Bear Cub Killers in Alaska Have an Ally in Donald Trump
Education Images/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The brutal scene unfolded in 30-second snapshots, captured in discrete moments by a motion-activated camera. Two hunters skied toward a den on Esther Island in southern Alaska and found a sow and its two newborn bear cubs. After killing all three with rifles, the hunters…
Along with Monsanto, Chemical Giant Bayer Inherits Its Pests
Outside of Bayer’s annual shareholder May 2018 meeting in Bonn, activists protested the German company’s acquisition of Monsanto. AP Photo/Martin Meissner Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Seed and pesticide titan Monsanto continues its slow shuffle off the global stage and into the maw of Bayer, its new parent company. This week,…
Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”
People fish for steelhead in the Grand Ronde River.ed Conklin/ZUMApress.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s…
An Army of Deer Ticks Carrying Lyme Disease Is Advancing and Here’s Why It Will Only Get Worse
Mother Jones illustration; nechaev-kon/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before…
Your Chicken’s Salmonella Problem Is Worse Than You Think
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Americans love chicken, but it doesn’t always love us back. We eat way more of it than any other meat, and it triggers more foodborne disease outbreak-related illnesses than any other food, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The main…
A Judge Just Ruled the Trump Administration Has Failed in Protecting the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal
The vaquita porpoiseOmar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a win for environmentalists Thursday, the United States Court of International Trade ruled that the federal government failed its “statutory duty” to protect the critically-endangered vaquita porpoise. With as few as 15 individuals remaining in the wild, the vaquita is the world’s…