Photo courtesy of NOAA When I am skiing and the snow ‘whoomphs’, it tells me something vital about stability, and I change course if I’m exposed to avalanche terrain. The climate is now telling us something vital about a set of risks to our communities and our...
Photos by Caitlin Ochs Hurricane Helene is a tragedy. The storm dropped 42 trillion gallons of water on communities across the Southeast—enough to completely drain Lake Tahoe. With the water, came widespread flooding, power outages, and an estimated $160 billion...
Photo by POW Creative Alliance member Sara Robbins When President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, it was hailed as the most important climate law in US history. Since then, the IRA’s impact has only grown. Initially, the Congressional...
Photo by Donny O’Neill Neil Lareau says he hasn’t seen any precipitation in the Sierra Nevada, where he lives, since he went skiing on Cinco de Mayo. It’s July now, with a series of heatwaves billowing across the West and Dr. Neil Lareau, an atmospheric...
Photo by Adam Clark Jumping into climate conversations can feel a bit like having a go at a new sport. It’s scary, uncomfortable, and uncertain. But it’s also worth it. Sometime late in the summer of 2012, I sat in a packraft, teetering through rolling...
Photo by Seebany Datta-Barua Antarctica is the world’s largest ice sheet, spanning an area comparable to the entire United States reaching a staggering thickness of up to 3 miles at its center. Consequently, visitors to the South Pole often experience altitude...
