Environment

CLIMATE-CHANGE CHALLENGESStudy Reveals Climatic Fingerprints of Wildfires and Volcanic Eruptions
By Jennifer Chu
In research that could help elucidate humans’ role in global warming, scientists showed how three major natural events impacted global atmospheric temperatures.
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WATER SECURITYMexico and U.S. Look for New Deal in Long-Running Battle Over 80-year Old Water Treaty
By Natasha Lindstaedt
Mexico and the US’s growing dispute over water rights further complicates an already strained relationship that must tackle existing challenges related to drug trafficking, security, migration and trade wars. Water is just the latest issue to rise to the top of the tension table.
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DISASTERSIn 2025, the US Suffered a Billion-Dollar Disaster Every 10 Days
By Matt Simon
A new analysis finds that in 2025 major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
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DISASTERSYou’ve Heard of Climate Change. What Is the Climate Debt Doom Loop?
By Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
The low-cost way for municipalities to fund responses and preparedness for the floods, fires and other disasters.
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CLIMATE ADAPTATIONStudy Warns Past Heat Waves Would Be Far More Lethal Now
The weather patterns behind Europe’s past extreme heat waves could cause tens of thousands more deaths in today’s hotter climate –unless countries rapidly scale up heat-adaptation efforts.
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WATER SECURITYWill Texas Actually Run Out of Water?
By Alejandra Martinez and Jayme Lozano Carver
You asked our AI chatbot about Texas’ water supply. We answered some of the questions that it couldn’t.
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CARIBBEAN RESILIENCE After Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s Climate Resilience Plan Faces Its Biggest Test Yet
By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help with hurricane recovery, but experts hope financial markets will invest more in adaptation.
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AI & DISASTERSHow AI Can Improve Storm Surge Forecasts to Help Save Lives
By Navid Tahvildari
Hurricanes are America’s most destructive natural hazards, causing more deaths and property damage than any other type of disaster. The No. 1 cause of the damage and deaths from hurricanes is storm surge. I have recently been exploring ways that artificial intelligence can improve the speed of storm surge forecasting.
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CLIMATE & MIGRATION4 Key Facts About Climate Change and Human Migration
By Ula Chrobak
How does climate change affect human migration and what does it mean for border policies? Learn about the complex relationship between weather and cross-border migration across different demographic groups, and the role for future policies.
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COSTAL CHALLENGESMillions of Buildings at Risk from Sea Level Rise
By Claire Loewen
Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly. The analysis focused on Global South and considered multiple scenarios, underscoring urgent need for planning.
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WATER SECURITYGroundwater Is Drying Out, Heating Up, and Causing Sea Level Rise
By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world —and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
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WATER SECURITYClimate Models Reveal How Human Activity May Be Locking the Southwest into Permanent Drought
By Pedro DiNezio and Timothy Shanahan
A new wave of climate research is sounding a stark warning: Human activity may be driving drought more intensely –and more directly –than previously understood. One example: The southwestern United States has been in a historic megadrought for much of the past two decades, with its reservoirs including lakes Mead and Powell dipping to record lows and legal disputes erupting over rights to use water from the Colorado Rive.
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TEXAS FLOODSThe Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
By Abrahm Lustgarten
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
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CLIMATE CHANGE & DISASTERS Climate Change Helped Fuel Heavy Rains That Caused Hill Country Floods, Experts Say
By Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News
Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like those that struck Texas during the July 4 weekend.
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WATER SECURITYA Deadline Looms for a New Colorado River Plan. What Happens If There Isn’t One?
By Alex Hager, KUNC
It would likely be complicated, messy and involve big lawsuits, according to experts and former officials.
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