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The rise of firefighters-for-hire exposes the inequality of climate-driven disasters

Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock by Doug Specht, University of Westminster The Los Angeles wildfires have exposed a controversial practice that starkly illustrates the divide between the...

‘Racism’: Black Residents Accuse Alabama of Intentionally Flooding Town

Residents in Shiloh, a predominantly Black community in southeastern Alabama, are accusing the state of intentionally flooding their town through a highway expansion project,...

Beyond bottled water and sandwiches: What FEMA is doing to get hurricane victims back into their homes

Two people survey their beachfront home and business, which was destroyed in Hurricane Milton, on Manasota Key, Fla., Oct. 13, 2024. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell by...

How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world

Recovery from a hurricane gets even harder when more storms follow, as Lake Charles, La., residents saw. Joe Raedle/Getty Images by Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of...

Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk, as a new NYC study shows

People line up for ice provided by a utility company during a 2019 power outage in Brooklyn. AP Photo/Seth Wenig by Nina Flores, Columbia University...

Power outages leave poor communities in the dark longer: Evidence from 15 million outages raises questions about recovery times

Low-income communities often have a longer wait for electricity to come back after outages. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert by Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott...

Estimated 2.5 million people displaced by tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters in 2023 tell a story of recovery in America and who is vulnerable

Recovering after tornadoes, particularly in small towns, has many challenges. AP Photo/Julio Cortez by Tricia Wachtendorf, University of Delaware and James Kendra, University of Delaware People often...

Looking for a US ‘climate haven’ away from heat and disaster risks? Good luck finding one

by Julie Arbit, University of Michigan; Brad Bottoms, University of Michigan, and Earl Lewis, University of Michigan Southeast Michigan seemed like the perfect “climate haven.” “My...

Hurricane Hilary triggers Southern California’s first tropical storm warning ever, with heavy rain and flash flooding forecast

by Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula as a powerful Category 4 storm on Aug. 18, 2023, and was...

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...

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