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The Season Your Heart Didn't Know It Was Having https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/54/science/article/45407/the-season-your-heart-didnt-know-it-was?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_54&utm_content=science_feature

anchor.isThe Season Your Heart Didn't Know It Was Having | The DocketNew research links weeks of wildfire smoke to heart failure and stroke hospitalizations, exposing a gap between outdoor air readings and what patients actually breathe.
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A 2025 Nature study measured how much historical farming adjustments shield six staple crops from climate… … https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/53/science/article/41857/every-adjustment-works-within-its-conditions?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_53&utm_content=science_feature

anchor.isEvery Adjustment Works, Within Its Conditions | The DocketWheat farmers' adaptations are real and skilled, but each one draws on a water budget that climate projections show shrinking.
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New research tracks soil moisture instead of rainfall to map where farmland is drying out—and the picture looks different from what precipitation data shows. More tomorrow.… https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01898-8?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_53&utm_content=science_news

doi.orgEmerging hotspots of agricultural drought under climate change - Nature GeoscienceAgricultural drought linked to past and current growing-season soil moisture is rising in Europe, southern Africa, northern South America and western North America and may persist until 2100, according to climate reanalyses and model simulations.
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A global analysis of 12,000+ agricultural regions finds farmer adaptation offsets about a third of climate-driven crop losses worldwide. Follow @docketclimate for more. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09085-w?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_53&utm_content=science_news

doi.orgImpacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation - NatureAnalysis of data on six stable crops, capturing two-thirds of global crop calories, allows estimation of agricultural impacts and the potential of global producer adaptations to reduce output losses owing to climate change.
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Eighteen months after a wildfire stopped a quarter mile from their house, three generations of one family have developed three distinct ways… … https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/52/futures/article/40686/same-wind?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_52&utm_content=futures_feature

anchor.isSame Wind | The DocketA family shares a house in wildfire country but inhabits different tenses of the same disaster, unable to synchronize their grief.
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Cardiopulmonary hospitalization risks from wildfire-specific and non-wildfire PM2.5 in 20 US states More tomorrow. Follow @docketclimate. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76974-7?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_52&utm_content=science_news

nature.comCardiopulmonary hospitalization risks from wildfire-specific and non-wildfire PM2.5 in 20 US states - Nature CommunicationsAuthors found wildfire-specific PM2.5 showed greater toxicity per unit exposure than non-wildfire PM2.5 for cardiopulmonary hospitalizations. As wildfire smoke becomes a major and growing source of air pollution, stronger mitigation strategies are needed.
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AP-NORC found that 90 percent of Americans say extreme heat affected their daily life this summer. https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/52/lab/article/40733/whats-inside-90-percent?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_52&utm_content=lab_feature

anchor.isWhat's Inside 90 Percent | The DocketThe survey says 90 percent of Americans are affected by heat. Hospital records, school closings, and utility data show how many different things that single number is covering up.
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Outside Valley Mills, Texas, about fifty households get their water from a single privately owned well. Follow for the stories… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/51/lived/article/39715/the-neighbors-bought-the-pump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_51&utm_content=lived_feature

anchor.isThe Neighbors Bought the Pump | The DocketA Texas community buys its own well pump after a private water company goes silent, exposing regulatory timelines that don't match household need.
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Outside Valley Mills, Texas, about fifty households get their water from a single privately owned well. Follow for the stories… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/51/lived/article/39715/the-neighbors-bought-the-pump?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_51&utm_content=lived_feature

anchor.isThe Neighbors Bought the Pump | The DocketA Texas community buys its own well pump after a private water company goes silent, exposing regulatory timelines that don't match household need.
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A reconstruction of 224 flood deaths in Belgium and Germany tracked something most databases skip: what… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/51/science/article/39788/what-224-european-flood-deaths-reveal-about-gaps?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_51&utm_content=science_feature

anchor.isWhat 224 European Flood Deaths Reveal About Gaps in American Flood Data | The DocketEuropean flood research traced how victims died indoors and outside mapped zones; American data systems lack the categories to determine whether the same patterns occur here.
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Steve Brewer is 75, a disabled Navy veteran on Hawaiʻi's Big Island. His power came back after Hurricane Lala. https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/51/lived/article/39714/steve-brewer-has-electricity-but-no-water?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_51&utm_content=lived_feature

anchor.isSteve Brewer Has Electricity but No Water | The DocketA disabled veteran's dry faucet, and what happens when five institutions each own a piece of habitability and nobody owns the whole thing.
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After the 1913 Miami Valley flood killed over 360 people, engineers went looking for land to absorb the next one. Follow fo… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/50/archive/article/38898/the-town-that-became-a-basin?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_50&utm_content=archive_feature

