CO2: 416.75 ppmThough the spotlight is on Texas, it’s clear that the infrastructure across the South is in crisis after last month's cold snap. Jackson, Mississippi is emblematic of statewide suffering after decades of government disinvestment and aging infrastructure.
Peniel Joseph says the winter storm aftermath in Texas and Mississippi that has disproportionately hit Black and Latinx communities and left many still without access to clean water is one facet of a decades-long national crisis of race and democracy.
The past year has further revealed the vulnerability of our water systems to extreme weather and climate change.
Human fingerprints are all over the world’s freshwater. A study published Wednesday in Nature shows that while human-controlled freshwater sources are a fraction of the world’s waterways, they are responsible more than half of all changes to Earth’s water system.
A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the state's power grid nearly failed and led to dozens of deaths has been fired and utility bills Texans will be paying for decades.
D.C. area’s power grid is much more resilient than that of Lone Star State; flooding is a worry.