Blogging the End of the World™
By Jason Hickel 12 September 2018 (Foreign Policy) – Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish stocks and insect populations. These crises are being driven by global […]
By Paloma Esquivel 20 September 2018 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Los Angeles Times) – The rain falling into Bianca Cruz Pichardo’s home in Puerto Rico’s capital forms a small stream from her living room to the kitchen, past a cabinet elevated by cinder blocks. The living room is dark, save for some light coming from […]
By Maria Socorro Oyola 20 September 2018 (NBC News) – In the days and weeks after Hurricane Maria, friends and family never turned their backs on me. Through all the havoc that these storms brought to Puerto Rico and to the Puerto Rican people, I cannot quite put into words how it felt to know […]
By Bob Henson 17 September 2018 (Weather Underground) – Almost three weeks since it was first classified by the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Depression Florence is spreading heavy rain and flood risk toward the Northeast U.S., and its aftermath is still plaguing the Carolinas. Florence, which is being tracked by the NOAA/NWS Weather Prediction Center […]
By Reis Thebault 19 September 2018 (The Washington Post) – President Trump, clearly, has an eye for luxury — even in the most unexpected circumstances. Walking along River Drive in New Bern, N.C., a low-lying neighborhood that was pummeled by a one-two punch of Hurricane Florence and post-storm flooding, Trump greeted residents and surveyed the […]
By Paul P. Murphy September 18, 2018 (CNN) – Aerial images captured the destruction Hurricane Florence inflicted on the North Carolina coastline, from lines of houses shorn of their shingles to sand-covered streets. The pictures were shot by planes outfitted with cameras taking “high-definition aerial photos” and collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. […]
By Thomas Page 18 September 2018 (CNN) – They look lifted from the pages of science fiction: like industrial monoliths from Blade Runner, or the Martian pods in “War of the Worlds.” But these giant towers, looming over the skyline of Delhi, India, land with benevolent intentions.”The Smog Project,” designed by Dubai-based architecture firm Znera […]
By Matthew Brown 18 September 2018 BILLINGS, Montana (AP) – The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era rule that forced energy companies to capture methane — a key contributor to climate change that’s released in huge amounts during drilling on U.S. and tribal lands. A replacement rule from the Interior Department rescinds mandates […]
By Joseph Siess 17 September 2018 (DeSmogBlog) – In June, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry traveled to Bariloche, Argentina, for a G20 Summit where he expressed his desire to help Argentina become more like Texas, his home state.“The technology that has allowed for the shale gas revolution in America, we want to make available […]
By Holly Yan, Susannah Cullinane, and Cassie Spodak 17 September 2018 WILMINGTON, North Carolina (CNN) – Even as Florence leaves the Carolinas, the floodwaters and death toll keep rising. The storm once known as Hurricane Florence has killed 20 people, trapped hundreds more and cut off an entire city. But forecasters say the worst flooding […]
