Disasterology: Navigating Fossil-Fueled Chaos

February 21, 2025

There’s been a big increase in the number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. In just the last five years, those events have killed more...

Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible

June 16, 2023

As human-driven global warming amplifies the frequency and potency of natural disasters, we are increasingly dependent on one group of workers who...

Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas

October 21, 2022

An undeniable reality of the climate crisis is that poorer countries in the Global South are experiencing climate-induced disasters first and...

Risky Business: Underinsured Against Climate Disaster

September 30, 2022

Home and property insurance is complicated and typically boring – until a disaster happens to you. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of...

Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home

December 23, 2021

When it comes to rising seas and other climate threats, how do we figure out when to stay and when to go?  The concept of managed retreat –...

Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse

September 10, 2021

Water is essential for life, and throughout human history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new...

Flooding in America

August 14, 2020

“We had one of the snowiest winters on record in Lincoln and Omaha,” reports Martha Shulski of the Nebraska Climate Office. She’s describing...

Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations

December 7, 2018

From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the...

Weathering the Storm: Mayors of Houston, Miami and Columbia

February 8, 2018

2017 brought a raft of extreme weather disasters costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, including hurricanes Harvey, Irma...

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

November 9, 2017

Rising waters represent the most visible and tangible impact of climate disruption. Protecting people and property from all that water, while...