anchor.isThe Town That Became a Basin | The DocketHow Osborn, Ohio was displaced not by flood danger but because its valley was assigned to protect downstream communities.
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New in Nature Climate Change: researchers traced human-caused drying to the deep soil layers where plant roots reach once surface moisture is gone. More tomorrow. Follow @docketclima… https://www.nature.com/nclimate/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_50&utm_content=science_news

nature.comNature Climate ChangeNature Climate Change is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers that describe the most significant and cutting-edge research ...
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Municipal records in Vermont's Huntington River valley file every non-buyout household under one label: remaining residents. https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/50/lived/article/38910/two-versions-of-staying?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_50&utm_content=lived_feature

anchor.isTwo Versions of Staying | The DocketTwo Vermont floodplain households share the same river but stay for opposite reasons, revealing what "remaining resident" actually costs.
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Multilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems Follow @docketclimate for more. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02083-1?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_50&utm_content=science_news

nature.comMultilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems - Nature GeoscienceVertically compound soil moisture droughts—when all soil layers are depleted—have intensified worldwide, driving sharper ecosystem losses than single-layer droughts, according to global analyses of multilayer soil moisture.
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Bob Herber did everything an insurer could ask: new roof, cleared brush, a fire district with a top national rating, a town… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/50/lived/article/38909/bob-herber-replaced-his-roof?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_50&utm_content=lived_feature

anchor.isBob Herber Replaced His Roof | The DocketA year-round resident in Arizona fire country did everything the manual said and got dropped anyway, and the full accounting exists only in his head.
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Coastal Farms Defend Themselves Locally While Accelerating Regional Marsh Conversion Follow for the stories that fall between the headlines. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01835-6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=science_news

nature.comSea-level-driven land conversion amplified by coastal agriculture - Nature SustainabilityAs sea levels rise, coastal ecosystems and economies are threatened by saltwater intrusion and wetland encroachment. These effects are accelerated by coastal agriculture, highlighting the importance of local management interventions.
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Houston's cooling ordinance requires AC in every room of a rental. More tomorrow. Follow @docketclimate. https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/48/lab/article/37324/what-houstons-cooling-ordinance-asks-of-the-tenant?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=lab_feature

anchor.isWhat Houston's Cooling Ordinance Asks of the Tenant | The DocketEach step a Houston renter must complete to enforce the new cooling ordinance, and what each step quietly costs them.
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Nighttime Heat Stress Is Outpacing Daytime Warming Worldwide Follow @docketclimate for more. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02670-5?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=science_news

nature.comGlobal heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population - Nature Climate ChangeThe 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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Philadelphia spent $17 million installing air conditioning at Kensington High School. Follow for the stories that fall between the hea… 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

anchor.isSeven Miles to School | The DocketAn asbestos accident during a cooling upgrade displaces Kensington High families seven miles away, replacing one burden with another.
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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

nature.comGlobally and intergenerationally unequal exposure to hourly heat extremes - Nature Climate ChangeThe 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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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… https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02724-8?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_48&utm_content=science_news

nature.comGlobally and intergenerationally unequal exposure to hourly heat extremes - Nature Climate ChangeThe 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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Two Homes, One Question: The Room on Winston Drive https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/47/lived/article/36561/two-homes-one-question-the-room-on-winston?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_47&utm_content=lived_feature #ClimateMigration #ClimateAdaptation

anchor.isTwo Homes, One Question: The Room on Winston Drive | The DocketA Spokane family's nursery tested positive for lead after wildfire, but no agency covers homes that survived too well.
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New fiction from The Docket: in coastal North Carolina, government buyout programs are quietly reshaping property values—each accepted offer… Mor… https://www.anchor.is/docket/issue/47/futures/article/36615/sunday?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_47&utm_content=futures_feature

anchor.isSunday | The DocketA 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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A new attribution study lines up over a century of tide-gauge records against CMIP5 model runs to isolate the human fingerprint on sea… https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02659-0?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_47&utm_content=science_news

nature.comHuman-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900 - Nature Climate ChangeSea-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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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

anchor.isJoyce Craven's One Cool Room | The DocketA 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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More Concentrated Precipitation Decreases Terrestrial Water Storage Follow for the stories that fall between the headlines. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10487-7?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=issue_46&utm_content=science_news

nature.comMore concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage - NatureConcentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.
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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… M… 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

anchor.isHow New Orleans Drained Its Way Below Sea Level | The DocketHow draining swampland to end yellow fever caused a century of subsidence that left most of New Orleans below sea level.