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It could be any other food truck spot in West Asheville, North Carolina, with camp chairs grouped under the nearest shady tree and dogs nearly outnumbering the people. But at this bait shop parking lot on Tuesday morning, the lunch — bacon sandwiches with sprouts, and a side of veggies …

Early last Friday morning, Lance Mills was awakened by his son telling him the Swannanoa River in their backyard was coming over its banks. In just a few hours, their home in the small community of Swannanoa, located between Asheville and Black Mountain, North Carolina, would be flooded. “I didn’t …

Hurricane Helene‘s devastating winds, torrential rainfall, and flood waters have caused widespread power outages, leveled entire neighborhoods, and cut off access to food, drinking water, and life-saving medical supplies to millions across the southeastern United States. The Category 4 hurricane made landfall Thursday in the Florida Big Bend and tore …

Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the southeastern United States over the weekend. The category 4 storm has killed more than 100 people, leveled entire towns, and destroyed critical infrastructure. Nowhere has the devastation been more pronounced than in the Carolinas, where mudslides and widespread flooding have created apocalyptic scenes and …

Thisarticlewas produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. In 2020, Donald Trumplost Georgia to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast in the state, one of the closest races in that election. Since that time, the Peach State has seen …

Climate is on the ballot this election season. The two presidential candidates offer vastly different scenarios for our planet’s future. Scientists have said another term led by Donald Trump, who has shopped his campaign to fossil fuel executives, would make America more reliant on energy sources that are heating up …

The climate crisis has been keeping Jane Fonda up at night. “I was so angry, it was hard to go to sleep,” she says. “We are being killed with cancer, heart diseases, because of the burning of fossil fuel,” Fonda presses. “We have the solution to the climate crisis, why …

What if the answer to our planet’s climate crisis was a question? That instead of limiting our spectrum of solutions to recycling more, driving electric cars, and voting (which are indeed great things), we let our imaginations run wild —exploring the possibilities of what could happen if we both collectively …

W hen millions of Americans cast their ballots on Nov. 5, they will be nudging the world in one of two directions: a difficult climate future or one that could be catastrophic. Their vote could alter the strength of hurricanes, the intensity of droughts, the rate of sea-level rise, how …

Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s What If We Get It Right? might be the most helpful book on the planet right now for dreamers, do-ers, and anyone concerned with Earth’s rising temperatures, sea levels, and carbon emissions. It’s especially beguiling for those looking to join the climate fight but don’t …