Climate Change Pushes Ticks Into Canada, Bringing Lyme Disease (and Confusion) With Them
Patrick Pleul/DPA/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joanne Seiff, a resident of Manitoba, contracted Lyme disease a couple of years ago but didn’t remember pulling off the tick that bit her; nor did she have the telltale…
Donald Trump’s Nukes Plan Puts the Whole World in Peril
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who, you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market. It has no chemically induced side effects and, best of…
Thanks to Trump, This Senator Finally Gets Her Chance to Decimate Alaska’s Environmental Protections
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski had been a member of the United States Senate for 15 years. She’d pulled…
Trump Just Delivered a Rambling 80-Minute Speech And It Was a Doozy
Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump flew to southwest Pennsylvania tonight for a rally intended to bolster Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate with a razor-thin lead in the special election to fill an open seat in the state’s 18th congressional district. (Trump won the district…
Why Did No One Notice Yosemite’s Horsetail “Firefall Effect” Before 1973?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When we were at Yosemite National Park a few weeks ago, we happened to be there during peak Horsetail Fall season. We didn’t plan this. It was just a coincidence. Nevertheless, there we were, and so we heard the story of Horsetail Fall two or…
Steve Bannon to French Far-Right: “Let Them Call You Racist…Wear It as a Badge of Honor”
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former White House strategist and Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has a message for members of France’s far-right, xenophobic National Front party. “Let them call you racist,” he told the crowd at the party’s congress in Lille on Saturday. “Let them…