By Laura Paddison 27 May 2023 (CNN) â âMurderers.â âCriminals.â âWe are watching you.â These are just a handful of the threats and abuse sent to meteorologists at AEMET, Spainâs national weather agency, in recent months. They come via social media, its website, letters, phone calls â even in the form of graffiti sprayed across […]
By Robyn White 23 May 2023 (Newsweek) â A ghost lake in California could expand to the size of Lake Tahoe. Lake Tulare in the San Joaquin Valley used to be the largest freshwater lake in the Western U.S. It dried up some 80 years ago when the land was re-developed for agricultural purposes. But […]
By Nimi Princewill and Ella Nilsen 21 May 2023 Cotonou, Benin (CNN) â Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the price of a dark red car. It is one of a couple hundred vehicles, parked in long lines stretching out across the vast lot â […]
By Ian Austen 20 May 2023 (The New York Times) â When I arrived in Alberta recently to report an upcoming political story, there was no shortage of people wanting to talk about politics and the provincial election on May 29. But, even as wildfires flared earlier than usual and raged across an unusually wide […]
By Scott Dance 11 May 2023 (The Washington Post) â Weeks after the surface of Lake Powell sunk to an all-time low, the key Colorado River reservoir is rising more than a foot a day â on track to deepen by some 70 feet in the coming months. Spring flows into the lake are among the […]
By Terry Castleman 10 May 2023 (Los Angeles Times) â After a series of atmospheric rivers and cold weather hit California, this yearâs snowpack was one of the biggest in history. âThis yearâs result will go down as one of the largest snowpack years on record in California,â Sean de Guzman, manager of the Department of Water Resourcesâ snow surveys, said […]
By Sara Moniuszko and Danya Bacchus 16 May 2023 (CBS News) â Despite years of efforts to reduce health disparities, a new study is calling attention to the drastic differences in mortality that continue to take a toll among Black Americans. Researchers found the Black population in the United States experienced more than 1.63 million excess […]
By Dan Witters 17 May 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Gallup) â The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29.0%, nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015. The percentage of Americans who currently have or are being treated for depression has also increased, […]
By Nia Williams 5 May 2023 (Reuters) â A week of record hot weather in western Canada has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes, as wildfires rage in parts of Alberta and rapid snow melt triggers flooding across interior British Columbia. By Friday, more than 13,000 people were under evacuation orders in Alberta, […]
3 May 2023 (RSF) â According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index â which evaluates the environment for journalism in 180 countries and territories and is published on World Press Freedom Day (3 May) â the situation is âvery seriousâ in 31 countries, âdifficultâ in 42, âproblematicâ in 55, and âgoodâ or âsatisfactoryâ in 52 countries. In […]