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A pastor inspects his church after the floods recede on Oahu. The mud covering the floor and the high watermarks on the walls and curtains are the remnants of the historic flash floods in the area. (Stephen Lam / Getty Images)

Hawaiians return to flood-ravaged homes

CK Smith
Debris lays along the Guadalupe River after it was swept up in the flash flooding on July 8, 2025 in Ingram, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas lawmakers ignored flood plan recs

Lexi Churchill, Lomi Kriel - The Texas Tribune
Rescuers battle debris and weather to rescue survivors and recover the lost. 12 campers are still missing, and 70 are dead, including 21 children. ( Eric Vryn / Getty Images)

Search continues in deadly TX floods

CK Smith
Rescuers race to find as many survivors from the Central Texas flooding, including at least 20 young girls from a nearby Christian summer camp. (Eric Vryn / Getty Images)

Deadly Texas floods kill at least 27

CK Smith
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Group of giraffe standing on grass. (Fiona / FOAP / Getty Images)

Giraffes promote peace in Kenya

Laurel Neme - The Revelator
People speak in the street after heavy rain and flooding hit large parts of the country on November 04, 2024 in Paiporta, Spain. (Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)

Spain reeling from deadly floods

Matthew Rozsa
Thwaites Glacier (NASA/JPL)

Doomsday Glacier near collapse: study

Matthew Rozsa
NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a set of nine-hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Antarctica's past — and future — melt

Matthew Rozsa
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Waves lap ashore near condo buildings on the day the United Nations released a report with a dire warning for humanity on August 09, 2021 in Sunny Isles, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Sea level rise is getting more serious

Matthew Rozsa
A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya on September 12, 2023. (Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Buildings still smolder days after a wildfire gutted downtown Lahaina. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Record-breaking year of climate disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Attendees look at a rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on September 1, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. (Photo by JULIE JAMMOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Death and disaster in the high desert

Sophia Tesfaye
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Lone penguin standing on ice floe (Getty Images/Andrew Peacock)

Sea level rise may be catastrophic

Matthew Rozsa
Tyler Jovic, of Montpelier, carries his neighbor's dog to dry ground on Tuesday afternoon, July 11, 2023. Vermont has been under a State of Emergency since Sunday evening as heavy rains continued through Tuesday morning causing flooding across the state. (John Tully for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Northeast flooding triggered by rains

Rae Hodge
An aerial photo taken on February 14, 2023 shows the Waiohiki bridge and surrounds inundated by the Tutaekuri River after Cyclone Gabrielle made landfall near the city of Napier. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous leaders ask for relief

Joseph Lee - Grist
Floodwaters cover a street in the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 14, 2023 in Corcoran, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Tulare Lake floods California

Jake Bittle - Grist
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In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Calif.'s intensifying atmospheric rivers

Jake Bittle - Grist
Homes along Gross Loop off of KY-15 are flooded with water from the North Fork of the Kentucky River. (Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Strip mines blamed amid floodwaters rise

Brett Marsh - Grist
In an aerial view, floodwaters cover an agricultural area after the Salinas River overflowed its banks on January 13, 2023 in Salinas, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Homes in flood zones greatly overvalued

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Sunset aerial view of downtown Stockton, California, USA. (Getty Images/MattGush)

Climate change could destroy Stockton

Jake Bittle - Grist
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A child remains at an area affected by a drought on Earth Day in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Diarrheal disease and climate change

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(Getty/Ron_Thomas)

LA's flood risk is higher than we knew

Jessie Blaeser - Grist
People take photos of water filling the entrance of The Plaza Shops in Battery Park in New York on October 30, 2012 as New Yorkers cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm left large parts of New York City without power and transportation. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

How to protect NYC from the next Sandy

Jake Bittle - Grist
A man walks down a flooded street in the Juana Matos neighborhood of Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022, after the passage of Hurricane Fiona. (AFP via Getty Images)

Hurricane Ian is proof of climate change

Matthew Rozsa
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