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Troubled local news outlets face a new risk: climate change New research identifies the U.S. communities facing the double jeopardy of climate disaster and a lack of news sources.

by Srishti Bose

KCHU, the public radio station in Valdez, Alaska, is used to living on the edge. For two months, its AM transmitter leaned precariously over the Valdez Glacier Stream as seasonal flooding from melting glaciers, called “glacial outburst events,” caused unprecedented erosion on its banks. The transmitter was removed in August to prevent it from imminent collapse, ending KCHU's AM transmission. To make matters worse, in July, KCHU also lost the bulk of its budget when Congress eliminated more than...

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