The Fungi Decimating Amphibians Is Worse Than We Thought
This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 400 million years, amphibians have led a highly successful double life on Earth, foraging on terra and reproducing in water. They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and any number of other worldwide catastrophes, but they’ve never seen a…
Chart of the Day: Q1 Growth Is Looking Pretty Anemic
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Capital Spectator has rounded up the latest batch of forecasts for Q1 economic growth: We’re still a month away from the official BEA estimate, but there’s a lot of agreement in these forecasts. If growth really has fallen to 1.4 percent, that will make…
Emily Post’s Great-Great-Granddaughter Explains the Proper Way to Get High
MmeEmil/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s something fundamentally social about consuming cannabis, whether that’s smoking a bowl with a circle of friends, passing a joint around at a concert, or attending an exclusive, West Coast cannabis-infused dinner party. But all that social interaction begs the question of etiquette, and…
Trump Threatens to Close the Border. Again.
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is, once again, threatening to shut down the southern border. It is at least the seventh time he has done so on Twitter since October. But for the first time, Trump is getting specific. He tweeted on Friday morning…
How Unaffordable Is Housing Today?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an op-ed over at BuzzFeed, the national director of the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign says that most people think housing affordability is a big problem: Those people aren’t imagining things: The affordability crisis has indeed reached historic heights, and the data is shocking.…
Interior Nominee’s Swampy Industry Ties Take Center Stage at Confirmation Hearing
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Bernhardt, the nominee to serve as the next secretary of the Interior Department, was questioned about his ties to industry and accused of meddling with agency science during a confirmation hearing on Thursday, but managed to walk away from the…