Amal Ahmed

Mar 18, 2025 | sierraclub.org | Amal Ahmed

On a crisp, sunny morning in early March, Tonya Enger scampered through a clearing near Washington’s Yacolt Burn State Forest. The soil was so soft that it sank as she walked through the lush understory. Enger, the founder of a local civic engagement group called Vancouver Forestkeeper, frequently leads tours here. “It’s beautiful in the fall,” she said. “And in the summer, the huckleberry bushes are full and bright red.” She pointed out thriving mushrooms, moss, and lichen as she made her way.

Mar 1, 2025 | hcn.org | Amal Ahmed

In the rainy months, when Tracy Prescott-MacGregor stomps on the ground in her produce garden, you can hear the water, just inches below the soil, slosh and ripple. “The water table is so high that if you dig about six inches, you’ll hit water,” she said. That’s what makes the soils here, on the Columbia River’s floodplain, so rich and productive. Prescott-MacGregor and her husband retired to their farm in Clatskanie, Oregon, about an hour northwest of Portland, almost two decades ago.

Mar 1, 2025 | flipboard.com | Amal Ahmed

Climate group exodus is good for pensioners and taxpayersThe nation’s big investment firms and banks have withdrawn from net-zero climate groups amid questions from Nebraska and many other red states about …

Feb 8, 2025 | theguardian.com | Amal Ahmed

As wildfires swept through southern Oregon in 2020, killing at least 11 people, destroying thousands of homes and burning more than 1m acres of land, the region’s farm workers faced a brutal choice: stay and work through the growing haze of smoke and the approaching blaze, or lose out on their daily wages. Farm workers across the US are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, feeling its effects – from natural disasters to heat – first and, often, the worst.

Jan 13, 2025 | resilience.org | Amal Ahmed

When wildfires swept through southern Oregon in 2020, Maria and her family lost 14 years of hard work almost overnight. Their home, their car, and most of their belongings went up in smoke. In the four years since, in their efforts to rebuild, they have also wiped out most of their savings, Maria says through an interpreter. (We are not using her full name due to immigration concerns.)Maria and her husband both work in restaurants in the sparsely populated Rogue Valley.