What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Cop30, withdraw the US from the Paris agreement and illegally terminate a slew of investments in renewable energy will not change the reality of climate breakdown for Americans. In what has become an annual reporting tradition, IContinue reading “A killer heat”
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Abnormally warm temperatures, extreme weather events and Cop16
27/02/2025 Abandoned citizens and conspiracy theories – what I saw in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina Nina Lakhani Last August, abnormally warm temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico fuelled Hurricane Helene, before it made landfall and unleashed catastrophic winds and rainfall across the south-eastern United States. The hurricane was the third deadliest in American history, after KatrinaContinue reading “Abnormally warm temperatures, extreme weather events and Cop16”
Florida using unpaid prison labour to clear debris after Hurricane Helene
On Thursday night September 26, Hurricane Helene crashed into Florida’s coast as a Category 4 hurricane. The giant storm with 140-mile-per-hour winds made landfall close to where Hurricane Debby hit in August, and where Hurricane Idalia struck just over a year ago. It quickly made its way inland, knocking out power for millions. Even before that, itContinue reading “Florida using unpaid prison labour to clear debris after Hurricane Helene”
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