Articles by John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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The worst wildfires in a decade pour acrid smoke over Sydney
There are roughly 100 blazes popping in southeastern Australia, making the sky almost as black as night.
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Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution
A new NASA map of the planet lays out the depressing geographies of smog and premature death.
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Harsh drought is drying up New Mexico’s largest reservoir
El Paso's drier than an cow bone baking in the Chihuahuan Desert, and an important source of water for drinking and farming has shrunk into a sandy puddle.
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America’s wicked, deadly heat wave last week
American cities could see many more hot-weather fatalities in the decades to come, as climate change drives longer and more frequent heat waves.
