By Scott Sistek 9 December 2017 SEATTLE (KOMO News) – Here we go again?The skies over Seattle were a bit of a hazy orange Saturday evening … reminiscent of the smoky days of this summer when it seemed no matter which way the wind was blowing, there was smoke from a wildfire either to our […]
By Sarah Gibbens 7 December 2017 (National Geographic) – When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived in the Baffin Islands in late summer, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed.Nicklen is no stranger to bears. From the time he was a child growing up […]
5 Dcember 2017 (LLNL) – Arctic sea ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next few decades could impact California’s rainfall and exacerbate future droughts, according to new research led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists.The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice cover observed over the satellite era is expected to continue throughout […]
By Sarah Parvini, Matt Hamilton, and Louis Sahagun 6 December 2017 (Los Angeles Times) – The fire that burned a path of destruction through Ventura County reached the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday night, with officials expecting that hundreds more homes had been lost in a blaze that continues to rage out of control. The fire […]
By Adam Voiland 5 December 2017 (NASA) – Thick smoke streamed from several fires in southern California when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image in the afternoon on 5 December 2017.The largest of the blazes—the fast-moving Thomas fire in Ventura County—had charred more than 65,000 acres (24,000 […]
By Alene Tchekmedyian, Jaclyn Cosgrove, Ruben Vives, and Sonali Kohli 5 December 2017 (Los Angeles Times) – A fast-moving, wind-fueled wildfire swept into the city of Ventura early Tuesday, burning 45,000 acres, destroying homes and forcing 27,000 people to evacuate.At least 150 structures — including at least one large apartment complex and the Vista […]
By Neil Collier, Ora Dekornfeld, and Ben Laffin 30 November 2017(The New York Times) – Hurricane Irma was ruthless to Barbuda. It damaged or destroyed pretty much all the buildings on the island. It left everyone vulnerable, their homes open to the sky. Walls collapsed. Windows shattered. And it opened a door for the government. […]
By Carmen Sesin 30 November 2017 MIAMI (NBC News) – The exodus of Puerto Ricans to Florida following Hurricane Maria has reached a whopping 200,000 in just over two months, obliterating initial conservative estimates that had put the number at 100,000. Maria Teresa Rosado, 37, and her husband Luis Flores, 33, arrived in Miami over […]
By Leyla Santiago, Khushbu Shah, and Rachel Clarke 20 November 2017 San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) – Whitefish Energy is stopping its work to restore Puerto Rico’s broken electricity grid because the company says it is owed more than $83 million by the island’s power authority. Whitefish CEO Andy Techmanski told CNN that repeated requests […]
By George Monbiot 22 November 2017(The Guardian) – Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the rich and the rich can live like the oligarchs. But already we are bursting through the physical limits of the planet that sustains us. […]
