By the End of the Century 44,000 People Will Die Every Year From Wildfire Smoke
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wildfire smoke is creating a public health crisis. Last year, nearly every county in Montana was declared a disaster area. As wildfires raged, respiratory-related visits to emergency rooms spiked. In Lolo, Montana, officials installed new air filters in schools to improve air…
Some Suggestions for Weathering the Next Florence
Sean Rayford/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. As the country watched floodwaters rise across the Carolinas in the wake of Hurricane Florence this month, Puerto Ricans were still reeling from a storm that tore through the…
5 People Died From Eating Lettuce But Trump’s FDA Still Won’t Make Farms Test Water for Bacteria
Justin Sullivan/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. William Whitt suffered violent diarrhea for days. But once he began vomiting blood, he knew it was time to rush to the hospital. His body swelled up so much…
Two Weeks After Florence, We Still Don’t Know How Toxic Carolina Waterways Are
A drone video capturing coal ash streaming out of a dump and flowing toward the Cape Fear RiverNorth Carolina Department of Environmental Quality/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As soon as it was safe to send a team out, Donna Lisenby, a global advocacy manager with Waterkeeper Alliance who is…
A Federal Judge Restored Endangered Species Protection for Grizzlies in Yellowstone
Will Powers/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge on Monday restored endangered species protection to about 700 grizzly bears living in or around Yellowstone National Park just days before Wyoming and…
Climate Change Will Ravage US National Parks
Most of Joshua Tree national park could become uninhabitable due to climate change.Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s national parks have warmed twice as fast as the US average and could see…