Should We Relocate Species That Can’t Keep Up With Climate Change?
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Like many Westerners, giant sequoias came recently from farther east. Of course, “recent” is a relative term. “You’re talking millions of years (ago),” William Libby said. The…
One Year After Harvey, Houston Awaits the Next Flood
Julie Dermansky/ZUMA Wire 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. Darlene Wilkens’ branch of Spartan Insurance had flooded before, but never like this. A year ago, as she watched horrifying coverage of Hurricane Harvey from home, she realized her…
Australia Just Killed Off Another Prime Minister in Its Endless Showdown Over Climate Policy
A live-feed from the Australian parliament.Camay Sungu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Among the many reasons Americans love Australia, the main one is that even though there is no language barrier, it’s so intensely… foreign. They don’t really get it. Fair enough. There’s that whole parliamentary thing, cute but disgruntled marsupials, all the things that can…
Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
Ed Reinke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 16, Miguel Angel Guzman Chavez arrived in Georgia from Mexico. He was 24 years old and went right to work picking tomatoes. The Georgia heat was consistently more than 90 degrees, and on June 21, the temperature soared to 95 degrees. That day, Chavez collapsed…
Hawaiians Are Using Lessons From Maria to Prepare for “Dangerous” Hurricane Lane
“We are expecting large amounts of rain, flooding and high winds,” Ige said. “There will be significant impacts even if the hurricane doesn’t hit us directly.” Hurricane Lane caused some panic as it moved closer to the islands and strengthened into a Category 5 storm late Tuesday night before weakening to Category 4 on Wednesday…
In the Rural West: More Oil, More Gas, More Ozone
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Grand Junction, Colorado seemed like the perfect spot for Jerry Nelson and his wife to retire from Champaign, Illinois, where he had been an economics professor at the University of Illinois. Ringed…