Friday, November 7, 2025

Tag: wild fires

NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake...

The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.

The fires this time

A climate view from California.

Climate change fuels hellfire in the City of Angels

Warm, dry climate change conditions have made housing in LA's "Wildland-Urban Interface" dangerous.

California tribe hopes to conquer climate woes — With fire

More and more land in California is going up in flames. The area in the state burned by wildfires has increased by...

550,000 acres on fire in Alaska in latest sign of the...

Alaska's fires show the footprints of climate change in multiple ways.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 26, 2018

Federal lawsuit against President Trump's business interests allowed to proceed, deadly wildfires rage around the world, Betsy Devos is hurting students again, and more.

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Trump fights court order to fully fund SNAP for 42 million Americans

A federal judge ordered the administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits for 42 million people as the Justice Department appealed, while analysis shows the partial-payment plan would cut average aid by 61 percent and leave millions with nothing.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.

The truth about kratom and its safety problems

"Depending on the amount of active ingredient in the product…taking kratom can be harmful," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people not to use kratom because of possible harm it can cause.

Only the ugliest American alone pulverizes domestic and overseas stability, the rarest of doomed...

As long as politics remains tawdry, brain-numbing entertainment, infected by hateful racist bugs, today’s already darkened age will grow darker before en-light-enment may return.

Trump is running for a third term. SCOTUS will let him. Democrats have to...

How far the Democrats ultimately go in providing justice and accountability depends entirely on how much the American people push them.