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NPR Climate Solutions Week

Disaster season is coming. Here are three things you can do to prepare

NPR | By Michael Copley
Published May 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM MDT

We look at three things homeowners and renters can do ahead of the summer disaster season to try to ensure any insurance claims they have to file are handled as quickly as possible.

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Michael Copley
Michael Copley is a correspondent on NPR's Climate Desk. He covers what corporations are and are not doing in response to climate change, and how they're being impacted by rising temperatures.
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