Is Georgia About to Hand Its Universities to a Climate-Denying MAGA Stalwart?
Sonny Perdue with cardboard Trump cutoutTom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Sonny Perdue, Donald Trump’s loyal-till-the-end agriculture secretary, could use a new job. Georgia’s sprawling public university system needs a new chancellor. The University…
California Is Headed Toward Another Brutal Wildfire Season
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.A wildfire in Southern California grew to 1,325 acres on Sunday as roughly 1,000 Topanga Canyon residents had to be evacuated from their homes. Just like that, fire…
And You Thought Poisoning Feral Pigs Would Be Easy?
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early one winter morning in 2020, Kurt VerCauteren discovered a cluster of dead birds in a…
“I’m Scared of Getting Sick From the Water”
Cheryl and Edward Blackhawk outside their home in El Adobe, California. Martin do Nascimento/California Health Report Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…
Wyoming Threatens to Sue States That Won’t Buy its Coal
Several coal mines that operate out of the small town of Gillette, Wyoming seen from space. December 28, 2015. Tim Kopra/Planet Pix/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced…
How Bitcoin Mining Keeps Old Fossil-Fuel Plants Alive
Omar Marques/SOPA Images/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One decade and $1 trillion after the debut of Bitcoin, the…