California residents have become accustomed to historically large wildfires occurring at an astonishing pace, with  eight of the ten  larges...

Tulare Lake has been much in the news in recent months.  The lake is that massive body of water in California's Central Valley that hist...

Though Vermont is known as a very rural state, I haven't seen much coverage of this week's flooding there that used the word "r...

Several national media outlets have recently reported out of the rural reaches of northern New Mexico.  I collect these stories, all of some...

Last week, the levee protecting the town of Pajaro, California from the Pajaro River failed amidst the tenth atmospheric river of the 2022-2...

NPR reports that the Coast Guard has been air dropping hay to parts of Humboldt County, population 136,000 in far northern California, whe...

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying a toxic chemical derailed in a small Ohio town of 4,718 called East Palestine. The c...

That is the subject of two stories in yesterday's Los Angeles Times , one focused on the economics and sustainability of doing so , the ...

" How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding " is the headline for a big story out of easte...

Courtney Lucas published this essay in the Washington Post a few days ago, the third day of the record-breaking floods that have hit the are...

I first became aware of the flooding in Montana thanks to this journalist out of Red Lodge, Montana yesterday morning.  Here's what  cam...

NPR reported this morning from near Las Vegas, New Mexico, population 13,000, where wildfires have been raging for weeks.  The piece featur...

Alex Wigglesworth reported yesterday for the Los Angeles Times under the headline, " These wildfire survivors say FEMA did little to he...

Screenshot from proposed Guenoc Valley development website mentions "managed rural landscape"  Judge J. David Markham of the Super...

The Los Angeles Times is just one of many outlets reporting Tuesday on PG&E's role in the ignition of the Dixie Fire in July, 2021,...

It's been interesting to see how journalists --especially national journalists --have described what happened yesterday with the Amtrak ...