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Floods
New Biden administration rules aim to unsnarl FEMA relief for disaster victims
Jan 23, 2024
The rules include up-front housing vouchers and broader access to flexible, critical-needs payments in the aftermath of a disaster.
U.S. is formally out of the Paris climate agreement
by
Andy Uhler
Nov 4, 2020
Slowing climate change and adapting to it requires cross-border cooperation, even though many costs will be local.
Farmers need to adapt crops to climate change to stay profitable, experts say
Oct 20, 2020
Climate change has arrived in American agriculture, and it could cause profits to drop 30% over the next 30 to 50 years.
Floods, fires and financial risk: What climate change could do to the financial system
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Bennett Purser
Aug 5, 2019
A regulator warns the changing climate could cause a financial crisis.
Another day, another storm
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Liz Sanchez
Apr 11, 2019
Businesses in the Midwest are in the process of recovering from last month's floods.
Repairing Nebraska will take money and time
by
Erika Beras
Mar 22, 2019
Nebraska officials report that the flooding in the wake of the recent "bomb cyclone" has caused more than $550 million in damage.
Midwest flooding has agriculture reeling
Mar 21, 2019
Nebraska officials estimate that flooding has caused $1.3 billion in damage in the state, more than half of it to crops and cattle. The disaster there and in neighboring Iowa follows a difficult year for both states’ farmers, who’ve been reeling from the ongoing trade war and softening global economy. Now Iowa and Nebraska, with […]
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A year after the floods, Texas mulls lessons of Hurricane Harvey
by
Andy Uhler
Aug 24, 2018
Greater Houston area residents are voting on a bond to fund flood mitigation.
Investors flock to previously flooded Houston neighborhoods with hopes of big returns
by
Andy Uhler
Aug 22, 2018
Some homeowners are eager to sell, but officials fear new renters will be put in harm's way.
In Baton Rouge, big brands come to help — and get known
Aug 22, 2016
Tide, Duracell and Clorox are just some of the brand names flocking to the region.