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When it comes to wildfires, history isn’t as useful as it used to be
The impacts of wildfire can be devastating, but the widespread nature of those impacts and their full costs to society are still being researched.
What are the costs of wildfire? CSU resource economics expert answers
The impacts of wildfire can be devastating, but the widespread nature of those impacts and their full costs to society are still being researched.
‘Megadrought’ along border strains US-Mexico water relations
When American and Mexican engineers drafted the 1944 water treaty, they did not foresee today’s prolonged megadrought.
What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare
While severe droughts, hurricanes, rising oceans and climate migration can seem new and unique to our time, past crises carry important lessons about how changing climates can destabilize human societies.
Warming is clearly visible in new US ‘climate normal’ datasets
Here’s what climate normals are, how they’ve changed, and how you can best make sense of them.
Solar geoengineering is worth studying but not a substitute for cutting emissions, study finds
Is reflecting sunlight back into space or modifying clouds a potential tool for countering climate change?
First 100 Days: Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
The entire administration is mobilizing to take on the challenge from every angle in a strategic, integrated way.
We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery
This was the mystery: Why are there more liquid clouds than the models think there are? To solve it, we needed to know what kinds of particles are floating around in the atmosphere around Antarctica.
Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future
As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water.
Climate crisis: Migration cannot be the only option for people living on ‘drowning’ islands
A closer look at the story of the largest coral atoll in the world sheds light on the issues facing those living on such islands all around the world, and the inadequacy of current international policy.