Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites
Blazes at the imperiled hazardous waste sites could release toxins ranging from acid mine drainage to radioactive smoke.
By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer
Wildfires
A Warming Planet Makes Northeastern Forests More Susceptible to Western-Style Wildfires
By Ilana Cohen
Vintners and Farmers Are Breathing Easier After the Demise of Proposition 15, a ‘Headache’ at Best
By Evelyn Nieves
Clouds of Concern Linger as Wildfires Drag into Flu Season and Covid Numbers Swell
By Judy Fahys
The Biggest Threat to Growing Marijuana in California Used to Be the Law. Now, it’s Climate Change
By Evelyn Nieves
Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change
By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER
The Society of Professional Journalists Recognizes “American Climate” for Distinguished Reporting
By Vernon Loeb
Senate 2020: In Colorado, Where Climate Matters, Hickenlooper is Favored to Unseat Gardner
By Judy Fahys
Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe
By Ilana Cohen
A Most ‘Sustainable’ Vineyard in a ‘Completely Unsustainable’ Year
By Evelyn Nieves
Text: Joe Biden on Climate Change, ‘a Global Crisis That Requires American Leadership’
Biden Puts Climate Change at Center of Presidential Campaign, Calling Trump a ‘Climate Arsonist’
By Marianne Lavelle
Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?
By Michael Kodas
As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’
By Deborah Petersen
A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
By Michael Kodas
10 Days of Climate Extremes: From Record Heat to Wildfires to the One-Two Punch of Hurricane Laura
By Bob Berwyn
The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas
Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980
By Bob Berwyn
