The Interior Department Has Cleared the Way for Energy Developers to Destroy Natural Habitats
Mead Gruver/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just before Christmas, the Interior Department quietly rescinded an array of policies designed to elevate climate change and conservation in decisions on managing public lands,…
Trump’s Cold-Snap Tweet Is Even More Shamelessly Stupid Than You Had First Thought. Here’s Why.
People visit the Niagara Falls during extreme cold weather as sub-zero temperatures are expected across Canada and the United States on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day. Rex Features via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced…
The East Coast Is About to Get Hit by a “Bomb Cyclone”
Sub-zero temperatures are expected across the northeastern United States.Vianney Le Caer/REX/Shutterstock/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Much of the eastern United States has been assaulted by brutally cold temperatures over the last week. New Year’s Eve revelers in New York City rang in 2018 in 9 degree weather—the coldest midnight…
Here’s One Important Lesson From 2017’s Environmental Disasters
Kenneth Song/Santa Barbara News-Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This past year, 2017, was the worst fire season in American history. Over 9.5 million acres burned across North America. Firefighting efforts cost $2 billion. This past year, 2017, was…
Here Are 2017’s Best Protest Posters
Jessica Hill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The year is nearly over, and politically speaking, it hasn’t been pretty. Plenty of outrageous, terrifying, shameful things have happened since Donald Trump took office, but from the very first day of his presidency, a massive contingent of the nation has taken to the…
These 16 Major Environmental Protections Were Cut in 2017
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and…