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Nighttime Heat Stress Is Outpacing Daytime Warming Worldwide

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Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population - Nature Climate Change
The authors assess global changes in heat stress since 1950, considering daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound day–night events. They show multidimensional intensification, with an increased frequency of extremes and expanded spatial and temporal footprints of heat stress on humans.
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September 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Philadelphia spent $17 million installing air conditioning at Kensington High School.

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https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/48/lived/article/37303/seven-miles-to-school?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=lived_feature
Seven Miles to School | The Docket
An asbestos accident during a cooling upgrade displaces Kensington High families seven miles away, replacing one burden with another.
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September 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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A new study finds heat advisories are built on the wrong metric. They flag daily highs, but not hourly exposure.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02724-8?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=science_news
Globally and intergenerationally unequal exposure to hourly heat extremes - Nature Climate Change
The authors quantify the global emergence of hourly heat extremes (HHEs), highlighting exposure overlooked by daily metrics. HHEs will increase fourfold by the end of the century under high emissions, with low- and middle-income countries, as well as successive generations, facing disproportionate exposure.
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September 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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The County Has Air Conditioning. The Room Does Not.

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The County Has Air Conditioning. The Room Does Not. | The Docket
County AC statistics say Maricopa is protected from heat death. Autopsy reports and broken units say something else.
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September 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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A 13-year analysis of nearly 66,000 Valley fever cases found recently fallowed farmland correlates with higher infection rates — and the risk shifts depending on…

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Globally and intergenerationally unequal exposure to hourly heat extremes - Nature Climate Change
The authors quantify the global emergence of hourly heat extremes (HHEs), highlighting exposure overlooked by daily metrics. HHEs will increase fourfold by the end of the century under high emissions, with low- and middle-income countries, as well as successive generations, facing disproportionate exposure.
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September 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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The Water Haul

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The Water Haul | The Docket
A third-generation Colorado ranch hauls water nine hours daily through record drought, and the federal program meant to help pays eleven cents a gallon.
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September 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Two Homes, One Question: The Room on Winston Drive

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Two Homes, One Question: The Room on Winston Drive | The Docket
A Spokane family's nursery tested positive for lead after wildfire, but no agency covers homes that survived too well.
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September 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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New fiction from The Docket: in coastal North Carolina, government buyout programs are quietly reshaping property values—each accepted offer…

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Sunday | The Docket
A family argues over a government buyout of their grandmother's flood-prone coastal home, each holding a position no one can resolve.
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September 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Two Homes, One Question: The Chain That Held in Loxley

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September 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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A new attribution study lines up over a century of tide-gauge records against CMIP5 model runs to isolate the human fingerprint on sea…

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Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900 - Nature Climate Change
Sea-level rise in conjunction with storm surge and tidal variations leads to extreme sea levels that threaten coastal systems. Here the authors use tide-gauge data and models to quantify how anthropogenic climate change has increased the risk of these extreme sea-level events since 1900.
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September 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Joyce Craven owns her manufactured home in North Phoenix but not the land beneath it.

https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/47/lived/article/36563/joyce-cravens-one-cool-room?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_47&utm_content=lived_feature
Joyce Craven's One Cool Room | The Docket
A Phoenix mobile home owner's summer compressed into one bedroom shows how split ownership, aging wiring, and a depreciating house defeat the legal right to cool.
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September 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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NOAA Annual High Tide Flooding Outlook, 2026–2027

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September 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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The Hundred-Year Label

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The Hundred-Year Label | The Docket
How a statistical threshold chosen in a day and a half in 1968 became the regulatory foundation of U.S. flood insurance, and what happened at the gauges afterward.
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September 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Big Rock

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Big Rock | The Docket
On Montana's Boulder River, a fishing guide takes a temperature reading that the cleared sky and his waiting clients have no way to see.
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September 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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More Concentrated Precipitation Decreases Terrestrial Water Storage

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10487-7?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=science_news
More concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage - Nature
Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.
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September 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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New Orleans drained its swamps in the 1890s to stop yellow fever, which had killed nearly 8,000 people in a…

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https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/46/archive/article/35758/how-new-orleans-drained-its-way-below-sea?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=archive_feature
How New Orleans Drained Its Way Below Sea Level | The Docket
How draining swampland to end yellow fever caused a century of subsidence that left most of New Orleans below sea level.
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September 3, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Forty years of U.S. crop data show flash droughts — soil moisture crashes over days, not weeks — cut national yields by 2 to 7%, more than…

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03556-2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=science_news
Flash droughts reduce national-scale crop yields in the United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Intensified and prolonged flash droughts reduce summer crop yields in the United States, mainly via soil moisture stress, according to a study that integrates multiple data sources and structural equation modeling.
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September 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Kim Pierce closed on a North Carolina townhome on September 23, 2024. Hurricane Helene flooded it four days later.

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https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/46/lived/article/35699/four-days-of-ownership?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=lived_feature
Four Days of Ownership | The Docket
A homeowner who lived in her townhome four days before Helene is paying on two properties while a buyout that keeps not closing runs its course.
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September 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Coastal Flooding at Predictable Hours

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75710-5?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=science_news
Coastal flooding at predictable hours - Nature Communications
The study shows that coastal floods in tide-dominated regions often occur at predictable hours, enabling more targeted warnings, emergency planning, and time-sensitive adaptation.
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September 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Nine Hours for a Day's Water

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Nine Hours for a Day's Water | The Docket
A Colorado rancher hauls water nine hours a day for 800 cattle, and every resource keeping the operation going is drawing down at once.
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September 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Fire Weather Waves Drive Extreme Fires Globally

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03858-5?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=science_news
Fire weather waves drive extreme fires globally - Communications Earth & Environment
Fire weather waves are strongly linked to both overall fire activity and the most extreme wildfire events, highlighting their value as a predictor of fire risk, based on an analysis of fire, fire weather index, and meteorological data.
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August 31, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Five Numbers for One House

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Five Numbers for One House | The Docket
Five institutional systems price the same climate-stressed house differently, the gaps are widening, and only the homeowner has to reconcile them.
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August 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Smoke Day

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Smoke Day | The Docket
Nineteen days of smoke mode, and the sealed high school is the only place she and her best friend have to avoid each other.
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August 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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A study across 796 river basins finds water temperatures often stay dangerously high for days after air temperatures drop following a heatwave.

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-02040-y?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_45&utm_content=science_news
Threefold increase in atmospheric–riverine compound heatwaves under climate change - Nature Geoscience
Co-occurring atmospheric and river heatwaves have tripled since the 1980s across the USA and Europe, and are projected to become the norm by 2100, according to model simulations.
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August 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Your Mortgage Says You're Covered. Your Roof Claim Says Otherwise.

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https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/45/systems/article/35013/your-mortgage-says-youre-covered-your-roof-claim?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_45&utm_content=systems_feature
Your Mortgage Says You're Covered. Your Roof Claim Says Otherwise. | The Docket
How a federal policy change lets mortgage-compliant insurance pay thousands less than a roof replacement costs, and who absorbs the difference.
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August 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM