August 2023 – Climate Desk

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Guardian

First hurricanes, now wildfire: Louisiana parish takes on a new climate disaster

The Tiger Island fire took residents by surprise, but they collected bulldozers and got to work

Oliver Laughland · August 31, 2023
Inside Climate News

Compost may just save this city

Marvin Hayes founded Baltimore Compost Collective to ditch trash incineration and build a healthier future.

Aman Azhar · August 29, 2023
Grist

The true cost of climate pollution? 44% of corporate profits.

Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for fossil fuels.

Kate Yoder · August 29, 2023
Guardian

After America’s summer of extreme weather, ‘next year may well be worse’

A freakish season of record temperatures, wildfire smoke and the destruction of Lahaina could soon become normal, climate experts say

Oliver Milman · August 28, 2023
Guardian

Asylum seekers in Greece ‘facing two great injustices of our time’

Amnesty links wildfires and lack of legal migration routes to deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers

Ashifa Kassam · August 24, 2023
High Country News

Federal court derails proposed Utah oil railroad

Failures to assess risks to Colorado River and ‘numerous NEPA violations’ in project’s impact analysis highlighted.

Samuel Shaw · August 24, 2023
Guardian

What role did the climate crisis play in Storm Hilary?

Such storms landing on California are extremely rare – but experts say they could become more common as the ocean heats up.

Maanvi Singh · August 23, 2023
Grist

Why it’s more expensive for Black towns to borrow money

"This is how your sewage gets funded, this is how your water gets funded, this is how public schools and public services are funded."

Jake Bittle and Siri Chilukuri · August 22, 2023
Mother Jones

Florida approved a PragerU climate cartoon for schools. We asked a scientist to fact-check It.

“I find something like this…to be really dangerous.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · August 18, 2023
Guardian

A renewable energy battery plant will rise in US where a steel mill once stood

Communities hope good new jobs will come from Biden’s historic climate investment in cities like Weirton, West Virginia

Dharna Noor · August 18, 2023
Mother Jones

16 Young people in Montana just won a historic climate lawsuit

“This is the strongest decision on climate change ever issued by any court,” expert says.

Henry Carnell · August 18, 2023
Canada's National Observer

Fortis, Enbridge fudge reports, use inflated numbers to hang onto market

They used the erroneous numbers to score a pipeline expansion.

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson · August 18, 2023