Super Typhoon Bavi: What to know, How you can help
My island home has once again been walloped by a powerful storm. I write this from Washington, D.C., where conversations about extreme weather this weekend are dominated by heat waves, air quality alerts, and record-breaking temperatures . Climate change is increasingly impossible to ignore. For people living in air conditioned comfort like me, climate change is a dangerous inconvenience; for isolated islands like the Mariana Islands it is an existential threat. This weekend, Super Typhoon Bavi passed directly over Rota before battering Guam and the rest of the Northern Mariana Islands with destructive winds, torrential rain, flooding, and widespread power outages. The storm arrived only a few months after Super Typhoon Sinlaku devastated Saipan and Tinian, forcing many families who were still recovering from one disaster to prepare for another. For me, every major typhoon is a reminder that climate vulnerability is not distributed equally across the American political landscape ...