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Hurricane Harvey packs political perils for Trump.

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The crime scene is underwater in Netflix’s new documentary thriller.

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The Dutch have solutions to rising seas. The world is watching.

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Exxon, Shell and other carbon producers sued for sea level rises in California.

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When rising seas transform risk into certainty.

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As rising seas erode shorelines, Tasmania shows what can be lost.

By JUSTIN GILLISApril 26, 2017ISLE OF THE DEAD, Tasmania — Maybe the hardened convicts who carved the 19th-century gravestones dotting this tiny island were barely literate,...

US coastal growth continues despite lessons of past storms.

Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new Associated Press analysis...

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