"As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing."
"Democrats are deploying climate arguments against Republican Rick Scott in the state’s contentious Senate race."
"JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels."
"As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable."
"Of more than 500 hurricanes that have hit the United States, the average storm led to up to 11,000 excess deaths, hundreds of times higher than official estimates."
"When President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appeared together at a rally for union members in Pittsburgh earlier this month, Harris opened her speech with a nod to the industrial legacy of a city in a key swing state for the presidential election."
"These U.S. counties regularly get hit by hurricanes, face major wildfires and floods and swelter under punishing heat."
"Miners aim to meet a growing demand for emissions-free energy, though a failure to clean up old sites haunts the industry."
"The number of people killed in Nepal by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend reached 193 while recovery and rescue work stepped up on Monday."
