Writing Team
We found a study that reconstructed every death in a catastrophic flood. One detail won't leave me alone: one in five people who died indoors were in their basements trying to save their homes. They were doing the rational thing. It killed them. That pattern kept surfacing as we built this issue. A disabled veteran in Hawai'i has electricity but no running water, because the utility serving him has four owners and none can fix it. Appraisers are valuing homes with sales data from before anyone priced the risk. You've probably rearranged parts of your own life without tallying what it costs. This issue is about what those quiet changes are telling you.
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.
