The Verdict Is In: Trump’s Evening Wear Is Hideous
Those of us who are not fashion experts have been puzzled for the past week over the dinner jacket President Trump wore to the state dinner at Buckingham Palace on Monday. Today, we finally have the definitive fashion story from the Daily Mail. Bottom line: Trump’s evening wear was even worse than we thought and…
Support for Impeachment Has Nearly Doubled Among Independents
Patrick Semansky/AP A small majority of Americans are now in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump, censuring him, or continuing investigations into his actions, according to a new poll. And among key group, political independents, support for impeachment has nearly doubled in the past month. In April, when asked what Congress should do with the…
Trump Administration Suppresses Its Own Findings About Catastrophic Climate Change
John McConnico/AP The White House prevented State Department officials from submitting testimony to Congress that warns of climate change catastrophe. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that after reviewing the written testimony, White House officials tried to remove references to the government’s own scientific findings on global warming. The prepared statement included references to catastrophic…
Microplastic Is Ruining the Beauty of Monterey Bay
Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California’s Monterey Bay is one of the more pure, more dynamic coastal ecosystems on Earth. Otters—once hunted nearly to extinction—float among towering kelp forests, which themselves have rebounded thanks to the booming otter population’s appetite for kelp-loving sea urchins.…
A “Bomb Cyclone” Blew Up This Year’s Corn Harvest
Corn in a field flooded by waters from the Nishnabotna River near Anderson, Iowa.Nati Harnik/AP Photo It’s a sunny, hot June afternoon just outside the northwestern Illinois town of Kewanee, and fifth-generation farmer Brian Corkill really should be planting. By this time of year, he tells me, he’s typically “long since done” sowing 1,300 acres of…
Dream Big, Reach for the Stars, and Don’t You Dare Mention Climate Change
Marty Caivano/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Schools and colleges across the US have been accused of censoring students who have attempted to use their graduation speeches to speak out on the unfolding climate crisis. A youth-led movement called Class of 0000 is…