In 2018, the deadliest wildfire in California history devastated the small town of Paradise. Five years later, residents were in good spirits, though a total recovery will take time. How is the community honoring the people and place they lost? And how are they preparing for the next blaze?
"It’s fair to ask whether we should rebuild in disaster-prone areas; but aren’t we all vulnerable now?"
In 2017, two years after the Valley Fire hit Lake County, CA, residents were still struggling to rebuild. As climate-related disasters magnify, what is our collective responsibility to survivors?
Exposure and vulnerability vary. Geography, demographics, and governance have big influences over how communities experience disasters. Assuming all hazards are equal denies the fact our communities don’t treat or expect the same of all people.
As the risks of a changing climate worsen, some Americans will opt to leave their homes; others will be forced to flee. Where will they go?
Two recent books by climate reporters tell an unsettling story of displacement and retreat already underway. What will it take to create true climate havens?
Two entities fuse to signify Californian landscape grandeur: the Pacific and the trees. But in our changing climate, infernos visited on forests by wildfires are destroying these ancient groves.
"Get out and see California’s trees for yourself," J. Matt writes. "It's a way of touching the sublime."
Humans intervene in landscapes at all scales, speeding things up, slowing them down and generating cascading effects far beyond our control.
In a sense we've refashioned time itself, altering environmental rhythms & cycles to meet infrastructural needs. We try to trick time, but the trick is on us.
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In 2017, two years after the Valley Fire hit Lake County, CA, residents were still struggling to rebuild. As climate-related disasters magnify, what is our collective responsibility to survivors?
Two recent books by climate reporters tell an unsettling story of displacement and retreat already underway. What will it take to create true climate havens?
"Get out and see California’s trees for yourself," J. Matt writes. "It's a way of touching the sublime."
In a sense we've refashioned time itself, altering environmental rhythms & cycles to meet infrastructural needs. We try to trick time, but the trick is on us.