There’s a Big Hole in the World’s Most Important Glacier. Yes, It’s a Problem.
West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is responsible for about 1 percent of global sea level rise.NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Civilization’s most important glacier has revealed another worrying surprise to scientists. The Thwaites Glacier, the largest outflow…
House Dems Are Set to Take a Step to Help Robert Mueller Prosecute Perjury
Donald Trump Jr. during his interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee on December 13, 2017.Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House intelligence committee is set to vote Wednesday to formally send the Justice Department transcripts of interviews from the panel’s investigation into Russian election interference, a step…
Trump Just Announced His Pick to Replace Ryan Zinke at the Interior Department
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over a month after Ryan Zinke left his Cabinet position under a cloud of scandal, President Donald Trump finally announced on Monday his nominee for the next Interior secretary. David Bernhardt, the deputy secretary who has been filling in since Zinke’s departure, is his choice. I am…
How Big Beer’s Fight Over Corn Syrup Explains American Brewing Today
Bud Light/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you watched the Super Bowl last night, you probably learned something about megabrands of US beer: that some of them, namely Coors Light and Miller Lite, contain corn syrup, while another, Bud Light, doesn’t. The big reveal arrived in the form of…
After Trump’s Election, There Was a Big Spike in Long-Term Birth Control Use
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Why Are the French So Afraid of Other Languages?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Uh oh. Now we’ve pissed off the French intellectuals: A celebration of the “Scène Young Adult” at the Salon du Livre in Paris next month has drawn the condemnation of dozens of French authors and intellectuals, who have described the adoption of English terminology as…