By Mike McPhate 25 October 2017 (The New York Times) – With a vacancy rate of around 1 percent, Santa Rosa was a tough place to find a home before its recent disaster. Then the Tubbs fire wiped out about 5 percent of city’s housing stock — roughly 3,000 homes. For some of the displaced, […]
By Angela Boldrini 27 October 2017 (Folha de São Paulo) – More than a quarter of Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has been consumed by the largest fire in its history. According to the latest report, on Tuesday (24th), 64,000 hectares (about 158,000 acres) of the Park’s 240,000 hectares (593,000 acres), were hit by the […]
By John D. Sutter 27 October 2017 Arecibo, Puerto Rico (CNN) – You won’t hear about her death from officials investigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, but you should know her name and her story. She was Isabel Rivera González.Rivera was 80. She loved to dance, and was known in this hilly enclave of Puerto […]
By Nicholas Kusnetz 20 October 2017 (Inside Climate News) – You’ve probably heard of the Keystone XL pipeline. But what about Line 67, also known as the Alberta Clipper?Nine years ago, both were controversial proposals to ship oil from Canada’s tar sands into the United States. But while Keystone XL is still awaiting approval and […]
By Bob Henson 24 October 2017 (Weather Underground) – It’s not every October 23 or 24 that millions of Americans are swathed in temperatures above 100°F. This week has done just that, bringing some of the toastiest weather ever observed in the United States during late October, and more pre-Halloween heat is on the way. […]
By Carmela Rodriguez 2 October 2017 (AllTheRooms) – On 20 September 2017, Hurricane Maria, a powerful Category 4, hit the island of Puerto Rico causing catastrophic effects. It’s a humanitarian crisis that is very close to home — here at AllTheRooms, our CEO Joseph DiTomaso is half Puerto Rican.Over one week on from the hurricane, […]
By Lisa Friedman 22 October 2017 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency scientists who were scheduled to discuss climate change at a conference on Monday in Rhode Island, according to the agency and several people involved. John Konkus, an E.P.A. spokesman and a […]
By Claire Galofaro 16 October 2017 PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Associated Press) – The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth of rain on his town, drowning this church where he […]
By Olga Gertcyk 16 October 2017 (The Siberian Times) – This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south “because they couldn’t go north” and got confused.This bear hit the headlines a few weeks ago after being spotted so far from the Arctic coastline – but its extraordinary achievement in finding […]
Dr. Jeff Masters 22 October 2017 (Wunderground) – Typhoon Lan made landfall near Omaezaki City, Japan, about 120 miles southwest of Tokyoa, near 3 am JST Monday. At landfall, Lan was a Category 2 storm with sustained 1-minute winds of 105 mph. Lan drenched Japan’s main island of Honshu with dangerous torrential rains on Sunday […]
