties shielded from development and turned into parkland. Councilors decided to protect one parcel years ago. The vote never stuck.

By Lee Hedgepeth

Birmingham's Woodcrest Road has been closed for over a year following concerns about slope settlement. The city said there is currently no timeline for its reopening. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News
Landslides following a series of atmospheric river storms this month left three homes on-the-edge of a cliff in Dana Point, Calif. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Another Climate Impact Hits the Public’s Radar: A Wetter World Is Mudslide City

By Audrey Gray

Construction crews work at the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, California on Jan. 31, 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

A Surge From an Atmospheric River Drove California’s Latest Climate Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

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