Peter Arkle illustrations

  Pacific Gas & Electric starts shutting off power to thousands of California customers as an ongoing fire safety precaution.

  A heat wave bakes India. Temperatures in Rajasthan reach 123 degrees F, and the four reservoirs that supply Chennal (population 9.1 million) go dry.

 Republican lawmakers in 18 states want to criminalize protests against fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines.

illustrations by Peter Arkle, Sierra Magazine September/October 2019