Scott Sklar got started making his home climate-friendly in the 1980s thanks to his expertise and connections. Nowadays, any homeowner can do the same.
In the 1990s, Jay Warmke and his wife Annie of Philo, Ohio, started building a house made from tires. It’s a so-called “earthship,” a type of home designed to have minimal environmental impact. Its ...
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Whitebark pines are under attack from an invasive fungus. But foresters are using seeds from survivors of the infection to replant decimated landscapes.
Aimee Tomcho is with the foundation’s Field to Forest program. It pays landowners in Georgia to convert at least 40 acres to forest planted with loblolly pine, a tree native to the Southeast. As these ...
Milton’s 11% increase in winds because of human-caused climate change likely made it nearly twice as destructive.
Milton tocó tierra cerca de Sarasota como categoría 3, causando daños graves con sus vientos, marejada ciclónica, lluvias y ...
A sense of security holds great value in the human psyche. But it’s a fragile and malleable state. In addition to hard metrics like the death toll and number of homes destroyed, Helene swept away that ...
Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz lived through Hurricane Maria. She’s now the vice director of the American Bar Association’s Disaster Legal Services program.
Milton is the tenth major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast since 2017. Prior to ...
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Wildfires destroy vegetation and coat the soil with a waxy surface, preventing water from seeping into the ground and increasing runoff. So when rain hits a burn scar, that water can quickly rush ...