Impacts

Flooded homes and submerged roads are now reshaping life in coastal and island communities in the Philippines, showing how a combination of hazards are influencing the way communities adapt and struggle to cope with climate change.

Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing home insurance rates, sometimes by double digits.

Zillow has removed climate risk data from its home listings amid complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners who said the scores seemed arbitrary and were hurting sales.

The breakneck speed of New England’s transformation makes it the fastest-heating area of the US, bar the Alaskan Arctic, and the pace of its temperature rise has apparently increased in the past five years.

Record-breaking monsoon rains and rare tropical cyclones have triggered catastrophic floods across Asia, killing more than 1,400 people and displacing thousands.

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Texas earmarked $1.4 billion to help fund flood prevention projects. But after learning that so many communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.

President Donald Trump and his top Cabinet officials have repeatedly blamed catastrophic wildfires on poor forest management. His administration, however, appears to be lagging on that very work.

The Trump administration proposal offers an option for regulating only perennial waters, excluding a vast network of freshwater streams.

For the first time in a decade, the U.S. avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was exceptional in other bad ways, too.

The stretch of the river through Albuquerque has run dry twice since 2022, after not doing so for decades, impacting all forms of life that depend on its flows.
Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.

Indonesia’s president told survivors of last week’s devastating floods that help was arriving to those in need Monday as Asian governments scaled up their responses to a disaster that has left more than 1,000 dead in three countries.

Residents of Thini village in Nepal face worsening damage to ancestral mudbrick homes as increasing rain and snow cause leaks and weaken walls.

Millions of migrants toil in grueling conditions in the Middle East, where brutal heat contributes to an alarming increase in kidney failure.
Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.

Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump.

Scientists suggested that climate change could make central Vietnam a global hot spot for destructive storms. This year has seemed to prove the point.
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