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Topic: Natural Disasters (page 2)

Antarctica (Getty Images/Johner Images)

The defining words of 2021

Kate Yoder - Grist
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Flood me twice, shame on FEMA?

Jena Brooker - Grist
Rising sea levels, conceptual (Getty Images)

Coastal economies at risk from tides

Renee Collini - The Conversation
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Texas plants released excess pollution

Erin Douglas - The Texas Tribune
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1,500 mile-long dust plume hits the US

Nicole Karlis
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Dems: Stop withholding Puerto Rico funds

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Mailboxes remain near where houses once stood Thursday, Aug 18, 2016, in Phelan, Calif. Scenes of destruction were everywhere Thursday after a huge wildfire sped through mountains and high desert 60 miles east of Los Angeles so swiftly that it took seasoned firefighters off guard. (AP Photo/Christine Armario) (AP)

Tax don't ban "high risk" rebuilding

Alexander Smith - The Conversation
A flooded street after Hurricane Sandy. (Getty/jonathansloane)

Why FEMA isn’t ready for next disaster

Paola Rosa-Aquino - Grist
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Joaninha Manuel, 9, and her sister Rosita Moises Zacarias, 15, look at their father Francisco Simon in their house destroyed by the cyclone Idai as they go to seep in a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 22, 2019. (Getty/Yasuyoshi Chiba)

Disaster relief done right

Phil Buchanan
Residents look for belongings March 4, 2019 at a home after it was destroyed in a tornado in Beauregard, Alabama. (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump's “A-plus treatment” for Alabama

Brian L. Ott
This Nov. 3, 2012 aerial photo provided by the National Park Service, taken off Bellport, N.Y., the week after Superstorm Sandy, shows an opening, center, that was created by the storm in the eastern strip of Fire Island that separates the Atlantic Ocean, upper right, from the Great South Bay. (USGS Cheryl Hapke/National Park Service via AP) (AP)

Ancient plankton have climate data

Elisa Bonnin
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Climate change threatens your coffee

Nicole Karlis
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Bay Area shaken by 2 quakes in 2 days

Nicole Karlis
This GOES East satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. (NOAA via AP)

Climate is getting more extreme

Coleman Harris
Trash begins to accumulate along the National Mall near the Washington Monument due to a partial shutdown of the federal government on December 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Shutdown's effects on parks will linger

Nicole Karlis
Caution tape closes off an entrance to the beach as Palm Beach County officials announced that all county beaches are closed due to red tide affecting coastal areas on October 4, 2018 in Lake Worth, Florida. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

A red tide engulfs Florida coast

Nicole Karlis
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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2016 file photo shows Blood Falls, bottom left, and the Taylor Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

Antarctic sea ice is "astonishingly" low

Eric Holthaus - Grist
A man wades through a flooded road as Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico. (Getty/Ricardo Arduengo)

Medicaid costs drive PR's debt crisis

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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10 worst-case climate predictions

Lorraine Chow - Independent Media Institute
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75% of California is in drought — again

Nicole Karlis
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Villagers walk through debris after being hit by a tsunami as they carry their belongings on December 24, 2018 in Carita, Banten province, Indonesia. (Getty/Ulet Ifansasti)

In this Jan. 24, 2016 photo, a malnourished child lies in a bed at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Some 3 million children here under five years require services to treat or prevent malnutrition, according to a UNICEF report on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Climate change drives world hunger

Jessica Eise, Kenneth Foster - The Conversation
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Our future with global warming is bleak

Matthew Rozsa
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Sept. 6, 2018. (AP/Noah Berger)

How climate change impacts mental health

Nicole Karlis
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