Jail Is a Terrible Place to Have a Period. One Woman Is on a Crusade to Make It Better.
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the long list of worst places to deal with a period, jail hovers at the top. Christine Kolba found that out last February while detained for a drug charge in the San Mateo County jail, just south of San…
Berkeley Has No More Forks to Give
bbstudio_aad/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It might be a good time to invest in a coffee thermos, at least if you live in Berkeley, California: Its city council unanimously passed an ordinance on January 22 to limit restaurants and food vendors from using single-use foodware like plastic-lined paper cups and…
Here’s an Especially Terrifying New Danger from the Rise in Wildfires
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by YaleEnvironment360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early in the evening of August 12, 2017, heat and smoke from an intense wildfire burning in the forests of British Columbia began mushrooming skyward, sucking up ash, blazing wood and vegetation,…
Consumer Groups Want a New Government Agency Created to Protect Data Privacy
alashi/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of tech consumer groups and racial justice organizations released an aggressive new proposal on Thursday calling on the federal government to create an entirely new federal agency tasked with data privacy protection. “Our privacy laws are decades out of date,” the…
It Was a Bad Year for Carbon Emissions—Even in California
Paul Harris/Getty Images 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. Carbon emissions are rising in the the United States, and it looks like the golden green state of California is part of the problem. Despite putting up acres of…
California’s Camp Fire Was the World’s Costliest Natural Disaster in 2018
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp fire, which killed 86 people and burned the Northern California town of Paradise to the ground in November, was last year’s most expensive natural disaster worldwide, according to a report from German-based global reinsurance company Munich Re. The fire, which…