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18 huge, billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

by Stacy Morford, The Conversation U.S. weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of...

Dallas is only the latest flood disaster: How cities can learn from today’s climate crises to prepare for tomorrow

Flash flooding made a mess in Dallas in August 2022. AP Photo/LM Otero by Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, University of Michigan Devastating flash floods in Dallas, St....

Working together to take on the climate crisis

DR. GABRIEL CISNEROS & DR. MAYA RAGAVAN   by Dr. Gabriel Cisneros & Dr. Maya Ragavan Climate change is here and everyone is suffering from the results. In...

Take Charge of Your Health Today. Climate change

CARLOS T. CARTER How do you see climate change impacting your community's health?  I see it impacting the quality of life of our children and families...

Restoring and protecting the urban forest      

Photo courtesy of Tree Pittsburgh Founded in Pittsburgh in 2006, Tree Pittsburgh grows, plants, and cares for trees in areas of our city that suffer...

Cities should be kind places for residents

DR. JAMIL BEY In 2016, the UrbanKind Institute began magnifying the voices of over-burdened and under-resourced Pittsburgh residents. The organization, which calls itself a “think-and-do tank,”...

6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world

by Rachel Kyte, Tufts University Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global...

Nurses on the front lines: A history of heroism from Florence Nightingale to coronavirus

by Leslie Neal-Boylan, UMass Lowell Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale,...

Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead – that loss hurts the economy

‘It could happen anywhere, but I just never thought here,’ said Chasity Walton, whose home in Mayfield, Kentucky, was hit by a tornado on...

New flood maps show US damage rising 26% in next 30 years due to climate change alone, and the inequity is stark

by Oliver Wing, University of Bristol; Carolyn Kousky, University of Pennsylvania; Jeremy Porter, City University of New York, and Paul Bates, University of Bristol Climate...

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