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Each week, award-winning climate journalist Miranda Green offers a look beneath the climate headlines—into how decisions are being made, why they matter, and what they reveal about this moment. Subscribe to The Understory to never miss an edition. As world leaders gather in Belem, Brazil, for the 30th Conference of the Parties to discuss our collective climate future, […]
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Sweltering summers are making an AC a lifesaving device. But despite the heatwaves, millions of Americans simply can’t afford it. The heat in swampy New Orleans, Louisiana is so pervasive that locals say the weather is a mix of mostly summer with other seasons scattered in. Jeffrey Elder, medical director for emergency management at University […]
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In the wake of January’s deadly wildfires, Los Angeles County leaders are weighing a disaster registry intended to help disabled and senior residents get connected to emergency responders to bring them to safety during disasters. County supervisors approved a feasibility study this spring for such a voluntary database. Supporters applauded the effort to give more notice and […]
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People snatched off the streets. Residents in hiding. This is the past week in Los Angeles. Hermanita Conchita was tending to her stand on Monday afternoon, selling pupusas and fruit outside her home in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, when she saw two suspicious cars pull up. “I said, ‘That’s immigration!’ and everyone […]
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Esther Bejarano’s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn’t know what had triggered his symptoms — neither she nor her husband had asthma — but she suspected it was the pesticides sprayed on the agricultural fields near her family’s home. Pesticides are a known contributor to asthma and are commonly […]
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Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines. Last fall residents of Mandan, North Dakota woke up to an unfamiliar newspaper at their doorsteps. The […]
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Friday termination notices, abrupt reassignments and the erasure of key environmental websites put the future of policing polluters in doubt. When Donald Trump was reelected president, civil servants working at the agencies that oversee federal environmental regulations and prosecute corporate polluters anticipated that many things would soon be reversed, just like the last time. When […]
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The former Republican and mayoral candidate is riling up California’s moderates amid the destruction, but will it work? As houses smoldered and the breadth of destruction from fires that raged through Los Angeles was just beginning to become clear, real estate developer Rick Caruso called into a local Fox station to cast the first stone. […]
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