This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Michael Gillogly, manager of the Pepperwood Preserve, understands the wildfire risk that power lines pose firsthand. The 3,200-acre nature reserve in Sonoma County, California, burned in 2017 when a privately owned electrical system sparked a fire. It burned again in 2019 during a conflagration started by power lines operated by utility […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform a receptive new audience about the “catastrophic” scale of the crisis. Heather O’Leary, professor of anthropology at St. Petersburg’s University of […]| Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, […]| Mother Jones
“Often, the people who have been on the land the longest are the first to get displaced,”| Mother Jones
With climate crisis looming, energy-gobbling cryptocurrency operations are drawing ire.| Mother Jones
“At such a critical stage, access to affordable, reliable electricity is paramount."| Mother Jones
New revelation makes "a mockery of the oil industry’s denial of basic climate science decades later.”| Mother Jones
Not pictured: toxic fumes.| Mother Jones