The Photos of Wildfires Raging Across Australia Are Devastating
Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Residents of Sydney, Australia, are bracing for the worst as catastrophic bushfires rage across the state of New South Wales. Though Australia’s summer fire season has just begun, 150,000 hectares of land have already burned in one fire alone, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Since Friday, the fire has killed three people and…
Voters Want Presidential Action on Climate—With or Without Congressional Support
John Nowak, ZUMA Last month, in a joint interview with Mother Jones and The Weather Channel, Elizabeth Warren promised that if elected, she’d use the power of the president to address climate change. “I will use all the executive power tools available to me to fight back against the climate crisis,” she said. Listing a…
California’s Wildfire Policy Totally Backfired. Native Communities Know How to Fix It.
When it came time to set fire to the hillside, Kitty Lynch paused. A 70 year-old retired waitress, Lynch’s job during the controlled burn of a 2,200 acre ranch in Humboldt County, California this June was to keep the fire in check by tamping down small, errant flames with a tool called a McLeod. Lynch…
California Could Have Helped Low-Income Residents Weather PG&E Blackouts. But It Didn’t Happen.
Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, CA.Will Lester/Getty This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Exactly a year ago, as the devastating Camp Fire swept through the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Frank A. Jr. Funes, a…
The Federal Reserve Acknowledged the Reality of Climate Change. That’s Actually a Big Deal.
US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard Eric Baradat/Getty During a conference on climate change and the economy in San Francisco, one year after the deadly Campfire’s wildfire smoke made the city’s air quality among the worst on the planet, the Federal Reserve announced that it would incorporate climate change into its considerations when making policy…
This Is What Happened at the First Presidential Environmental Justice Forum
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and moderators Mustafa Ali and Amy Goodman at the South Carolina State University environmental justice presidential forum.Sean Rayford/Stringer/Getty This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Only six candidates turned out for the first ever presidential forum on environmental justice at South Carolina…