2 Weeks After Hurricane Dorian, a New Disaster Threatens the Bahamas
Joseph Darville of Waterkeepers Bahamas surveys damage.Waterkeepers Bahamas Joseph Darville lives on Grand Bahama Island, and when he first heard there was an oil spill there after Hurricane Dorian what came to mind, he says, was “our pristine, beautiful beach and shallow waters.” The grassy banks are home to turtles and bonefish. And there’s the…
Trump Tried to Bully NOAA. Its Chief Scientist Just Released a Remarkable Letter to Fight Back.
Evan Vucci/AP NOAA Acting Chief Scientist Craig McLean sent a letter over the weekend to the agency’s staff to address the controversy that ensued after President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama. On Tuesday, NOAA publicly released that letter, following a wild week when the normally understated agency was in…
Hurricane Dorian Survivors Feel Abandoned
Ramon Espinosa/AP This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The silence along the Grand Bahama highway, the only major road on the island, is foreboding, punctuated only by the occasional truck driving east. The once dense forest on either side of the road has turned to bare…
We Have Some Bad News About Trees
Frans Lemmens/ Corbis Unreleased/Getty This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bob Marra navigated his way to the back of a dusty barn in Hamden, Connecticut, belonging to the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station. There, past piles of empty beehives, on a wall of metal shelves, were stacks of wooden…
You Don’t Need a President to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post/Getty This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Official warnings about Hurricane Dorian, which continues on its tight-spinning crawl along the Southeastern US coast, have now been supplemented, underscored, and bungled by the nation’s president. Amid the chaotic weather reports emanating from his mouth and Twitter feed, Trump has already mistakenly declared…
Hurricane Dorian Could Slam 67 Toxic Sites. But Hundreds More Are at Risk.
A Superfund site in North Carolina in 2014.Chuck Burton/AP Ten days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reversed an Obama administration directive that required infrastructure projects using federal funding—like roadways and stormwater infrastructure—to be designed to accommodate the rising sea levels associated…