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The author’s 9-year-old son will likely face about four times as many extreme events in his lifetime as older adults today. An international report explains the impacts already being felt.
For the first time, an IPCC climate report has assessed evidence that weather and climate extremes are already affecting mental health — and are likely to worsen.
As the impacts and costs of climate change increase over time, New Zealand’s financial systems could become less stable and the government less able to support those affected.
Disaster-affected communities form the backbone of any disaster response. But survivors are often underutilised in shaping plans for their community’s longer-term recovery and preparedness efforts.
A new study maps vegetation’s fire risk across the West and shows where population in the highest-risk areas from California to Texas is booming.
As more people move into high fire-risk areas, an architect explains what to do to keep properties as safe as possible.
After another devastating wildfire year in the West, the Biden administration has a plan to ramp up forest thinning and prescribed burns. Two foresters explain why these projects are so important.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.
A hurricane that wreaked havoc from Louisiana to New York City, the Texas freeze and devastating western wildfires topped NOAA’s list of billion-dollar disasters in 2021.
Animals are surprisingly good at avoiding fire - but can they survive the unprecedented megafires we now face?
US disasters in 2021 told a tale of two climate extremes. A climate scientist explains why wet areas are getting wetter and dry areas drier.
Southern California is on the front line of climate change, and recent survey data shows that residents are feeling its effects in many ways.
Fires in arid Australia are extensive, largely unmanaged, often destructive and significantly under-reported.
Forest fires in Australia are burning more land across more of the year than ever before, as climate-linked fire weather worsens.
Private companies rate all kinds of investments, from stocks to used cars. Now, they’re starting to analyze climate risks to local real estate – but how reliable are their findings?
Pollution from more frequent floods and wildfires – exacerbated by the warming climate – is threatening human health and poses particular risks to the brain.
Policy-makers need the courage to commit to meaningful reductions of greenhouse gas emissions if we want to avoid the widespread loss of mountain glaciers.
Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.
Studies show climate change is raising the risk of cascading hazards that alone might not be extreme but add up to human disasters. Communities and government agencies aren’t prepared.
Top contributors
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Wildfire Specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension; Adjunct Professor Bren School of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
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Investigadora Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (Universidad de Oviedo - CSIC)
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
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Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, Director of the Healthy Plumbing Consortium and Center for Plumbing Safety, Purdue University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Director, Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Associate Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Fire Ecology, University of Montana
