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US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor | FAIR

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Neil deMause

As a historic set of wildfires sweeps across California, sparked by lightning and stoked by record heat and drought resulting from climate change (Mercury News, 8/19/20; Scientific American, 4/3/20), many news outlets have drawn readers’ attention to an additional problem … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit, Prisons

Media on Climate Crisis: Don’t Organize, Mourn | FAIR

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Neil deMause

The year 2019 was, by all accounts, the year of climate awareness. To an unprecedented degree, in the three decades since scientists first warned of the imminent dangers of rising carbon emissions and the resulting global warming, we were transfixed … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

Australia Wildfire Coverage Is Long on Koalas, Short on Causes | FAIR

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Neil deMause

If you’ve only been following the bushfires ravaging Australia through the headlines popping up on your social media feeds — which, let’s face it, is more popular than reading newspapers these days — it’s probably been in a series of … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Media Crit

Can New York Plug All Its Subway Holes Before the Next Storm? | Earther

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Neil deMause

New York City commuters have gotten used to bizarre delays. Falling tree limbs and trains that were invisible to controllers until a computer was rebooted are among the issues that have slowed down commutes. But visitors to Williamsburg’s Broadway station … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Subways

Seaport Section Remains Big Question Mark in NYC’s Flood Control Plans | City Limits

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Neil deMause

Stand along the East River waterfront in the Financial District, and it quickly becomes how big a task City Hall has set for itself in protecting lower Manhattan from sea level rise. Manhattan’s southern tip is ringed by low-lying land … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change

As the Sea Rises, Will Resiliency—Rather Than Retreat—Be Enough to Save Waterfront NYC? | City Limits

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Neil deMause

The water first rose up out of the streets in Coney Island, recalls Ida Sanoff, sometime last summer. “I was standing last summer on the corner of Mermaid Avenue and I think West 19th Street, and it hadn’t rained in … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change

Ask A Climate Scientist: What’s The Point Of Saving For Retirement If The Ice Caps Are Melting? | Gothamist

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Neil deMause

As you may have noticed, the news from the future is not good, not good at all. A report released earlier this month from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global scientific panel set up by the United Nations … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change

New York Will Drown Long Before It Freezes | Village Voice

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Neil deMause

Of all the ways in which our broken planet is preparing to kill us — tropical diseases gone wild, swarms of water refugees, frozen methane rising from the inky depths to smother us in prehistoric microbe farts — the general … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change

The MTA’s Climate Change Dilemma: How Do You Plug A Million Holes? | Village Voice

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Neil deMause

On the corner of Franklin and Varick streets in Tribeca, kitty-corner from the Ghostbusters firehouse, sits a prototype of the main weapon in the MTA’s war against water.It looks like a normal subway entrance, except the railing at the back … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, New York City, Subways

Five NYC Parks to Visit Before They’re Under Water (Village Voice)

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

New York is a city that likes to forget it’s surrounded by water. Each spring, as the sidewalks thaw and we re-emerge, blinking, into the natural world, there are plenty of opportunities to rediscover the city’s ample waterfront: New York … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Parks

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