California Wildfires Map Reveals Ten Most Destructive Wildfires
New research suggests the fire season in the Golden State is lengthening, with wildfires starting earlier each year. Unfortunately, they’re also becoming more disastrous.| Maps.com
New research suggests the fire season in the Golden State is lengthening, with wildfires starting earlier each year. Unfortunately, they’re also becoming more disastrous.| Maps.com
Environmental law have become vibrant parts of the law and policy ecosystem. At a time when despondency seems all too common, the work of these law school centers offers beacons of hope for the future of environmental protection. Some of that work is playing defense — pushing back against deregulatory efforts — while other work plays offense by identifying innovative directions for environmental policy. A comprehensive survey isn’t practical, but I’ll provide examples from several...| Legal Planet
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host The future of the Manawanui wreckage and potential compensation payments remain a major talking point in Samoa. The Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground on a reef off the south coast of Upolu in October last year and sank. New| Asia Pacific Report
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Amnesty International is asking the New Zealand government to create a new humanitarian visa for Pacific people impacted by climate change. Kiribati community leader Charles Kiata said life on Kiribati was becoming extremely hard as sea levels rose and the country was hit by more severe storms, higher temperatures| Asia Pacific Report
Iffat Idris, GSDRC, University of Birmingham Pakistan has been in the international news twice so far this year. First, in spring 2025, for renewed conflict with India following a terrorist attack in Indian Administered Kashmir, IAK. Second, from late June to September, for devastating floods across the country. While, on initial reading, these events appear| GSDRC
“Storms are going to get worse, and it’s not going to be livable,” said a tribal leader from the village of Akiak.| Articles – Truthout
An obscure drafting wrinkle in current state law is impeding local governments from springing into action after disasters.| Legal Planet
Atlas Guo is a cartographer and Ph.D. student. We met with him to learn more about mapping natural disasters and what goes into making a well-designed map.| Maps.com
This is a very serious matter and suggests at a catastrophic flood event to unfold in national capital whenever HKB records more than 5 or 6 lakh cusecs the peak flood volume or repeats 1978 or 201…| SANDRP
My husband and I were relaxing on our deck a few days ago when we noticed several planes circling to the east of us. All three were mostly white with red markings and lettering. When one of the planes flew close enough to our house, we could clearly read the words CAL FIRE on the … Continue reading "What would you Grab if you had to Go?"| Retirementally Challenged
Landsat-based National Land Cover Database (NLCD) helps predict hurricane wind risk to homes and other structures.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
Friday, August 29, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a weather event that rapidly became a significant social and political catastrophe kill…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima. About 40% of the estimated 350,000 inhabitants died before the year ended. This is the story of a 19-year-old nurse who miraculously survived.| OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN
Whenever a train approached Bridgeport’s “Jenkins Curve,” the sharpest curve of the New Haven Railroad system, safety regulations required the engineer to slow down to 30 m…| Today in Connecticut History
Last Monday, 7/14/2025, NPR ran an interview with a woman who lived through the flood on Texas’s Guadalupe River, a terrible story and I paraphrase:| The Last Word On Nothing
Massive landslide at Bhalukhop (Kalimpong district) on 29Jul2021, following 232mm rainfall in 13hrs. Nature has slowly healed this area over a 4 year period without any engineering mitigation measures being applied.| Visions of Hell
Early in the morning of June 28th, 1983, at around 1:30 am, a 100-foot span of Interstate 95 in Greenwich collapsed into the Mianus River. It was one of the most infamous American bridge dis…| Today in Connecticut History
This shows once again, that NHAI or the Ministry of Road Transport has no confidence inspiring system to firstly ensure that projects have adequate drainage component so that not only the road sust…| SANDRP
The available media reports clearly show that several extreme weather events fuelled by WDs have struck the Northwest and Northeast Himalayan states in pre-monsoon months in 2025, killing at least …| SANDRP
Western Canadian beef producers discuss how they're dealing with several years of drought.| Canadian Cattlemen
In our commercialized world, there are so many products begging you to buy them – especially around Christmas time. It can be difficult to find gifts for people who simply don’t seem to need anything! No matter how many fun games, electronics, vacations, or furniture someone might have, none of that will benefit them in […] The post Ultimate List of 20+ Emergency Preparedness Christmas Gifts appeared first on PreparednessMama.| PreparednessMama
In Taiwan, earthquakes are linked to shallow stores of magma. New research explores this connection by linking land surface temperature with earthquakes.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation (HB 1645) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008. The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: … Continue reading "Florida Governor DeSantis’ Head-In-The-Sand Climate Change Policies"| Legal Planet
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order that likely ends one of the most closely-watched climate change lawsuits in recent American legal history: Juliana v. United States. The background of this litigation–which was filed in federal district court in Oregon in 2015–has been analyzed at length in … Continue reading "Ninth Circuit Short-Circuits Juliana v. U.S. Climate Change Lawsuit"| Legal Planet
LGBTQ people are at greater risk of climate change harms compared to straight couples. Right-wing media thinks it's a punchline.| Legal Planet
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project is a groundbreaking initiative that combines data from Landsats 8 & 9 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A & 2B satellites.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
Many of you may have heard about the tornado that tore through Springfield, MA, and surrounding towns on June 1, 2011. One man, Michael Roescher, was home with his step-daughter and their seven cats when the tornado leveled their house. … Continue reading →| Lost Cats Found
There was recently a story in the news about a woman near Boston whose apartment burned while she wasn’t home and whose dog was assumed dead. However, nearly one month later, her dog was fou…| Lost Cats Found
In May 1937, the German-manufactured airship LZ-129 Hindenburg, at the time the largest airship by length and volume, caught fire … More| Dark Tales
A burst fermenting vat filled with beer resulted in a flood that caused eight deaths in 19th century London| Dark Tales
Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.| Ensia
