There May Be More Racist Border Patrol Facebook Groups
John Moore/Getty Images On Saturday, CNN reported that it had found another Facebook group in which Border Patrol frequently posted racist and generally bigoted memes, called “The Real CBP Nation.” Thousands of members had left the group in the wake of ProPublica’s report on “I’m 10-15” according to one of the posts on CNN. The…
What Will Be Left When We’re Gone? Bones, Plastic, Radioactive Waste, and Lots of Garbage.
Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Millions of years from now, what will be left of us? At the rate we’re going, nature might well have taken over. Moscow and Mumbai will be sand and gravel cast across the desert expanse; New…
On the Road with the Black Pumas
The Black Pumas are a heavy-grooving soul-rock band from Austin that came together around the collaboration of big-hearted singer Eric Burton and Grammy-winning guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada. Quesada has a rich background playing and producing soul, funk, and Latin music, and he earned his Grammy as a member of Grupo Fantasma in 2010. (The…
Trees Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
A new paper is getting a lot of attention for its claim that the earth has about 2 billion acres of land that are currently unused and could support the planting of 500 billion trees. Once the trees were grown, they’d capture about 205 gigatonnes of carbon. That sounds great, but let’s give it some…
Trump Is Going to Brag About All He’s Done for the Environment. No. Really.
Donald Trump on a tour of the Flint, Michigan water plant in 2016, when he was the Republican presidential nominee.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump plans to go on the offensive against criticism of his industry-friendly rollbacks of environment…
Trump Administration Shockingly Revives Push for Census Citizenship Question
Demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices issue a decision on the constitutionality of asking a citizenship question on the 2020 census, June 27, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/AP In a shocking reversal, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court on Friday that they were exploring how to revive the Trump administration’s push to…