Why Is This Federal Pollution Tracker Shutting Down?
Toxmap allowed users to pan and zoom across a map of the United States and Canada to discover information about environmental contamination, and to cross-reference that with other relevant data, like demographics and population. /NLM This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Fifteen years ago,…
Michael Bloomberg Has a Toxic Legacy on Lead
Democratic presidential candidate former New York City mayor.Justin Sullivan/Getty This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When Cordell Cleare went to meet the mayor of New York City for the first time in winter 2003, she expected to be disappointed. The Harlem mother had spent…
Soon We May All Be Suffering from Climate Whiplash
Night long exposure photograph of the Santa Clarita wildfire in CA./Getty This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by…
Maybe Elephant Poachers Aren’t as Evil as You Think
Moiz Husein/ Getty One of the very few certainties in life is that poaching elephants is a terrible thing to do. It is also a lucrative thing to do because of the profitable market for ivory tusks in China. As a result, the population of these intelligent and magisterial animals in Africa and Asia has…
Here’s What’s Missing From Mayor Pete’s Plan for Climate Justice in Latinx Communities
Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has lunch with a few supporters at Panaderia on November 26, 2019 in Denison, Iowa.Scott Olson/Getty Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg released a white paper on Monday focused on a slew of policy proposals aimed at Latinx voters. Entitled “El Pueblo Unido/A People United: A New…
The UN Climate Negotiations Are Officially a Disaster and the US Helped Screw It Up
A youth protest outside COP25 in Madrid.AP/Manu Fernandez, Zuma Each year, the United Nations holds a conference on climate change to try to nudge the biggest polluters toward containing warming under well below 2 degrees Celsius. Now, that goal seems more fantastical than ever; the world is on track for the absolute worst-case, business-as-usual scenario…