Climate

“These Disasters Aren’t Natural Anymore”: A Dispatch from Puerto Rico After Maria

A conversation with Xiomara Caro Diaz of the Center for Popular Democracy about the devastation wrought by climate change and austerity.

Kate Aronoff

How Corporate Science and Alternative Facts Limit Our Reality

John Ikerd

After Irma, Can Private Utilities Be Trusted to Rebuild?

There’s an opportunity post-Irma to revolutionize Florida’s power supply, but Big Energy is not likely to rise to the occasion.

Kate Aronoff

In Rare Public Appearance, Smokey Bear Ignores Climate Change ... Just Waves

Rural America In These Times

Leftists to the Rescue: Where the State and Big NGOs Fail, Mutual Aid Networks Step In

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, solidarity-based, grassroots networks are helping Houston residents pick up the pieces.

Jared Ware

Not Covered: Why Our National Flood Insurance Program is (Also) Underwater

Robert W. Klein

How Bad Politics and Bad Planning Make Hurricanes Even Worse

To prepare for the impacts of climate change, other cities must learn the lessons of Hurricane Harvey.

Ashley Dawson