These Villages Battled a Blaze to Save Their Trees
Hajanirinta Rarivoarison, who goes by Haja, holds up a native sohisika seedling in a nursery built near Ankafobe Forest. Several of them burned down during the 2014 fire, but have since been rebuilt.Erik Vance This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At first, the fire didn’t look…
Soon We May All Be Suffering from Climate Whiplash
Night long exposure photograph of the Santa Clarita wildfire in CA./Getty This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by…
This City May Become a Magnet for Climate Refugees
The inner harbor of Buffalo, New York on Lake Erie.Universal Images Group/Getty This piece was originally published in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Maria Robles saw rainfall so severe that it punched a hole through her roof and flooded her home in San…
Unplugging PG&E Is Easier Said Than Done
Firefighters battle the Kincade Fire in Healdsburg in October 2019.Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images As California finally takes control of the fires that have been burning for weeks, PG&E is—and will continue to be—in the hot seat. It seems likely that transmission equipment from the utility, which supplies power for roughly 40 percent of Californians, sparked…
Want to Know What Climate Change Feels Like? Ask an Alaskan.
A brush fire burns in South Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.Loren Holmes/AP This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Adrienne Titus was heading back to her parents’ village on a sweltering afternoon in early July when she saw the dead salmon. She had…
Over One Million People Are Currently Without Power in California Due to PG&E Shutdowns
Fire burns around PG&E transmission towers, Monday, November 12, 2018, east of Pulga,Calif., near the first reports of the 2018 Camp Fire. Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images Update, Wednesday Oct. 9, 2019, 5:15pm: The second phase of outages scheduled to start at noon and affecting over 200,000 customers was delayed. PG&E said…