by Tik Root | Jul 17, 2026 | Air Quality, Climate Crisis, Extreme Heat, FIFA, FIFA World Cup, News, Public Health, smoke, Sports, Wildfire, Wildfires, World Cup
The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the match and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, doesn’t appear to have any plan in place to protect player or fan health. Wildfire smoke blowing from Canada has blanketed large swaths of the…
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by Victoria Law | Jun 6, 2026 | access to health care, California, Climate Change, Extreme Heat, Heat Deaths, Incarceration, Lawsuit, News, Texas
The Central California Women’s Facility, the nation’s largest women’s prison, is in Chowchilla, where temperatures reached past 90 degrees by the second week of May. The prison lacks air conditioning or any facility-wide cooling system, turning cells into saunas. “I dread going to my groups at night because we have to wait forever at the gates and we cannot bring water with us. We can’t take…
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