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cities and climate change

What in the world is weather whiplash?

By Jennifer A. Francis | Climate Change

How to not die from heat on a too-hot planet

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?

By Matthew Huber | Climate Change

The cold crunch: How to cool people without overheating the planet

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

‘Silent killer’: A series on surviving the extremely hot future 

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Are cities ready for extreme heat?

By John Morales | Climate Change, Columnists

drivers and bikers make their way through flooded streets in Hanoi, Vietnam

Many coastal cities are sinking even faster than sea levels are rising

By Michael Allen | Climate Change

a broken part of the seawall at Gun Rock Beach damaged in the Blizzard of 1978

Why cities should ditch seawalls and let the water in

By Kristina Hill | Climate Change, Opinion

boats on a dry lakebed

Against backdrop of war, major climate report calls for adaptation and mitigation now

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

A man kayaks down a flooded street in front of flooded cars

Make 2022 the year you become a climate influencer

By John Morales | Climate Change

Beto O'Rourke with reporter outside Erie PA

Beto O’Rourke: “Any plan to address climate change must address environmental justice”

By Brentin Mock | Climate Change

for sale sign flooded

“Climate change is this generation’s Vietnam”

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading