For better or worse, this heat wave is forcing Washington to recognize and confront the impacts of climate change. Last year’s “heat dome,” while jarring and traumatic for many, was an exceptional ...
We may not know for a while just how many people died as a result of the unprecedented three-day Northwest heatwave that prompted more than 460 heat-related emergency room visits in King County; at ...
ROME — Europe’s second wave of coronavirus infections has struck well before flu season even started, with intensive care wards filling up again and bars shutting down. Making matters worse, ...
CLIMATEWIRE | The city of Portland was baking last June and Bureau of Emergency Management Director Jonna Papaefthimiou was in crisis mode. Sweltering in temperatures 40 degrees Fahrenheit higher than ...
The Austin Film Festival (AFF) is set to showcase a remarkable lineup of films at this year’s event, Variety is happy to exclusively announce the first selection of films, including the world premiere ...
Our times have been blessed in one limited way: After decades of refusing and shrugging and avoiding, women want to be called feminists. I don’t mean to sound glib about that, or about women’s ...
A woman places a voting sticker on the headstone of Susan B. Anthony, a women's suffrage pioneer, on Election Day in Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 8, 2016. KATHERINE TAYLOR NYT Our times have been blessed in ...