Photos by Ming T. Poon Jenny Watts says that when people learn that she works in the Arctic, they tell her they picture her on an all-white sheet of ice, a bleak frozen mass. She tells them that’s not true at all. It’s actually one of the most complex, dynamic,...
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 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...
