Environment
- Insurance and the LA fires: Is staggering cost threatening the industry?An author who has studied wildfires discusses the insurance industry's response - including the challenges that large-scale disasters present, and possible solutions.
- Points of ProgressIncome grows in Africa, and solar power soars in PakistanProgress roundup: Colombian women chose fish farms over coca, Africa made income gains, and solar power is surging in Pakistan.
- Trump, Musk want to curb FEMA. Its North Carolina response says volumes.President Trump derided FEMA as politicized and inadequate. North Carolina is a reality check for needed reforms.
- Points of ProgressBee fences and women taxi drivers to protect peopleProgress roundup: Taxi companies built by women are improving their safety. And fences made of beehives are keeping farmers safer from elephants.
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- LA fires left blank slate for rebuilding. Whose priorities will chart the path?With the LA fires contained, homeowners will be deciding how to rebuild. Officials, nonprofits, and others are already weighing in on what new homes and communities could look like.
- Points of ProgressFrom worst to best: How Poland reduces traffic deaths, and Sri Lanka fixes wetlandsProgress roundup: With safety and well-being in mind, Warsaw’s measures halved traffic fatalities. And Sri Lanka’s capital is restoring wetlands.
- Points of ProgressChildren first: Protecting and nurturing, from Colombia to FinlandProgress roundup: Children’s rights and needs drove national policy in Colombia and Finland. And for coastal areas, new proof of seabeds as carbon sinks.
- The ExplainerCleanup of LA fires has begun – and toxins are a key challengeHazardous waste and the scale of the disaster make fire cleanup tricky for Los Angeles and the EPA.
- Madagascar fights to save the forests that made it famousDespite pledges to halt deforestation and youth-led efforts to reverse it, Madagascar is losing its trees faster than almost anywhere else on Earth.
- In LA, residents weigh whether to sell or rebuild after fires destroy their homesResidents who lost houses to fire weigh selling properties to corporate buyers as costs of available housing in Greater Los Angeles skyrockets.
- What is it like to be a mom amid the Los Angeles fires? I can tell you.Parents and kids in Los Angeles have seen their lives upended by fires, smoke, and evacuation alerts. Our reporter shares her own experience.
- In Los Angeles, as Palisades Fire burns, resilience begins to take holdAt an emergency shelter near the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, resilience has started to bloom even as the flames burn on.
- Points of ProgressWhy preschool matters in Mexico and bees thrive in SloveniaProgress roundup: Preschool has lasting positive affects for children in Mexico, Slovenia’s affinity for bees aids in their conservation, and more.
- What I saw in LA-area fire evacuations: Caring for people and their safetyThe wind-fueled fires around Los Angeles destroyed many homes. Our West Coast reporter reflects on finding safety and community amid the danger.
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