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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

Noem walks into "Press" buzzsaw

Alex Galbraith
A resident inspects the remains of her home that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 09, 2025 in Altadena, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Scammers swarming disaster areas

Vanessa McGrady
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed last night on approach to Reagan National Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Aviation expert "embarrassed" by Trump

Matthew Rozsa, Cara Michelle Smith
Firefighters watch the flames from the Palisades Fire burning a home during a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

LA wildfires among costliest disasters

Natalie Chandler
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Kyle Gardner explorers storm damage near the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Federal disaster loan program at risk

Natalie Chandler
Flames rise as smoke billows from a forest during a wildfire in Brasilia National Park on September 5, 2022. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil

Siri Chilukuri - Grist
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Maui wildfires strain health care system

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Mud is seen on land that was under the Salton Sea a few years ago on January 1, 2019 near Calipatria, California, United States. (David McNew/Getty Images for Lumix)

Scientists warned of Salton Sea disaster

Fletcher Reveley - Undark
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A Covid-19 testing tent sits along a Manhattan street on March 09, 2023 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why the US may never recover from COVID

Nicole Karlis
This video screenshot released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, the United States. (NTSB/Handout via Xinhua/Getty Images)

John McCracken
Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Fires in Colorado get more unpredictable

Jennifer Oldham - ProPublica
In an aerial view, the remains of homes and businesses that were destroyed by the Dixie Fire are visible on September 24, 2021 in Greenville, California. The Dixie Fire has burned nearly 1 million acres in five Northern California counties over a two month period. The destructive fire is the second largest fire in state history and has destroyed hundreds of structures. It is currently 94 percent contained. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Climate change wiped out my town

Jane Braxton Little - TomDispatch.com
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Earth's asteroid warning system

Nicole Karlis
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Good reasons to respect volcanoes

Brittany Brand - The Conversation
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The remnants of a destroyed home stand more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 6, 2017. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Will Puerto Ricans return after Maria?

Alexis R. Santos-Lozada - The Conversation
People wait in line to get fuel from a gas station after Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Photos show scope of Puerto Rico crisis

Jarrett Lyons
A CSX Corp train burns after derailment in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, February 16, 2015. (Reuters/Marcus Constantino)

America is literally on fire

David Dayen
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How to survive the next plague

Joanna Rothkopf
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Soraya Chemaly
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SHAUNACY FERRO - Popular Science
Nancy Pelosi, Michele Bachmann (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Chris O'Meara)

Freakish vote unites partisans

Bruce Vail
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Unregulated and unprepared

Lindsay Abrams
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