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In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.

This is only the beginning. This is what three decades of inaction and insufficient action have produced. Ludicrous would be allowing the US, under the grasp of a handful of villainous, ecocide billionaires and ideologues, to drag us into the abyss

This summer’s fires are more than just a wake-up call. They are a five-alarm emergency alert. The least we can demand of our political leaders is that they stop dismantling the only tools we have to fight the incineration of our world.

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

It may sound like all is lost. On the contrary: Solutions abound, and there are many reasons for hope.

A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for a new climate reality. A concrete jungle such as Paris, or any French city center, is a built environment conceived for the far more temperate climate of a preindustrial world

Climate indifference and the denialism currently in power in Washington are showing up in more diluted forms in Europe. We have seen it during these days of record-breaking temperatures.

Carbon Captured How the fossil fuel industry influenced climate research. An investigative series by ProPublica and Drilled

Thinking and rethinking