Natural disasters

Arnetra Rhodes

Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Feel Safe Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Feel Safe

At a rally at the facility where a tornado killed six people, protesters from across the region demanded better protections for workers.

Feb 17, 2022 / Sophie Hurwitz

Averting Climate Catastrophe Should Be Issue Number One

Averting Climate Catastrophe Should Be Issue Number One Averting Climate Catastrophe Should Be Issue Number One

And now is the time to explain why.

Dec 25, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich

Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Louisiana Leaving Devastation In Its Wake

Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad. Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad.

Future widespread suffering won’t be caused by some unforeseen disaster but by all-too-obvious, painfully predictable reasons.

Dec 20, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Louisiana Leaving Devastation In Its Wake

The Fog After the Storm The Fog After the Storm

The effects of a hurricane don’t end when the wind stops blowing.

Nov 30, 2021 / Mary Annaïse Heglar

Hurricane Ida Bears Down On Louisiana As A Major Storm

Before the Storm: How Do You Know When to Go? Before the Storm: How Do You Know When to Go?

Even on the eve of a Category 4 hurricane, choosing to leave is never easy.

Nov 23, 2021 / Mary Annaïse Heglar

Oil Refinery

Youth and Age Unite to Demand That Banks Stop Lending to Big Oil Youth and Age Unite to Demand That Banks Stop Lending to Big Oil

When both ends of the age spectrum come together, bankers had better pay attention.

Oct 22, 2021 / Column / Bill McKibben and Vidya Muthupillai

Lauren Boebert

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert Goes Full Blunderbuss Republican Representative Lauren Boebert Goes Full Blunderbuss

The insurrection cheerleader’s HR 273 would spell the end of constituent services as we know it.

Sep 24, 2021 / Tom Gogola

Democratic Republic of Congo

Do African Lives Matter? Do African Lives Matter?

The response of the outside world to the latest disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests the answer is no.

Jun 11, 2021 / James North

Texas Storm

The Real Reasons Texas’s Power Grid Is So Vulnerable The Real Reasons Texas’s Power Grid Is So Vulnerable

What’s happening in Texas is not an indicator that renewable energy is less reliable—it’s a signal that our infrastructure is frighteningly unprepared for extreme weather.

Feb 19, 2021 / Zoë Carpenter

First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror

First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror

Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented.

Sep 22, 2020 / Feature / Sonia Shah

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