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The view of where Abdul Ghazi’s house used to be, as seen from the roof of the school where he and his family fled to escape the flooding that struck Pakistan.
Climate Change
A Pakistani family sees firsthand the effects of climate change, as negotiators at COP27 battle over how to pay for them
Muddy water running through an informal settlement of huts
South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls
Luzia Barbosa de Oliveira, not pictured, is transported on a boat to her home partially submerged by flood waters in Sambaituba, a rural area of Ilheus, Bahia state, Brazil.
Natural disasters
‘It’s a gigantic tragedy’: Flooding in Brazil’s Bahia state displaces tens of thousands
The double yellow center lines are shown through the middle of the photograph with a downed power lined stretches across the road blocking passage.
Natural disasters
Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater
A Year After Harvey, Communities Are Still Rebuilding
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Growing high tides have turned this photo — taken from Pompano Beach, Florida, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — into a regular occurrence along the U.S. coastlines.
Climate Change
New report forecasts a troubling picture of rising tides, frequent flooding on coasts
A view shows the flooded banks of the Seine River and the Eiffel Tower.
Environment
Nearly 1,500 evacuated in Paris region as rising Seine poses flood risk
Helicopter dropping water on wildfire
Economics
2017 was the costliest US natural disaster year on record
Flor Bautista holds her daughter Camila in her arms, both looking directly at camera.
Health
These children suffered for months after extreme weather wrecked their town in Peru
Houses in this Florida neighborhood are perched at the edge of a rapidly-eroding part of the town of Satellite Beach. The town is one of the few in the state that's investing in a major plan to shore itself up against the rising seas and stronger storms b
Environment
One small Florida city tries to adapt to climate change, mostly alone
Global average CO2 concentrations rose at a record rate in 2016 to more than 403 parts per million up from 400.00 ppm in 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Concentrations of CO2 are now nearly 50% higher than pre-industrial levels.
Science
There’s more CO2 in the atmosphere now than any point in almost a million years
Pecan Acres
Economics
Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods
Mississippi River
Environment
As flooding increases along the Mississippi, how should communities respond?
Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, is seen approaching Puerto Rico in this NOAA National Weather Service National Hurricane Center satellite
Science
Is the 1-2 punch of Harvey and Irma due to nature — or climate change? Yes.
A rescue helicopter hovers in the background as an elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued from Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston, Texas, U.S.
Environment
The Dutch have advice on how Houston can plan for future flooding events
Commuters ride on rickshaws as streets are flooded due to heavy monsoon rains in Dhaka.
Conflict
Floods and landslides kill over 1,200 in South Asia
Isiah Courtney carries his dog Bruce through flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston.
Environment
Trump to visit storm-ravaged Texas as more rain threatens
A stranded motorist escapes floodwaters on Interstate 225 after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf coast with rain causing mass flooding in Houston.
Environment
Houston struggles with massive flooding and more rain in the forecast
From the rooftop to the bottle: Joris Hoebe's Hemelswater beer (“Heaven’s water”) is part of a citywide effort to control flooding in Amsterdam.
Culture
When life gives you too much rain, make beer with it
Books
A new novel imagines a partially submerged New York City in the year 2140
Peru
Development
Several cities in Peru are underwater, and the ‘coastal El Niño’ isn’t done yet
Hamisah photo
Environment
A village’s first female chief ended illegal logging with spies and checkpoints
Feri Yadi, a resident of Muara Baru in North Jakarta, stands atop the seawall recently built to protect his neighborhood. He has little confidence that the wall will work as expected. "Like in the past, this will be broken somehow" he says.
Environment
Need the latest news on flooding? In Jakarta, there’s an app for that.
An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. The city is sinking as a result of massive groundwater extraction, and the problem is especially bad in Muara Barus, which is already below sea level.
Environment
Trying to confront a massive flood risk, Jakarta faces ‘problem on top of problem’
Technology
Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?
Dikes once protected this broad area near the Dutch city of Nijmegen from flooding. But under a new policy for managing rising water levels due to climate change, the dikes have been moved back to allow a branch of the Rhine River to broaden out into its
Environment
Holland is relocating homes to make more room for high water
Louisiana's Isle de Jean Charles.
Environment
Rising seas are washing away two US towns. How they’re responding is a matter of faith, belief and money.
A resident fishes in the waters near Manila, Philippines, amid heavy current and winds brought by Typhoon Melor in some parts of the country. Wide areas of the central Philippines were plunged into darkness on Tuesday as Melor barreled into the coconut-gr
Environment
Can private investment help vulnerable cities adapt to climate change?
John Holdren, President Obama's chief science advisor, says he's optimistic about the world's nations striking a strong climate deal next month in Paris, in part because both the motivation and the means to fight the climate crisis are "growing all the ti
Environment
For Obama’s top science guy, the climate outlook is partly sunny
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
Dutch ecologist and dike designer Mindert de Vries stands on top of one of the new "soft" dikes being built near the Rhine River delta city of Dordrecht. Dutch innovations in flood control are helping reduce the adverse effects of older dike technologies.
Environment
With the waters rising, the Dutch find eco-friendly ways to keep them at bay
Punjabi flood victims are evacuated by boat from their flooded house following heavy rain in Jhang, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014.
Environment
Pakistanis rush to relief efforts after devastating floods in Punjab
A member of the rescue team carries a women as they leave her flooded house in Topcic Polje, near Zepce May 16, 2014. The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia.
Environment
The worst flooding in a century in the Balkans is uncovering another menace — landmines
Most of Miami-Dade County and greater South Florida is barely feet above sea level, with new development moving into some of the most flood-prone areas.
Environment
For Miami’s immigrants, some of the cheapest land is the most vulnerable to climate change
The river Thames floods the village of Datchet, southern England February 10, 2014. The British Government's top climate science agency says this winter's unrelenting rain is likely due at least in part to climate change.
Environment
The British government says climate change is likely behind its wettest winter ever
Andrew Gilham of the UKs Environment Agency points to an area of land designated to be returned to the sea
Environment
With sea levels rising, the UK is starting to let go of some of its coastline
mangroves
Environment
Saved by the Mangroves? A Philippine town dodges Haiyan’s storm surge