Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large parts of Mumbai face increasing flood risks from storms and sea-level rise. AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool Coastal populations are ...

The Great Recession continues to reverberate in rural America and is the most likely cause of the slight decline in population from 2015 to 2016. But in other ways, rural counties appear to be headed ...

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A University of Wyoming researcher was part of a recent study that investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations’ exposure to weather extremes at the end of the ...

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This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Coastal populations are expanding quickly around the world. The rise is ...