By Aparna Nathan Last summer, satellite cameras captured a strange image: a shroud of smoke hovering over the Arctic. But beneath these still, swirling clouds, towers of flames punctuated the bleak expanses. In short, the Arctic was on fire. The… Read More ›
From “As Venezuela Enters 3rd Month Of Protests, Anti-Maduro Ire Finds New Target,” in NPR By Colin Dwyer It has been more than 60 days since Venezuela’s Supreme Court moved to dissolve the country’s National Assembly. The move, intended to… Read More ›
By Alejandro Davila Fragoso When Meraldo Umiña moved to the Madre De Dios region of Peru in 1983, the toxic gold rush that’s destroyed swaths of Amazon rainforest there was in its infancy. There were no laws regulating informal or… Read More ›
By Jeremy Deaton On Sunday, for a brief, shining moment, renewable power output in Germany reached 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand. That’s a big deal. On May 8th, at 11 a.m. local time, the total output of… Read More ›
By Dan Fagin THE national tourism agency calls the Mexican mountain town of Angangueo a “Pueblo Mágico.” If so, it is a dark magic. In recent years, Angangueo’s 5,000 inhabitants have been cursed by calamities natural and manufactured. Snowstorms, mudslides… Read More ›
By Coral Davenport and Gardiner Harris LE BOURGET, France — One of the largest gatherings of world leaders in history began a multinational effort Monday toward forging what many called the planet’s last, best hope to stave off the worst… Read More ›
By Justin Worland Here are the U.S. cities with the most ozone pollution in 2015: California is well-represented on the list & in the article. 1. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA 2. Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA 3. Bakersfield, CA 4. Fresno-Madera, CA 5…. Read More ›
By Claire Rigby in The Guardian From downtown São Paulo, the Pico do Jaraguá – the crest of a mountain ridge on the city’s north-western horizon – looks like a broken tooth, crowned by a towering TV antenna. Just beyond… Read More ›
By Leonard Pitts The argument is over and conservatives have lost. Some of them just don’t know it yet. That’s the takeaway from the remarkable events of last week wherein the states of Indiana and Arkansas executed high-speed U-turns —… Read More ›
Average Number of Days above 95 degrees Along the coast, rising sea-levels will likely put billions of dollars of property and infrastructure at risk. Further inland, increasingly warm and dry conditions threaten the productivity of one of the richest agricultural… Read More ›
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