It’s not just mosquitos. Flooding, extreme heat and other climate-related hazards are bringing people into contact with pathogens more often, and affecting people’s ability to fight off disease.

As recent deluges in St. Louis and Kentucky show, flash flooding can happen in urban and rural areas, with deadly results in either setting.

Climate change is colliding with old factory sites where soil or water contamination still exist, and the most vulnerable populations are particularly at risk.

Extreme downpours caught people off guard from Las Vegas to Kentucky in July 2022.

Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.

Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.

Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.

Yellowstone’s destructive flooding was a taste of the risks ahead in a warming world, and it’s just one example.

Yellowstone’s destructive flooding was a taste of the risks ahead in a warming world, and it’s just one example.

Experts say flooding in Yellowstone National Park was a 1-in-500-year-event. Elizabeth Hadly explains its connection to the future of global climate change.