Daniel is a reporter covering climate adaptation for Climatewire. He joined E&E in 2003 and has held reporting and editing positions with several E&E News publications. Before joining E&E, he worked as a newspaper, wire service and magazine journalist in Alabama and Maryland. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the University of Alabama, and was a Knight Fellow in Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.
It's nearly March in North Dakota, which means school kids in Fargo are trading book bags for sandbags to help prepare the city for another spring flood on the Red River of the North.
Conventional wisdom holds that environmental regulations chill investment and stunt economic growth. New Jersey has turned that notion upside down, according to the financial services giant Moody's Investors Service.
Government buyouts of flood-damaged homes disproportionately benefit whiter, wealthier communities, even as low-income and minority homeowners are more likely to participate in such programs, according to new research from Rice University.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will allow agency scientists to study how farmers are responding to climate change. Adaptation is a top theme over the next five years for a department that has been accused of suppressing scientific reports.
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