Climate change is intensifying both floods and droughts – sometimes leaving communities to endure both burdens at once.

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Wildfire, disease, and logging can wipe out carbon storage that companies count on to offset emissions.

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Journalist Michael Grunwald digs into this and other uncomfortable truths about food and agriculture in his new book, ‘We Are Eating the Earth.’ 

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More than half the deaths from U.S. hurricanes between 2013 and 2022 were the result of freshwater flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

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No matter whether Invest 98L becomes a tropical storm later this week, it could lead to serious flooding.

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Sin importar si el Invest 98L se convertiera en tormenta tropical más adelante esta semana, podría provocar inundaciones graves.

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