FEMA is About to Get Slammed by Florence
Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year after the most destructive hurricane season in American history stretched the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s resources to capacity, the government agency charged with administrating disaster relief has to prepare for the strongest storm to hit the East Coast in over a decade. …
Thousands of Prisoners Are Being Forced to Stay During Hurricane Florence
A Texas State prison unit remained submerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey last year.Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than one million residents have been ordered to evacuate regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia in the face of Hurricane Florence, the Category 4 storm expected to…
National Park Officials Scrubbed Climate Change From Key Report
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke speaks to President Donald Trump during the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in Washington, DC on Nov. 30, 2017. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Park officials scrubbed all…
Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years
Hurricane Florence as seen from the International Space Station on September 10.Ricky Arnold/NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence, expected to make landfall sometime Thursday, will bring dangerous winds and torrential rainfall to an area of the country that has already been drenched by historic amounts of rain this summer. On…
Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
New Documents Show the Trump Administration Cut Climate Change Impacts from its Energy Plan
Aaron Lavinsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the administration’s recent rollback…