The Deepwater Horizon Environmental Disaster Was Even Worse than Previously Believed
A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.Gerald Herbert/AP This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico a decade ago was much worse than previously…
The Sunrise Movement Is Taking the Fight to Big Oil’s Home Turf
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019Cliff Owen / AP Photo This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Sunrise Movement, the youth campaign behind the Green New Deal, called…
Car ‘Splatometer’ Tests Reveal Huge Decline in the Number of Insects
A truck driver cleans dead bugs off his windshield at a truck stop in Baytown, Texas. Brett Coomer/AP This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites…
Want to Save the Planet? Easy! Just “Be More Like Donald”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP President Trump is reading a book, and he would very much like you to know about it. It’s a book about himself, called Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero, self-published in 2016 by his former environmental consultant, Edward Russo. Beginning in 2002, Russo consulted on the Trump Organization’s golf courses on matters like…
From Skijoring to Backyard Skating, Winter Fun Is Feeling the Heat of Climate Change
Samantha Young rides her horse Sly while pulling Cody McCarthy over a jump while they practice skijoring in Whitefish, Montana.Robin Loznak/Zuma This piece was originally published in Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On January 20, 2020, Ted Valentiner and the other organizers of annual World Invitational Skijoring Championship in Whitefish,…
Ranchers Feel Blindsided by Trump’s Wall
Part of the border fence in Arizona.Astrid Galvan/AP This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Since 1994, the Malpai Borderlands Group, a coalition of ranchers, has worked to steward approximately 800,000 acres of rangeland in southern Arizona and New Mexico. The group started…