Trump’s EPA Greenlighted a Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains. Hawaii Just Said, “Hell No.”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early months of the Trump Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed an Obama-era proposal to ban the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked by ample research to inhibited brain development in children. “Hawaii’s efforts have set a precedent, and we hope this will pave…
Here’s an Adorable Video of a Baby Tree Kangaroo Taking Its First Hops
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here at Mother Jones, we get that Sundays are best spent relaxing, hanging out with friends and family, and avoiding the daily deluge of troubling news before a new work week begins. That’s where this viral video of a baby tree kangaroo comes in. Taronga Zoo,…
Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows
P.Lindgren/Wikimedia Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Far from shore, the ocean floor is more than an unbroken swath of sand and mud: It can be blanketed with lush, green carpets of seagrass. These wavy expanses are…
Large-Scale Animal Agriculture Is Threatening Rural Communities. Congress Is About to Make it Worse.
dhughes9/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Residents of tiny Lone Jack, MO, are fighting a proposal by a local ranch to expand its feedlot from around 600 cows to nearly 7,000. It is the latest in a series of communities pushing back against a national trend toward concentrated animal agriculture.…
The Trouble With Tuna Poke Bowls
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. My first Thanksgiving in the Bay Area, a new friend invited me to share the holiday with her family. Before the potluck meal kicked off, my friend’s Hawaiian grandmother unveiled a bowl of treasure: cubes of succulent raw ahi, or tuna, lightly seasoned with sesame…
The Trump Administration Is Taking Aim at This Amazing Bird So Oil Companies Can Drill Public Land
A sage-grouse male struts to attract a mateBob Wick/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One weird western bird is again at the center of a battle between conservationists and the federal government. Now, like a lot of environmental causes under the Trump administration, the greater sage-grouse—once a candidate for the…