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The Panoche Hills: the strange sere bones of an ancient landscape

October 13, 2015 By David Bacon

A reflection on the dry landscape and living history of the Panoche Hills: It is austere, it is dry, it is dramatically beautiful.

California landscape scorched as wildfires blaze on

September 15, 2015 By Blake Skylar

With 700,000 acres burned so far this year, there's no end in sight for the inferno; or firefighters and victims, the numbers represent an uphill battle.

Accumulation of greenhouse gases a “planetary emergency”

August 19, 2014 By Sam Webb

If eloquent words and scientific data don't move you to be a better steward of this fragile place we call Earth, then make it personal.

Today in eco-history: The worst storm of the Dust Bowl

April 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On April 14, 1935, The "Black Sunday Storm," one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history, caused immense economic and agricultural damage

Oct. 8 in Labor History: The Great Chicago Fire

October 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In addition to 300 dead there were 100,000 left homeless. When the fire destroyed the waterworks, the city's water supply was cut off and the firefighters were forced to give up.