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EcoMadres Investigates How Climate-Charged Hurricanes Threaten Latino Health
Death Sells: New Wildfire Smoke Study Makes Waves
A recent study projects that wildfire smoke exposure in the coming decades could result in tens of thousands of excess deaths in the U.S.
News Cycles Move On. This Altadena Family Displaced by Wildfire Has Not.
One mom and her family fled their home across from Eaton Canyon in January 2025. Nine months later, her house—and her life—remains stuck in remediation limbo.
Wildfire Smoke Is Bad for Kids’ Health. Moms Are Asking Congress to Help.
Read how two moms and their families are coping with more frequent and severe episodes of wildfire smoke.
Extreme Heat Is a Predator: How Climate Change Reshaped a Tucson Family Forever
On a hot day in Tucson, a boy collapsed during a run, suffering harm that put him in a hospital for more than three months and upended his family’s life. Read how this life-or-death moment inspired his brother to channel his fear of heat into action.
Billion-Dollar Disasters Show the Cost of Climate Pollution
Global warming isn’t some distant threat—it’s already hitting us hard, in terms of our health and our wallets. Last year alone, the U.S. was slammed with 27 climate disaster that each caused at least $1 billion in damages.
Summer Heat Wave Fits a Pattern of Increasingly Dangerous Weather
The first heat wave of the summer proved deadly and disruptive, and scientists say there are more to come—and not just this summer.
Hill Country Flooding Up Close: On the Ground With a Texas Mom
Reda Hicks’ 15-year-old son and husband were about 20 miles from Camp Mystic on July 4, at a similar facility called Camp Bandina, when the floodwaters rose. This is her story.
What’s in the Air: Tears, Nightmares, Thoughts, and Prayers
At Moms, we are filled with thoughts and prayers and tears and nightmares for all the mothers, all the families, torn apart by the brutal drowning of their children in the Texas Hill Country. And we are also furious.
Extreme Heat Harms Outdoor Workers: Moms Demand Occupational Safety and Health Administration Protect Them
Moms Clean Air Force staff and members gave testimony at a hearing about OSHA’s Heat Injury Proposal, which could go a long way toward preventing the more than 3,000 heat-related injuries and illness suffered on the job in the U.S. each year.
EcoMadres Investigates Why “Danger Season” 2025 Could Be the Most Perilous Yet—And What We Can Do About It
Although threats from global warming happen year-round, in a recent EcoMadres Investigates conversation, we learned why scientists have begun using the term “Danger Season” for the period between May and October. This is the time of year when climate hazards like extreme heat, wildfires, storms, and floods collide and intensify.
The Climate Questionnaire: Juliette Kayyem, Author of The Devil Never Sleeps
Juliette Kayyem, CNN’s Senior National Security Analyst, speaks with Moms about trying to make sense of this uniquely chaotic time regarding crises, readiness, and the future.