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Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

Renewable energy experts and developers in Texas are warning that rural communities could bear the brunt of the economic impact from changes to federal

A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.

Natural climate variation is most likely reason as global heating due to fossil fuel burning has continued

With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. But while some species can adapt, others are seeing huge population declines

As I mark my 100th column, the government’s latest climate report misleads and denies. Investors may be the ones to demand change.

It's August 2025, and—in line with my first 99 columns—I have some good news and some truly bad news for America's capacity to acknowledge and plan to limit the physical risks of rapidly accelerating climate change, especially along the East Coast.

The bad news: The recent Department of Energy report titled "A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S.," which downplays the threat of climate change, contains a good deal of misleading and false information. For more detail, here's a factcheck by CarbonBrief.

A hidden world beneath Antarctica is finally coming into focus. Scientists have uncovered hundreds of massive canyons buried deep under the ice—structures that could upend what we know about ocean currents, melting glaciers, and rising seas.

Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense

Bowing to opposition from President Trump, the Healey administration put its offshore wind plans on hold yet again.

BOURNE – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has issued an alert about Vibrio bacteria in coastal waters following an infection on Cape. An individual reportedly contracted an infec…

BARNSTABLE – Barnstable County officials say there has been a drastic increase in financial need from Cape Cod homeowners who are working to comply with new Massachusetts Title 5 regulations. Count…

FALMOUTH , MA– The Town of Falmouth is proposing to build an outfall pipe for treated wastewater discharging into Nantucket Sound. The town says by sewering the densely-developed south coast area and c…

​​This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was

This story was produced with support from the LOR Foundation. LOR works with people in rural places to improve quality of life. Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter.

Provincetown and the Bearing Sea coastal village of Mertarvik are just about as far away as two places can be in the United States. But students in both communities have found one big piece of common ground — growing up in a rapidly changing climate.

As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim in July 2025, the air turned toxic. A chlorine gas leak had erupted from

As federal officials cut public access to climate data, one critical source is beyond their reach. This Wednesday, August 20, you will learn why.

“Berkeley Earth may now be the single most important source of reliable global-to-local climate data,” according to In This Together Founder and CEO of Solution Citizen, Bill Shireman. “Its dedication to bias-free scientific investigation is unmatched. It receives no government funding, so is immune from the cuts currently being made. Bill Gates and Charles Koch both contributed to its founding, despite their opposing views on climate policy, because they knew it could be trusted. Now, with their coming launch of a new data stream, their importance rises to a whole new level,“ says Shireman, who has been a board member of Berkeley Earth since near its inception."

At a time when federal cuts are slashing or eliminating crucial climate programs, Berkeley Earth is one organization stepping up to fill much-needed gaps in climate monitoring and data products.

Mound and Ramsey are among the cities that have warned residents their drinking water might contain unsafe levels of manganese. Solutions can be costly.

Harwich, MA--Health officials say that risk is low but residents should be aware of vibrio bacteria infection, or so-called ‘flesh eating bacteria’ after a case was reported on Cape.

Local and state health officials confirmed on Friday a rare case of Vibrio vulnificus infection happened to someone swimming at Old Silver Beach in Falmouth.

With federal roadblocks to clean energy, Massachusetts is eyeing Canadian offshore wind to meet climate goals and make the grid more affordable. But the switch could mean fewer local jobs and potential transmission infrastructure hurdles ahead.

BOSTON – The New England Aquarium recently conducted another aerial survey of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument and counted over 1,000 marine animals. During the July 24t…