• Drought, flooding, drought again: Is ‘weather whiplash’ our new normal?

    9/18/24 | National Geographic

    When Kamie Loeser took over as the director of water and resource conservation in Butte County, in Northern California, she was immediately tasked with navigating a... Read More

  • Doggie Diner head in Golden Gate Park is set ablaze

    7/8/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

    They were a sight to behold on JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park — three giant Doggie Diner heads, at once familiar to longtime San Franciscans… Read More

  • US Tools to Fight Extreme Heat Debated as FEMA Pressured to Act

    6/21/24 | Bloomberg Law

    The push this week by a coalition of health, environmental, and labor groups for FEMA to use a key federal law to combat extreme heat and wildfire smoke is reigniting a… Read More

  • Valley fever moves north in state

    8/14/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

    The effects of climate change in California, from harsher heat waves to more volatile rainstorms, are well established. Lesser known is what those crises can help fuel: the northern migration of… Read More

  • EPA Staff Move to Safeguard Work Amid Worries of Trump’s Return

    8/9/24 | Bloomberg Law

    Environmentalists and career staff at the EPA are taking steps to shield the agency’s work from political influence, fearing that progress they’ve made toward regulating pollution and elevating... Read More

  • Electrifying Everything Will Require a Much Larger Workforce

    9/10/24 | Sierra Magazine

    Jed Pulsifer never expected to be on the front lines of the energy transition. In 2018, ready to switch careers after nearly a decade in retail, he enrolled in trade school and got his... Read More

  • Milestones and miles to go: Inside the ongoing coal ash cleanup work in North Carolina

    8/26/22 | The Charlotte Observer

    At a sharp bend in the Catawba River, across from Cowan’s Ford Wildlife Refuge and a few… Read More

  • Public Health Emergency Acts Streamline Texas Disaster Response

    7/23/24 | Bloomberg Law

    The Public Health Emergency declared for Texas by US health authorities this month will cut through bureaucratic hurdles to lifesaving care, but disaster prevention efforts… Read More

  • US Supreme Court climate ruling has limited impact in NC

    7/10/22 | The Charlotte Observer

    The response to last week’s major Supreme Court ruling limiting the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was swift and intense. Environmentalists… Read More

  • Another reason an on-campus ANC race tied 1-1? Incorrect ballots

    4/27/23 | The Eagle

    Diego Carney was excited to vote in the 2022 midterm elections. It wasn’t just his first time voting — it was his first time voting for himself… Read More

  • Gas stoves emit carcinogen, new Stanford study shows

    6/21/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

    Gas stoves, which are used in a majority of California households, can emit a chemical linked to cancer at levels higher than those caused by secondhand… Read More

  • Lion Dance Festival roars in Chinatown

    7/23/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

    They leaped, twirled and twisted. They crouched down, then stretched toward the sky. They blinked their eyes and shook their large, multicolored heads. The lion dancers of San Francisco’s… Read More

  • Magnolia Mead is taking the fight for climate justice to the top

    11/8/21 | The Eagle

    Magnolia Mead was walking briskly. It was a chilly afternoon in late October, and Mead, an American University freshman, was keeping pace with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) as… Read More

  • The people who find, investigate and sue polluters on the Potomac

    12/9/22 | The Eagle

    On a warm Wednesday in late October, Dean Naujoks guided the smaller of his two boats out of the Washington Sailing Marina and onto the river he has… Read More

  • Warming winters are making cherry blossoms bloom earlier, potentially putting their flowers at risk

    3/23/23 | The DC Line

    When Jeff Reinbold, the National Park Service’s superintendent of the National Mall… Read More

  • COVID advances public health courses

    7/28/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

    Months into the COVID-19 pandemic and amid the national reckoning over the murder of George Floyd, Andrea Jacobo underwent a transformation… Read More

  • Mary Cheh ends reelection bid as DC Council hopefuls jockey for position

    2/22/22 | The Eagle

    It came first as a shock, then as a moment of opportunity: Mary Cheh, the veteran D.C. Councilmember representing Ward 3, was ending her bid… Read More

  • New theater partnership explores race, class and unity

    7/31/22 | The Charlotte Observer

    About four years ago, Karli Henderson had the idea to put a professional theater company on Davidson College’s campus. Henderson, a theater producer… Read More

  • AU to move to Tenleytown-centered ANC and get second commissioner in Ward 3 redistricting

    4/20/22 | The Eagle

    American University will gain a second Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and move… Read More

  • Are DC’s incentives getting more kids vaccinated? Experts aren’t sure.

    10/27/21 | The Eagle

    In early August, about a month before D.C. public schools reopened for in-person classes, city officials unveiled a wave of prizes to encourage… Read More

  • Times Is of the Essence for Dorian Clair

    March 2021 | The Noe Valley Voice

    For more than half a century, Dorian Clair has been fixing clocks. It’s somewhat of an obsession, he says, a passion-turned-profession that began when he was 8 and has made him one… Read More