climate

It takes years to fully recover from big storms like Sandy

Major storms can leave thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. It can take years to recover and rebuild - if at all.

The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we thought

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With hurricane season comes the usual efforts by insurance companies and government agencies to calculate the economic costs. An economist explains how they're doing it wrong.

First time – Colorado 100 percent free from drought, abnormally dry conditions

Its official - Colorado is 100 percent free from drought and abnormally dry conditions for the first time since records became available in January 2000.

Colorado – and most of the nation – now drought-free

Colorado is virtually free of all drought conditions for the first time since 2009.

Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

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Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist says that view is too simplistic and misses the bigger point.

Moderate drought exits Colorado, pockets of abnormal dryness remain

For the first time in well over a year, drought has disappeared from Colorado, leaving only pockets of abnormally dry conditions.

Colorado's dry conditions continue to shrink – looking back at drought during 2018, and what’s next

Just four months ago, over a quarter of Colorado was in extreme and exceptional drought, the two worst categories. Today, less than one percent of the state is experiencing moderate drought, with another 15 percent - mainly in the southern mountains, seeing abnormally dry conditions.