As the Planet Warms, Diseases Thrive Where They Didn’t Before
In this Oct. 13, 2008 photo, Lucila Huerta, tends to her husband Guadalupe, who is suffering from Valley Fever and other medical problems, in their apartment in Madera, Calif.John Walker/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the first locally acquired case of Valley fever…
What Did Hurricane Dorian Do to the Bahamas’ Coral Reefs?
ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the people of the Bahamas struggle to recover from Hurricane Dorian, the strongest storm in the nation’s history, a team of scientists is setting out to assess the damage to the vibrant coral reefs…
Google Has Made Some Generous Contributions to Climate Change Deniers
David Paul Morris/Getty This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis. Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its…
Want to Know What Climate Change Feels Like? Ask an Alaskan.
A brush fire burns in South Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.Loren Holmes/AP This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adrienne Titus was heading back to her parents’ village on a sweltering afternoon in early July when she saw the dead salmon. She had…
Solutions to Climate Change Cannot Overlook This One Key Factor
Workers fixing a rooftop destroyed by Hurricane Maria.Elizabeth Flores/ZUMA This story was originally published by The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of the UN Climate Summit this month, the Global Commission on Adaptation, chaired by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates,…
Some Indigenous Communities Have a New Way to Fight Climate Change: Give Personhood Rights to Nature
Four Yurok girls garbed in traditional tribal ceremonial clothing stand before the mouth of the Klamath River.Will Houston/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This summer, the Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River—likely the first to do so for a river…