The whole city is dark. No streetlights. No lights in the windows. No TV. No AC. Occasionally there’s a solar powered emergency light, or someone has a generator. But you fumble through many streets in Havana in almost perfect blackness, as if you have been blinded. You don’t know how much you need or want light until it vanishes.
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 2024, when Cy Tongate visited Shelby Park on the eastern bank of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, the area looked more like a warzone than a riverside park in need of weed control. Humvees and […]