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As Floodwaters Rise, Who Can Afford To Pay the Cost?
By Elise Bernstein In 2021, we are no strangers to the throes of climate change, with examples including the ongoing drought in the Western United States and recent flooding in Germany and Belgium....
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Zombie Ice and Karma
I learned a new term recently—maybe you too saw the headline—“zombie ice.” Zombie ice is glacier ice in Greenland that scientists have determined is 100% certain to melt into the ocean at some point in...
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Nature at the Door: We Don’t Have to Go Looking for Nature — It’s Coming to Us
In late afternoon, dark clouds slowly rolled in. They hovered, seemingly unmoving, blocking more and more sun as they thickened the sky. An evening thunderstorm was forecast. After dinner I lay on the...
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What Is a Wetland? An Ecologist Explains
By Jon Sweetman, Penn State Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged soils. They can have water on them either permanently or for just part of the year....
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Podcast: ‘Water Always Wins,’ So Why Are We Fighting It?
By Mike DiGirolamo On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we examine humanity’s approach to harnessing water, and how the current “us-first” mindset is actually exacerbating our water access...
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Book Review: Helping Water Find Its Own Level
By Susan Cosier In a mountainous village in the Peruvian Andes, community members care for an ancient system that helps provide water for avocado trees, hops, potatoes, and bean plants. Diverted...
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Can Your City Afford a Natural Disaster?
By Taylor Schenker Towns and cities all along the United States’ coasts are struggling to maintain spread-out infrastructure—at the same time, rising sea levels and increasingly intense storms are...
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New Research Shows Cost of Flood-Risk Secrecy for New York Home Buyers
By Daniel Shailer Woodside, Queens is the perfect residential neighborhood – until it rains. “You can see lights turn on [along] the whole neighborhood,” said Tenzin Woe, a computer science student who...
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Historic Flooding in Fort Lauderdale Was a Sign of Things To Come – A Look at...
By Smitha Rao, The Ohio State University When a powerful storm flooded neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in April with what preliminary reports show was 25 inches of rain in 24 hours, few...
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Dog Days
I’m not the one who should be writing about weather. Daily, I read about unprecedented heat in Arizona and millennial flooding in Vermont. Let the Arizona and Vermont bloggers write the weather posts,...
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How Well-Managed Dams and Smart Forecasting Can Limit Flooding as Extreme...
By Riley Post, University of Iowa The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the...
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Inundation and Injustice: Flooding Presents a Formidable Threat to the Great...
By Kari Lydersen August 8, 2023 — Editor’s note: This story is the introductory piece in a six-part collaboration — “Inundated: Flooding and vulnerable communities in the Great Lakes region” — that...
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Climate Change Is a Fiscal Disaster for Local Governments − Our Study Shows...
By Linda Shi, Cornell University; Tisha Joseph Holmes, Florida State University, and William Butler, Florida State University Climate change is affecting communities nationwide, but Florida often seems...
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‘Nothing’s Predictable’: Extreme Weather Is Ruining Farmers’ Crops, and Their...
By Lois Parshley, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” This story is the last in a four-part Grist series examining how climate change is...
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Extreme Weather Cost $80 Billion This Year. The True Price Is Far Higher.
By Jake Bittle, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” You may not remember the tornado that swept through western Mississippi on the night...
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Can California Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland?
By Jake Bittle, fresnoland This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Fresnoland. The land of the Central Valley works hard. Here in the heart of California, in the most productive...
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Whipsawed by Erratic Weather, Mountain Forest Ecosystems Under Stress
By Jack Igelman, Carolina public press Editor’s note: This article is part 1 of the five-part in-depth series Fraught Forests from Carolina Public Press, which examines the challenges of climate...
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Toward a New Conception of “Vermont Strong”
By Erin O’Farrell August 2023, Vermont’s Governor Phil Scott stood in front of reporters at a press conference and held up a license plate.“We are Vermont Strong,” the plate read in block white...
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As Climate Disasters Claim Their Children, Bangladeshi Mothers Seek Safety in...
by Mahadi Al Hasnat Climate change is exacerbating child mortality in flood-prone areas of Bangladesh, prompting mothers to have larger families as a response to the fear of losing children to...
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We Need Rapid Response Support for Indigenous Peoples in the Face of Growing...
by Joe Eisen Climate change can sometimes feel distant and intangible, but the increasingly frequent extreme weather events in tropical forest regions like the Amazon and Congo Basin are already...
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