>"A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery _...Read More_

This is a big deal. Coastal infrastructure is designed to withstand a certain amount of storm surge. As a storm surge gets higher, those design limits get exceeded. There’s a huge difference in impacts between “withstand” and “not _...Read More_

"Hurricane Ida and California wildfires are two sides of the same coin: On a warmer planet, it’s getting harder to evacuate from extreme events."

A million households without power as governor says system of levees overhauled after Hurricane Katrina will face ‘most severe _...Read More_

"From Australian bushfires to Atlantic hurricanes, insurance damages were the highest annual total ever, says Christian Aid study"

[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/2020-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/2020-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage) >"A lot happened in 2020. Here’s how The Times’s Climate Desk covered it."

“absolutely responsible for the hyperactive season...It’s very likely that human-caused climate change contributed to that anomalously warm ocean.”

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, killing at least one person, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds as it pushed inland _...Read More_