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 Delicate Art and Evolving Science of Wildfire Evacuations
Residents evacuate along Sierra Highway in Canyon Country in the Tick fire in Canyon Country, CA October 24, 2019.David Crane/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and…
Texas Signed off on the Restoration of This Old Coal Mine. Now a Leaky Landfill Is Contaminating Groundwater.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune This story was originally published by Grist and The Texas Tribune and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It seems like everyone in Rockdale is talking about Sandow Lakes Ranch. That’s because so many residents of this old mining hub in Central Texas believe that the fate of the…
How to See Fall Colors Without a Car
The fall tree colors on Max Patch, a bald mountain located along the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina.George Rose/Getty This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid farm fields in upstate New York is a wooden platform that serves as the Appalachian Trail’s very own train station. It…
As the Planet Warms, Diseases Thrive Where They Didn’t Before
In this Oct. 13, 2008 photo, Lucila Huerta, tends to her husband Guadalupe, who is suffering from Valley Fever and other medical problems, in their apartment in Madera, Calif.John Walker/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the first locally acquired case of Valley fever…
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…