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...
After seeing the cherry red stain on the slip of pH paper I held between my tingling fingers, no one else in my group of scientists and adventurers volunteered to touch the water at our feet. I was straddling a small trickle bubbling out of the tundra and...
