Climate & Environment

Around the region, people are filling in the gap to meet the overwhelming need of the moment.  

A Maryland home was accidentally burned to the ground by an owner trying to get rid of a snake infestation, officials said.

Former President Barack Obama looked beyond his audience of delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland Monday and focused his attention on the young activists watching online, pleading with the generation to adopt a more conciliatory approach to their fight.

President Biden attending the COP25 United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow is drawing attention to the myriad ways global warming directly affects Black people.

Unfounded remarks about the health status of Haitians, made by former president Donald Trump while speaking to Sean Hannity about Joe Biden's "open borders agenda," proved to be nothing short of vitriol.

The environmental disparities in Grand Rapids, Michigan are prime examples of how prejudice is physically harming Black people and other POCs, with the city recently declaring racism a public health crisis in the area.

From head of households left unemployed with no way of putting food on the table to students in the free lunch program lacking daily meals due to the new remote learning model, the U.S. government officially reported that Latino and Black families facing food insecurity rose substantially in 2020.

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Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters and utility crews mobilized Monday after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and made a shambles of the electrical grid in New Orleans and beyond in the sweltering, late-summer heat.

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The search for those missing in flooding that killed more than 20 people over the weekend pressed on Tuesday in rural Tennessee, with crews scouring the banks of a creek for any bodies that washed away.

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A wildfire raging in Northern California exploded in size overnight, becoming the third-largest wildfire in state history amid high temperatures and strong winds. Better weather conditions were expected to aid the firefight on Friday.

A sandstorm caused a huge 22-vehicle pileup on a Utah highway that left eight people dead, including children, authorities said.

Democrats have proposed a new bill that will hopefully be a start to erasing the hate, at least when it comes to racially-insensitive names of over 1,000 forests, streams, lakes, mountain peaks and other landmarks across the country.