The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground
[ad_1] Water is urban planners’ nemesis. Because the built environment is so impervious to liquid, thanks to all that asphalt, concrete, and brick, water accumulates instead of seeping into the…
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
[ad_1] Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf…
Pakistan’s ‘Monster Monsoon’ Shows the Wrath of Climate Change
[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate crisis is the prime suspect for the devastating scale of flooding in…
Is Coal Mining Increasing East Kentucky’s Flood Risk?
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal—an extractive…