The Most Devastating Pictures From the Last 72 Hours of Fire in California
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, July 29, 5:28 p.m. ET: A local official has confirmed that a sixth person was found dead in the Carr Fire, according to the Associated Press. At least five people have been killed in northern California’s still-growing Carr Fire, including two children and their…
This Summer’s Heat Wave Is a Great Example of the Difference Between Weather and Climate
Zhao Hanrong/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We are currently in the middle of a scorching hot summer with heat records being set around the world. On July 5, it reached 124 degrees Fahrenheit in…
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…