Microplastics Are Invisible, Scary, and Everywhere
Orlando Barria/EFE via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a recent sticky summer afternoon in Manhattan, a team of scientists took to the Hudson River to trawl for trash. There weren’t any mangled bags,…
This Is Why Lawmakers Want to Gut the Endangered Species Act
A male sage grouse performs a mating dance.Keith R. Crowley/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed.” With those words, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into…
Lawmakers Just Stripped Anti-Environment Riders from the Defense Bill
the greater sage grouseJeannie Stafford/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a rare victory for environmentalists in the Trump era, the latest draft of a major defense spending bill has been stripped of provisions that targeted environmental protections, according to documents from the House-Senate Conference Committee released early this week. The policy riders…
Let’s Face It: We’ve Overexploited Photos of Cute Polar Bears
Paul Zinken/DPA via ZUMA Press 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. Climate change has a new symbol, and it’s not melting ice floes or charismatic megafauna. Last week, researchers at Yale University and the University of Westminster published an…
Safer, Cleaner Nuclear Energy—If We Want It
Imago via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while—in the process— transforming…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…