Large parts of Thailand including the capital Bangkok have been hit with heavy flooding, which has left at least 83 people dead as of Monday. Extensive flooding began in mid-September and peaked in late September/early October but is continuing in…
As the most heavily forested state in the country, about 94 percent of Maine’s forests are privately owned, so focusing on their carbon benefits has both immediate ecological and economic effects. By creating specific programs and collaborations, the state has been…
Melting Antarctic sea ice feeds a layer of water 700 to 1,200 meters down that acts as a barrier against warming. Every southern spring and summer, sea ice around Antarctica melts with the change of season. The melt injects fresh water into…
Climate change has done and continues to do a lot of damage to our world, most notably in the form of natural disasters. “We’ve seen recent catastrophic events driven by climate change, which threatens more extreme events like increased floods,…
The problem? The emergency manager had generated the graphic using an artificial intelligence chatbot, and it wasn’t accurate. “That county emergency manager was trying to get his stakeholders to focus on the risk in that county, and so he had…
a perfect storm of misinformation This story is part of Distorted, a Grist series exploring the spread of misinformation in the wake of extreme weather. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. You likely remember the 2023 Maui wildfires, a…
This story is part of Distorted, a Grist series exploring the spread of misinformation in the wake of extreme weather. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Trying to fact-check during a crisis is stressful, and extreme weather makes…
President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the nation’s top weather and climate agency have severely weakened its ability to forecast and respond to extreme weather, just as the country faces a potentially historic El Niño this winter, former officials and…
On April 15, 2018, nearly 50 inches of rain fell on Hanalei, a small town on the north shore of Kauai, Hawai‘i, the heaviest 24-hour rainfall in U.S. history. It caused a historic flood that stranded hundreds in evacuation centers as water…
Rodriguez will cover energy, water, agriculture, and more, and her stories will be available to republish for free. CalMatters and Grist are pleased to announce the hire of reporter Katie Rodriguez to cover the impacts of climate change in California’s…
Heat waves, wildfires, floods, droughts and hurricanes, reported as what a warming climate brings.
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