Climate-Fueled Wildfires Inspire a New Lifeline for Homeless Families
Alma Alvarez and her three children were among the first families to move into the Redwood Inn.Film still by Brandon Yadegari Moreno Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by High Country News and is…
Zombie Fires in the Arctic Are an Environmental Time Bomb
Peat fires will get more frequent with hotter summers and melting ice.Khosrork/iStock/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Each winter, as snow blankets…
Spending by G7 Nations Favors Fossil Fuel Interests Over Green Energy
Steve Parsons/PA Wire/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by the Guardian and reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of…
Get Ready for Another “Active” Hurricane Season in 2021
Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after Hurricane Rita in 2005. Mark Faram/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Tuesday marked the official start of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, a foreboding milestone coinciding with the meteorological summer—and a precursor…
Foreign Firms Sucking “Virtual” Water From America’s Parched Southwest
David McNew/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This article was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Driving into Southern California’s Palo Verde Valley from the Arizona border,…
As Texas Enters Another Hot Summer, Lawmakers Kill Effort to Cool Sweltering Prisons
Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the summer, Texas prisons become hell itself. Most prisons lack air conditioning in housing areas, and temperatures inside can rise above 100 degrees. People confined to their cells…