Month August 2010

‘Murder City.’ Juarez is collapsing

Podcast interview from KUER at University of Utah Journalist Charles Bowden has spent some 15 years writing about Ciudad Juarez and in that time, he’s witnessed what he describes as the collapse of a society. In 2009, there were 2,600…

Jerry Brown rebounds in California governor’s race

My latest for CAIVN. Just when everyone including me thought maybe Jerry Brown was down for the count, Meg Whitman stalls in the polls, and Brown starts coming on strong. With environmental issues becoming major issues in the gubernatorial race,…

Hot weather envelopes the planet

Temperature anomalies (degrees Celsius) for January to June 2010. Red dots indicate warmer-than-average conditions, and blue dots indicate areas that were colder than average. Credit: NCDC For denizens of the American Southwest and West, 100 degrees is just starting to…