Early Biden Climate Test: Groups Demand Tougher Rules on Building
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has promised to help communities prepare for the effects of climate change. A new demand for tougher building standards could test that...
Battling America’s ‘dirty secret’
Climate change raises the risk from failing sewage systems. So Catherine Coleman Flowers is working for a new way to deal with waste.
A wetter and warmer Alaska means dangerously slippery slopes
n hour before sundown on Dec. 2, Lilly Ford and her family heard a “strange, low rumble” outside of her home in Haines, Alaska. It...
Sea Level Projections Drive San Francisco’s Adaptation Planning
As a utilities planner for the City and County of San Francisco, David Behar knows that access to the latest information about sea level rise...
New High Tide Flooding Projection Tool Aids U.S. Coastal Decision Making
A new tool developed with funding from NASA’s Earth Science Division helps decision makers and others assess how sea level rise and other factors will...
Rising seas: California’s affordable housing faces worse floods
For low-income Americans, the number of homes at risk of flooding could triple by 2050, researchers say. Three Bay Area cities are among the top...
Rooftop Camera Will Track How Local Forests Change With the Climate
A new rooftop camera at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will help researchers study how the local forest is responding to the weather, seasonal shifts, and the...
Deadly bacteria lurk in coastal waters. Climate change increases the risks
Health workers see Vibrio as a rare danger, if they’ve heard of it at all. But it’s already causing more cases of flesh-eating disease. And it’s poised...