Eve Andrews

Aug 12, 2024 | msn.com | Eve Andrews

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Aug 12, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Eve Andrews

This is an edition of The Weekly Planet, a newsletter that provides a guide for living through climate change. Sign up for it here. It was the perfect climate conundrum: In August 2022, a mudslide poured into the Highland Park Pool in Pittsburgh. A bout of torrential rain—of the kind that has been accompanying more and more rainstorms in Appalachia—triggered the event, and the pool had to close for the rest of the season to attend to the extensive cleanup and repair.

Jun 24, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Eve Andrews

Above photo:Adam Dixon. The geology of southern West Virginia leaves its groundwater vulnerable to pollution. Making the state’s new natural gas pipeline a risky proposition. There are some who say the water of Monroe County, West Virginia, is the purest and best-tasting in the world — or at least it was in the 1990s.

Jun 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Eve Andrews

One evening in 2019, Janice Blanock was scrolling through Facebook when she heard a stranger mention her son in a video on her feed. Luke, an outgoing high school athlete, had died three years earlier at age 19 from Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Blanock had come across a live stream of a community meeting to discuss rare cancers that were occurring with alarming frequency in south-western Pennsylvania, where she lives.

Apr 11, 2024 | corporateknights.com | Eve Andrews

In 1983, a French oceanographic research institute invited an invader to the country’s northern shores. The Japanese seaweed wakame, which grows in fettuccine-like ochre ribbons, had already made itself at home on the French Mediterranean coast after hitching a ride on an oyster boat from Asia in the 1970s. But the decision to introduce this foreign breed of kelp to three islands off the coast of Brittany was made with the intention of farming it as a commodity.