There’s a Big Hole in the World’s Most Important Glacier. Yes, It’s a Problem.
West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is responsible for about 1 percent of global sea level rise.NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Civilization’s most important glacier has revealed another worrying surprise to scientists. The Thwaites Glacier, the largest outflow…
Trump Just Announced His Pick to Replace Ryan Zinke at the Interior Department
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over a month after Ryan Zinke left his Cabinet position under a cloud of scandal, President Donald Trump finally announced on Monday his nominee for the next Interior secretary. David Bernhardt, the deputy secretary who has been filling in since Zinke’s departure, is his choice. I am…
The Green New Deal Is Already Happening in One Portland Neighborhood
With a large crowd of community members as an audience, the Sugar Shack in Cully neighborhood is destroyed to make room for a new affordable housing development. Courtesy of Living Cully Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate…
When Europeans Colonized the Americas, They Killed So Many That the Earth’s Climate Cooled
This painting depicts Christopher Columbus and members of his crew on a beach in the West Indies, newly landed from his flagship Santa Maria on October 12, 1492.Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. European colonization…
Big Farmers Use Climate-Resistant Seeds. Most Small Farmers Can’t Get Them.
Zhou Haijun/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Half of all humans owe their lives to small farmers, because that’s who grows most of the food in Africa and Asia. But it turns out that small farmers…
House Democrats Just Told the Pentagon to Redo Its Climate Change Report
A hospital shit evacuates Naval Station Norfolk in preparation for Hurricane Florence.Jennifer Hunt/US Navy via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a landmark report that identified the 79 American military installations most vulnerable to the “effects of a changing climate.” The 22-page filing frankly acknowledged the…