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Flood-Prone Communities in Virginia May Lose a Lifeline if Governor Pulls State Out of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Aside from capping power plant emissions, the RGGI program sustains a state fund that helps coastal towns cope with recurring storms and rising tides.

By Emma Ricketts

A driver passes through a street flooded by rain from Hurricane Irene on Aug. 28, 2011 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Credit: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images
A road washed away on North Main Street of Santa Cruz during atmospheric river in California, United States on March 10, 2023. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

In the Deluged Mountains of Santa Cruz, Residents Cope With Compounding Disasters

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An aerial view of landslide damage in La Cañada Flintridge, California on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California, Battered by Atmospheric Rivers, Faces a Big Melt This Spring

By Bob Berwyn

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

Pakistani men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

By Danish Bajwa

This aerial view taken on Aug. 24, 2021, shows the pond at the Storflaket mire, an area where permafrost is studied by researchers looking into the impact of climate change near the village of Abisko, in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Credit: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’

By Bob Berwyn

A man tows a canoe through a flooded street of his neighborhood as a truck passes in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022, after Hurricane Ian slammed the area. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole Left Devastating Flooding in Central Florida. Will it Happen Again?

By Amy Green,  WMFE

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

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

By James Bruggers

An iceberg calving from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in February 2021. Credit: Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2021

Antarctic Researchers Report an Extraordinary Marine Heatwave That Could Threaten Antarctica’s Ice Shelves

By Bob Berwyn

An office worker returning home in Chittagong as the city faces unprecedented flooding due to rising sea level, the release of water from the Kaptai Lake, and the suspension of the Karnaphuli River dredging. Credit: K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images

Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

In Louisiana, Climate Change Threatens the Preservation of History

By Kiley Bense

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

A view of an iceberg in Lemaire Channel in Antartica. Credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Scientists Report a Dramatic Drop in the Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice

By Bob Berwyn

Cal Fire firefighters battle the Oak Fire on July 23, 2022 near Mariposa, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Snapshots, Hotshots and Moonshots: Images of Climate Change in 2022

By Katelyn Weisbrod

As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer

By Siri Chilukuri, Borderless Magazine

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

By Georgina Gustin

Smoke billows to the sky above where fires are spreading near houses Oct. 22, 2007 in Stevenson Ranch, California. Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images

Despite a Changing Climate, Americans Are ‘Flocking to Fire’

By Grace van Deelen

The Edmonston pumping station, which Adam Ortiz upgraded with $6 million in funding from Prince George's County, which substantially enhanced its capacity to drain floodwaters and is a lasting solution to Edmonston's flooding problem. Credit: Aman Azhar

As EPA’s Region 3 Administrator, Adam Ortiz Wants the Mid-Atlantic States to Become Climate-Conscious and Resilient

By Aman Azhar

Village in Bulakan is flooded by the high tide. The islands in Manila Bay in Bulacan Province are being inundated by every high tide as the sea advances. Credit: James Whitlow Delano

Sinking Land and Rising Seas Threaten Manila Bay’s Coastal Communities

By James Whitlow Delano

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