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, by LI Promise
When the Eaton Fire first began its retreat from Altadena, I was in one of many self-organized mutual aid teams scattered across the area, cleaning up debris. Around this time, I connected with some Black community members who had just lost their homes. They had returned from evacuation almost (…)
, par KEELEY Jon
Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread wildfires into several neighborhoods in early January 2025, creating a terrifying scene.
Thousands of homes and other structures, including several schools, had burned by (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
A catastrophic fire is sweeping through Los Angeles, destroying entire neighborhoods and global warming with its extreme weather, in this case extremely high wind velocity, is the principal cause. Since they began last Wednesday and as I write on January 12, the fire has swept over 37,000 acres, (…)
, by BREWSTER Freddy, DEAN STOCKTON Lucy
Fossil fuel companies are profiting off a state tax break depriving California of up to $146 million of annual tax revenue that could be used to combat climate-change-fueled wildfires — like the inferno currently tearing through Los Angeles.
Fossil fuel companies are profiting off an obscure (…)
, by PENG Zhong-Ren
Dozens of homes near Daytona Beach collapsed or were left unstable when Hurricane Nicole struck. Here’s what can be done to reduce that kind of risk.
Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left (…)
, by HUMMEL Thomas
Thomas Hummel discusses why the deaths caused by more than thirty tornadoes across the midwest were anything but natural, but the result of capitalism’s drive for growth and profit, no matter the consequences to workers’ lives or the planet.
Six workers at an Amazon warehouse near St. Louis in (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
The world has seen the images of the fires raging along the Pacific Coast of the United States, from the borders of Canada to Mexico.
As of September 15, there are about 100 large fires, and many smaller ones, raging in the states of Washington, Oregon and California. A blanket of unhealthy (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Record wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area rapidly erupted in less than two weeks, in the midst of a scorching heat wave.
As of August 24, nearly 120,000 have fled their homes as 1.2 million acres have burned, greater than the state of Rhode Island. Two of the wildfires rank as the second (…)
, par SHEPPARD Barry
The intense wildfires that have gripped California once again in late summer and autumn seem to have abated.
The mainstream media have covered these fires, which were concentrated in the area north of San Francisco and the upscale west side of Los Angeles, in graphic detail. They have covered (…)
, by ARRIA Michael
Hurricane Michael, the brutal storm that hit the Southeast US in October may have faded from the headlines, but its victims are still dealing with the impact. Eight weeks after the hurricane, hundreds of Florida residents are still living in tents because their homes were destroyed.
“We are (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
While Trump denies that climate change is a reality, the United States is becoming one of the main victims of extreme climate events.
Climate change catastrophe is, as this article is written, facing hundreds of thousands on the eastern seaboard of the United States and on the Philippines (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
The massive devastation, death and misery hurricane Harvey wreaked upon the Gulf Coast and inland on Texas and Louisiana has been seen throughout the world. The coverage has centered on Houston, the fourth largest city in the U.S., which saw the greatest amount of rain to fall in a few days in (…)
, by COOK James, UZMAN Seth
Politicians cannot feign surprise at the disaster they literally paved the way for, explains Seth Uzman.
STORMS ARE natural, but what happens in response to them is not. Flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which smashed into the Gulf Coast on August 25, has left at least nine people (…)
, by KLEIN Naomi
Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.
Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of (…)
, by ADAMS Thomas Jessen
The language of social justice has been used to sell intensified neoliberalism in post-Katrina New Orleans.
It’s one of those ironies that New Orleanians tend to especially appreciate. Today, on the tenth anniversary of the failure of the federally maintained levees, the keynote speaker at (…)
, by KAUFMAN Alexander C.
Harvey’s floodwaters run thick with petrochemicals in some communities, the result of unbridled industry, Wild West regulations and environmental racism.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti woke just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday to find water seeping into the bathroom. She ran to the sunroom that faces her (…)
, by JUDD David
The deadly fire at an Oakland artist collective has exposed the warped priorities of a city where fewer and people can afford to live, explains David Judd.
AT LEAST 36 people were killed by a fire that raged through a warehouse hosting a concert in Oakland’s Fruitvale district last Friday (…)
, by COLLIER Kiah, COLLIER Reveal, SATIJA Neena
HOUSTON — For the third time in eight years, water gushed into Virginia Hammond’s northwest Houston.
It was 2 a.m. on April 18. Over the next several hours, her two granddaughters — ages 12 and 15 — perched on tables, scared to put their feet in the dark gray floodwater rising below them. It (…)
, by JOHNSON Ragina
As a methane gas leak continues unabated in Los Angeles, Ragina Johnson asks what it will take to protect communities and the environment from corporate polluters.
YOU’D THINK the ecological and social crisis in California couldn’t get any worse.
The state is suffering the effects of a (…)
, by SHEVCHENKO Inna
It took nearly a week for the news about the New Year’s Eve mass sexual assaults on women in Cologne to appear in press and social networks. It took even longer for many to react, including myself. Despite the fact that the attacks of more than 100 women by a crowd of an estimated 1000 men (…)
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