Posts by Mahak Singhal

Maria Santos remembers when her grandmother's house in Jakarta sat comfortably above the street level. Today, that same house requires sandbags during every rainy season, and the front steps disappear…

Sarah stared at her 401(k) statement last Tuesday morning, watching her retirement savings inch upward by another $127. At 34, she'd been dutifully setting aside 15% of her salary for…

Sarah stared at her heating bill in disbelief. £312 for December alone. She'd been so careful, turning the thermostat down to 12°C every morning before work and switching it back…

Sarah had been burning through her winter firewood budget by January for three years running. Every evening, she'd load up her wood stove with what seemed like half a cord,…

Sarah Martinez had been tracking weather patterns for her farm in Central California for over two decades. Last summer, she watched her crops wither under temperatures that seemed to break…

Sarah stared at the pasta sauce jar like it had personally insulted her family. Dinner guests would arrive in twenty minutes, the spaghetti was already boiling, and this stubborn lid…

My geography teacher held up a globe and asked us to guess which was bigger: Greenland or Africa. Half the class pointed to Greenland. She smiled knowingly and spun the…

It was three hours before midnight on New Year's Eve 2019, and my kitchen looked like a disaster zone. The turkey was taking forever, my homemade bread rolls were burning,…

Sarah hadn't touched her thermostat in three years. Set to 19°C since she moved into her flat, it seemed like the responsible choice—everyone knew that was the "right" temperature for…

Sarah discovered the truth on a Tuesday morning when she stepped outside with her coffee. The bird feeders she'd lovingly filled just yesterday were completely empty, and scattered beneath them…