Rising temperatures are strengthening the destructive force of wildfires, hurricanes and floods, putting tens of millions of Americans at risk.
Tens of thousands of Americans are already paying a high price, their lives shattered by climate calamities.
Here are twenty-one of their stories, and more.
Wildfire
Paradise, CA
November 2018
The Common Language of Loss
Essay
Stephen Murray
How Are We Going to Get Out?
Sam Gronseth
The Most Known Choral Melody in the World
Randy Larsen
These Are the Good Old Days
Daniel Hill
Anyone Who Wasn’t Scared, Wasn’t Here
Holly Ratliff
I Need a Place to Heal
Wally Sipher
My Sister Judy
Brian Alderman
More Fire Than We Could Deal With
Wildfires and Climate Change
What the Science Says
Hurricane
Mexico Beach, FL
October 2018
The Sounds That Trigger Trauma
Essay
Mayor Al Cathey
I Never Thought This Would Happen
Tan Smiley
I Could Not Believe What My Eyes Had Seen
Brittany Pitts
I Have to Hold on to This Baby
Pastor Chester Davis
In a Time of Trouble, Let’s Wait on God
Hal Summers
I Thought I Was the Only Person Alive
Gina Vicari
They Didn’t Even Find Her for Days and Days
Shawna & Peggy Wood
Goodbye to the Grand Old Lady
Hurricanes and Climate Change
What the Science Says
Flood
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska
March 2019
The Bonds Between People and Animals
Essay
Louis Byford
I’m a Determined Man
Kim & Kevin Johnson
We’re Not Going to Rebuild Here
Gabe Richardson
Everybody Lost Everything
Mike & Nancy Crosley
It’s Time to Get Outta Here
Clint Pischel
It Was Damn Near Instant
Merle Stuthman
She Was My Second Best Trophy Cow
John Davis
This Is Not Normal Weather
