Writing Team
Here's what caught us. U.S. rivers now deliver almost all their annual sediment in about 50 days. Used to be 69. A water plant operator has fewer days to catch the surge, less margin when she misses one. We found that same compression everywhere this week: fire crews facing back-to-back dangerous days with no rest rotation, a Colorado rancher hauling water nine hours straight because the drought won't break. In North Carolina, a family has been carrying two mortgages for 20 months waiting on a government buyout. The time people counted on to respond, to recover, to plan around is shrinking. This issue lives inside those closing windows.
Maya Jiménez
Maya Jiménez, 34, is a Polk Award-winning narrative journalist covering climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience. Born in Guatemala City and raised in Oakland, she specializes in collaborative journalism that centers frontline voices, spending months embedded with communities facing climate impacts.
Seth D. Carrington
Former merchant seaman and labor journalist who spent decades watching working communities navigate crises while elites offered empty promises. Writes with dark humor about the gap between climate rhetoric and lived reality.
