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Floodwater surrounds vehicles following heavy rain on an expressway in Brooklyn, New York early on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, as flash flooding and record-breaking rainfall brought by the remnants of Storm Ida swept through the area.

How Ida’s inland path reveals hidden risk of hurricane floods

September 3, 2021 at 3:50 p.m.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida tore through New York, New Jersey and the Northeast early Thursday, dumping torrential rain that shut down transit systems, washed away streets and left several...

A man walks down a street flooded following Hurricane Ida on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Kenner, Louisiana.

Climate change fueled Hurricane Ida with warm, deep seawater

August 31, 2021 at 10:46 a.m.

Hurricane Ida smashed into Louisiana with winds of about 150 miles an hour, driving a wall of water inland and leaving more than a million people in the dark. Yet...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JULY 12: A worker seals the front of a restaurant along Bourbon Street from floodwater as rainfall from Hurricane Barry begins on July 12, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The slow moving storm is expected to make landfall as a tropical storm or weak hurricane near Morgan City, Louisiana. Flash flood watches have been issued over much of of Louisiana and Mississippi as the storm is expected to dump more than a foot of rain in many areas and up to 25 inches in some isolated locations.

Already braced for COVID-19, towns watch the rising Mississippi with fear

April 6, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.

From her home window, Belinda Constant, mayor of Gretna, La., watches the mighty Mississippi flow by. Beyond it are the sparkling lights of New Orleans. She views both warily these...

Construction on the Husky Energy oil refinery, where an explosion went off in April 2018, as seen from an airplane on Wednesday Oct. 30, 2019.

Senate’s stimulus bill is full of disappointments for climate advocates

March 26, 2020 at 12:57 p.m.

WASHINGTON — There was hope among climate activists in the U.S. that the federal stimulus to address COVID-19 might be the moment to both heal the economy and advance a...

A young child wears a protective mask and is covered in plastic while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport on January 30, 2020 in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to over 7000 in mainland China Thursday as the country continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain the spread of the pneumonia-like disease which medicals experts have confirmed can be passed from human to human.

Coronavirus and climate change could stretch FEMA past its limit

March 23, 2020 at 10:11 a.m.

WASHINGTON — It wasn't until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it was "leading the federal coordination" to...

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