Natural disasters

September 25, 2020

Though the presidential contenders disagree on many issues, perhaps none is as stark as their fundamental divergence on the issue of global warming and how to reverse ecological doom.

Environment

Brazil’s wetlands ravaged by out-of-control wildfires

The World

September 22, 2020

Over 7 million acres of the Pantanal has gone up in smoke — roughly 50% more than all of the land that has burned so far along the entire US West Coast.

Natural disasters

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense it ran out of storm names just before two more systems formed

The Conversation

September 19, 2020

This has only happened twice since naming conventions began in 1950, and there's also an unusual twist with the location of where many storms are forming this year.

Top of The World

Kremlin denies Navalny was poisoned; Pompeo announces sanctions on ICC officials; Typhoon Maysak hits Korean peninsula

The World

September 03, 2020

Russia has rejected the German government’s statement that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Moscow, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced aggressive sanctions against top International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, and torrential rain and heavy winds hit much of the Korean peninsula.

The Big Fix

California and Australia look to Indigenous land management for fire help

The World

September 01, 2020

As fires rage across the state of California, many are wondering how management could improve to reduce the risk in the future. Traditional fire management is being increasingly embraced in Australia, which could help inspire California.

Natural disasters

Typhoon Bavi strikes North Korea amid pandemic lockdown

The World

August 27, 2020

Pyongyang has closed its borders, preventing aid groups from entering the country. Now, the regime’s ability to effectively respond to the disaster could be curtailed due to the absence of such organizations.

What Aboriginal Australians can teach us about managing wildfires

The Conversation

August 27, 2020

Since last summer’s bushfire crisis in Australia, there’s been a quantum shift in public awareness of Aboriginal fire management. It’s now more widely understood that Indigenous people used landscape burning to sustain biodiversity and suppress large bushfires.

Top of The World

Hurricane Laura slams Gulf Coast; Kenosha tension boils over; Beijing tests 'aircraft-carrier killer'

August 27, 2020

Hurricane Laura made landfall just after midnight in southern Louisiana, the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., has been identified as Rusten Sheskey, and the Chinese government test-fired an “aircraft-carrier killer” missile into the South China Sea.

Natural disasters

Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater

Associated Press

August 27, 2020

Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast with ferocious wind and torrential rain and unleashed a wall of seawater that could push 40 miles inland as the Category 4 storm roared ashore Thursday in Louisiana near the Texas border.

Environment

Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana as Laura buffets Cuba

Associated Press

August 24, 2020

After a day as a hurricane, Tropical Storm Marco brought a surge of high water to the Louisiana coast on Monday, setting the stage for Tropical Storm Laura to enter the Gulf of Mexico and move toward the same stretch of US coast later in the week, most likely as a hurricane.

Natural disasters

Explainer: Biden clashes with Trump in tale of two climate narratives

Brazil’s wetlands ravaged by out-of-control wildfires

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense it ran out of storm names just before two more systems formed

Kremlin denies Navalny was poisoned; Pompeo announces sanctions on ICC officials; Typhoon Maysak hits Korean peninsula

California and Australia look to Indigenous land management for fire help

Typhoon Bavi strikes North Korea amid pandemic lockdown

What Aboriginal Australians can teach us about managing wildfires

Hurricane Laura slams Gulf Coast; Kenosha tension boils over; Beijing tests 'aircraft-carrier killer'

Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater

Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana as Laura buffets Cuba

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