In early December 2016, the Paris region suffered from the most intense bout of small particle pollution in a decade. Anticyclonic weather (cold air under a cover of hotter air undisturbed by wind) trapped pollutants. These came for the most part from car traffic (including diesel-powered beasts), ammonia-emitting intensive agriculture, some industrial emissions and a spike in pollutants from residential heating (90% of which emanating from the relatively few wood-fired ovens).
The incoming Trump administration is likely to see the greatest revival of environmentalism as a confrontational, grassroots, sometimes radical movement since at least 1970, when more than a million people took part in the first Earth Day.
The country’s worst drought in 25 years, spurred by poor management, El Niño and climate change, has reservoirs drying up and hospitals struggling
Teodora Cauna de Quispe hasn’t had water at her house in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, for two weeks. “We can’t wash ourselves or our clothes,” she said. “Every so often there is a bit of muddy water that spurts out of the tap on my patio.”
Voters in many states, including red ones, approved proposals that will reduce our economic divide.
The electoral college has spoken, and the White House as well as Congress are firmly in the hands of the Republican Party, with Donald Trump at their helm.
Residents of Baracoa, Cuba, begin to dig out after Hurricane Matthew destroyed dozens of homes.
While much of Cuba was spared the wrath of Hurricane Matthew, some areas were devastated by flooding and storm surge.
Residents of Baracoa, Cuba, are digging out rubble that was left after Hurricane Matthew hit the eastern portion of the country with heavy flooding and strong storm surge.
