More – Miranda Green

Hospitals Confront Climate Change as Patients Sick From Floods and Fires Crowd ERs

October 1, 2021April 4, 2022Miranda Green

When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to treat heat-aggravated illness in homeless people, elderly patients with chronic ailments, and overdosing narcotics users. “The magnitude of the exposure, this was so far off the charts in terms of our historical […]

Climate change and drought threaten a way of life for Arizona farmers

September 16, 2021November 10, 2023Miranda Green

Nancy Caywood recalls the days when the white tufts on the cotton plants on her family’s 255-acre farm popped out against the stark blue desert sky, and their alfalfa fields were a sea of green yielding eight to 10 cuttings a year. “To walk out and smell the fresh hay, there’s nothing like it,” the […]

Miracle in the desert

May 11, 2021May 11, 2021Miranda Green

The hunt for lithium and environmental justice on the shores of a dying lake tanding on the banks of the lakeshore, Darlene Berber’s view of her former neighbourhood was both familiar and strangely altered. “That’s where the marina used to be,” she said, as she guided us round what remains of Vista Del Mar. “There […]

Natives Feel Double Pain of COVID and Fires

September 22, 2020November 10, 2023Miranda Green

Around the country, many tribes have full-time fire crews that traditionally aid one another and federal firefighters, sending out teams to help with blazes. But COVID-19 has pushed them to reconsider how much help they can give and receive. (CSKT Division of Fire)