Summertime and the Living’s Uneasy
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the “best of times, worst of times” tradition, an analysis of what’s to come in 2020.
Hell and High Water in Australia
Reading Time: 3 minutes Amazing videos show that what’s been happening in Australia has not stayed in Australia.
‘We Sleep in Our Gas Masks’: Eyewitness to Australia’s Firestorm
Reading Time: 4 minutes A despairing resident, living in the path of the Australian “fire apocalypse,” describes the horror of the great climate change disaster.
The Wildfire Death Toll Nobody Talks About
Reading Time: 5 minutes WhoWhatWhy uncovers a mental health crisis among wildland firefighters.
The Wildfire Death Toll Nobody Talks About
Reading Time: 5 minutes WhoWhatWhy uncovers a mental health crisis among wildland firefighters.
California Is Burning — Here’s Why
Reading Time: 22 minutes 30 percent of California is forested. There are over 129 million dead trees, residential buildings increasingly closer to wildland, and conflicts about who’s responsible for managing it all. What could go wrong?
Second Hand Smoke Causing a Western Smog Age
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seattle has become dangerous this week — along with a lot of the western United States — as smoke particles block out the sun and block up lungs.