When Climate Change Drove All the Men Away
A woman removes weeds from a family farm plot of corn and beans in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Bill Lambrecht/Zuma This piece was originally published in the National Observer and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Miles short of the Mexico-US border, rough hands yanked Javier Hernandez from the trunk. They beat him,…
Trump Has Been Very Bad for Vulnerable Animals. The Administration May Finally Have to Change Its Behavior.
A northern spotted owlRobin Loznak/ZUMA In the past three years, the Trump administration has targeted rules and regulations critical for wildlife survival from every angle: It has stripped long-standing protections and instituted new hoops to jump through in the name of economic growth. It has made it easier for polluters to dump pesticides in lakes and rivers. It…
Hives Out: Bees Are Getting Boosted
NurPhoto / Getty Images This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mike Potts was aware he was at risk of being a victim of crime, he just didn’t think it would happen to him. But Potts is an owner of an increasingly valuable commodity that…
How Can Jeff Bezos Spend $10 Billion Fighting Climate Change? We Have a Few Ideas.
Ted S. Warren/AP This story originally ran in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Monday, Amazon CEO and world’s richest human Jeff Bezos announced he was pledging nearly 8 percent of his net worth to fight climate change. This money, known as the Bezos Earth Fund, will be used to support…
Trump’s Plan to Plant a Trillion Saplings Misses the Forest for the Trees
Misty Fjords National Monument in the Tongass National Forest, AlaskaYegoroV/Shutterstock Donald Trump, it turns out, is a fan of trees. A big fan. Such a fan, in fact, that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the president announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Tree Initiative, an…
The Enormous but Hidden Consequences of Antarctica’s Record Heat
An iceberg in the sun in Paulet Island, Antarctica.Ric Tapia/AP This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week Antarctica outdid itself, and not in a good way, setting a high for its warmest temperature ever recorded: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. If the first thought that popped…