Sustainability

Texans Have Learned How to Prepare for Both Drought and Flood in the Same Year

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from watching a cracked, dust-covered pasture turn into a raging river within ...
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Warmer Winters Are Changing Where Diseases Spread, Epidemiologists Say

A tick found crawling through the snow in Quebec would have seemed impossible twenty years ago. Now it barely raises ...
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Extreme Heat Is Quietly Becoming America’s Deadliest Weather Threat, Public Health Experts Say

Most people picture hurricanes or tornadoes when they think about weather that kills. Yet the numbers tell a different story, ...
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Scientists Believe These Crops Are Running Out of Time to Adapt

Farmers have always adjusted to bad weather. They switch planting dates, swap seed varieties, dig new irrigation channels. But a ...
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These States Are Losing Farmland Faster Than Most Americans Realize

Drive through the outskirts of almost any growing American city and you’ll see it: a For Sale sign planted in ...
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These U.S. Cities Are Facing Some of the Nation’s Steepest Insurance Hikes

Homeowners across the country have gotten used to opening their renewal notice with a little dread. Premiums have been climbing ...
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A Look at How Sierra Nevada Snowpack Has Shrunk Over Time

Every spring, water managers across California drive up to a meadow near Lake Tahoe and stick a metal tube into ...
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Hundreds of U.S. Counties Could Face Water Restrictions This Year – Is Yours One of Them?

Summer in 2026 has brought a familiar but uncomfortable rhythm to large stretches of the country: dry soil, shrinking reservoirs, ...
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How U.S. Growing Zones Have Quietly Moved North

For decades, the map hanging in seed catalogs and taped to greenhouse walls barely changed. Gardeners memorized their zone the ...
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Many Cities Were Never Built for Today’s Climate, Urban Planners Say

Walk through almost any major city and you’re standing on decisions made decades, sometimes a century, ago. The sewer pipe ...
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