US Groundwater Is Being Shipped Overseas
Alfalfa hay is a water-intensive crop, and exporting it is equivalent to exporting precious groundwater.Jack Richardson Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s deepening water crisis—and…
The Race to Save the Great Salt Lake
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s deepening water crisis—and the forces behind it, from historic drought to short-sighted policies to corrupt lawmakers and the special…
18 California Kids Sue EPA For “Allowing” Dangerous Emissions
A three-year-old at a climate change protest in Los Angeles, California with a sign that says “My Future is In Your Hands”Ronen Tivony/SOPA/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Eighteen California children are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency over its role in the climate crisis. In a lawsuit filed on Sunday,…
Al Gore: UN Climate Summit “on the Verge of Complete Failure”
Al Gore at the COP28 climate summit.Kamran Jebreili/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United Nations climate summit in Dubai promises no shortage of drama in its final days—in part because negotiations over whether or not to phase out global fossil fuel use appear to…
Invisible Gas Clouds Are Warming the Poles Faster Than We Predicted
Iceberg A-23A, drifting northward across the Weddell Sea. NASA Earth/ZUMA This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you had lived some 50 million years ago and taken a trip to the poles, you would have found lush forests and creatures like crocodiles instead of miles-thick ice…
In India, a Growing Need for AC Could Add to Global Heating
Men remove an air conditioner in advance of a building demolition in New Delhi.Naveen Sharma/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighborhood often…