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This study aims to identify the nature and character of risks, both modeled and perceived, and then propose cost-effective adaptation practices that can be implemented by local partners.

In a new paper, drawing on accounts from nearly three dozen previously incarcerated people, CU Boulder researchers reveal a disturbing story of how prisons and jails in Colorado have failed to provide humane protections from growing environmental hazard.

Climate shocks in Brazil, Colombia and Peru are leaving children cut off from education, food supplies and other life-saving services as rivers reach devastating lows.

More than 150 million people and 318m acres of crops are affected by droughts in the US after summer of record heat.

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional one that parched the American West from 2020-2022.

A new study shows that dry, warm, and flammable conditions have skyrocketed across the continent, favoring the spread of uncontrolled fire.

This inaugural State of Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying extreme events from the March 2023–February 2024 fire season.

In Canada, human influences roughly tripled the chances of the hot, dry conditions that contributed to extreme fires there.