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Iowan Nick Bergus remembers being caught off guard by the derecho that pummeled his home state on Aug. 10, 2020, with hurricane-force winds, leaving billions of dollars in damage in its wake.

Fifty-seven of Iowa's 99 counties were hit by the storm, which had observed wind gusts at over 120 mph.

Jill Morrison has seen how the bust of oil and gas production can permanently scar a landscape. Near her land in north-east Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, where drilling started in 1889, more than 2,000 abandoned wells are seeping brine into the groundwater and leaking potent greenhouse gasses. The problem is getting worse. As the oil and gas industry contracts owing to the pandemic, low prices and the rise of renewables, more than 50 major...

Billion-Dollar Disasters: The Costs, in Lives and Dollars, Have Never Been So High Fueled by climate change, extreme weather set records this year, causing close to $50 billion and the loss of at least 188 lives by early October. December 29, 2020 San Miguel County Firefighters battle a brush fire along Japatul Road during the Valley Fire in Jamul, California on Sept. 6, 2020 Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article Update: The final tally, released on Jan. 8, showed that last year blew away previous annual records for extreme weather events in the United States,...