Hurricane Florence Is Absolutely Soaking the Carolinas—and It’s a Harbinger of Storms to Come
Flood waters from the Trent River inundate a park in Pollocksville, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence made landfall on September 14. Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina Friday, significantly raising sea levels in the Outer Banks and creating a “life-threatening inland…
You’ll Want to Blast This Defiant Late-Summer Anthem All Weekend
(E News/AdMedia/Kathy Hutchins) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s a new weekly series for you over on our Instagram feed, “Friday Find.” Each week, we’ll spotlight a song, artist, or record we have on repeat as the weekend blasts off, in a bid to introduce emerging, diverse acts to your…
This Nuclear Power Plant Is Designed Like Fukushima—and Florence Is Heading Straight for It
Rolf Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 11, 2011, a one-two, earthquake-tsunami punch knocked out the safety systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, triggering an explosion of hydrogen gas and meltdowns…
The Russian Hacking of 2016 Was Just a Taste. Here’s What We Could Be In For.
Adam Vieyra; Zocha_K/Getty; MLADN61_Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oleh Derevianko was on the road to his parents’ village in Ukraine on a bright June day in 2017 when he got a call from the CEO of a telecommunications company. Computer systems were failing at Oschadbank, one of the largest…
The Most Effective Way for Democrats to Fight Trump’s Agenda Isn’t Where You Think It Is
Dana Nessel, the Democratic candidate for state attorney general in Michigan Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, announced in June that he planned to leave Congress to run for attorney general in his home…
Climate Summit Protesters Want Policies That Don’t Leave Marginalized Groups Behind
Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An international collection of delegates in suits filed into San Francisco’s Moscone Center Thursday morning to take action on climate change. They had assembled, in part, in defiance of…