This hurricane season also sparked a wide range of conspiracy theories regarding the possibility that the U.S. government or some other government could be manipulating the weather to strengthen hurricanes.
Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, the famous professional boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white jury in 1967 but later exonerated, has died in Toronto at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by family friends close to the man whose journey of racially-charged imprisonment helped fuel the prisoner rights movement while becoming […]
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the famous professional boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white jury in 1967 but later exonerated, has died in Toronto at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by family friends close to the man whose journey of racially-charged imprisonment helped fuel the prisoner rights movement while becoming the
FEMA has flood-risk maps of questionable accuracy for many U.S. counties and lacks maps altogether for some.
In recent years, Americans have witnessed the destructive power of floods again and again, from the damage inflicted on coastal New York and New Jersey by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to the devastation wrought by overflowing rivers in Colorado just a few months ago. Yet as ProPublica has reported, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has
For now, let us put to one side who is right and who is wrong and even ignore the question of what actually happened.
What’s in a name? Our language is flexible, adaptable, a source of delight for many – but it is also the case that the subtlest choice of words can imply ideas in ways we may not notice. Recent press reports about the Israeli intervention into the Syrian conflict provide many examples. For now, let us put to one side who is right and who is
The people along this vulnerable stretch of eastern Grenada have been watching the sea eat away at their shoreline in recent decades.
The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern
After the opening of the $250 million George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas last month, Americans will have access to new exhibits extolling the Iraq War, an invasion opposed by the majority of U.N. members states and one that experts believe took the lives of at least 123,000 Iraqi civilians and […]
This comes a day after the nonprofit Climate Central released a much-publicized report detailing the extent of sewage pollution caused by Sandy.
A day after the nonprofit Climate Central released a much-publicized report detailing the extent of sewage pollution caused by superstorm Sandy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
