After a Historic and Deadly Fire Season, California Homeowners Struggle to Stay Insured
A wildfire consumes a Ventura home in December, 2017. Jae C. Hong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The spate of deadly wildfires that tore through California in the second half of 2017 scorched more than 21,000 homes. As the millions of residents living at the cusp of the state’s forests and mountains…
The East Coast Is About to Get Hit by a “Bomb Cyclone”
Sub-zero temperatures are expected across the northeastern United States.Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Much of the eastern United States has been assaulted by brutally cold temperatures over the last week. New Year’s Eve revelers in New York City rang in 2018 in 9 degree weather—the coldest midnight…
Here’s One Important Lesson From 2017’s Environmental Disasters
Kenneth Song/Santa Barbara News-Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This past year, 2017, was the worst fire season in American history. Over 9.5 million acres burned across North America. Firefighting efforts cost $2 billion. This past year, 2017, was…
These 16 Major Environmental Protections Were Cut in 2017
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and…
In Case You Missed Them, Here Are Some Cool Environmental Stories from 2017
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was a tempestuous year—politically and literally. Donald Trump’s June announcement of an exit from the Paris climate accord confirmed the fears around the world of scientists…
2017 Was a Big Year for Scrubbing Science from Government Websites. Here’s the List.
John Foxx/Stockbyte/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Moments after President Donald Trump took the oath of office last January, nearly all references to climate change disappeared from the White House official website. A page detailing former President Barack Obama’s plans to build a clean energy economy, address climate change, and protect…