The Deepwater Horizon Spill Happened 8 Years Ago. The Ocean Still Hasn’t Recovered.
Researchers took sediment samples in 2014 from shipwrecks scattered up to 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the spill site to study how microbial communities on the wrecks have changed. On two shipwrecks close to the source of the outpouring of oil—a German U-Boat and a wooden 19th-century sailing vessel—scientists saw a visible oil residue. “At…
As California Burns Again, Survivors Return Home to Total Devastation
“We hadn’t even gotten off the ground yet,” he said. “Now it’s in the ground.” It’s not the expensive espresso machines, the cars, or the kitchenware that Harper is most upset about. It’s the items that can’t be replaced: snow globes his children made for him out of old peanut butter jars, and his wife’s…
The Lorax, a Holocaust Prophecy DVD, and Other Weird Stuff People Have Sent Rick Perry
An individual whose name was redacted and company listed as unknown gave Perry a hardcover copy of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, the urgent tale of a mustachioed environmentalist creature who speaks for the trees when greedy industrialists chop them down. The next month, Perry proposed staggering cuts to the Energy Department’s budget, including completely eliminating…
Kennedy Was a “Mixed Bag” for Environmentalists. But What’s Next Could Be Much Worse.
AP Photo/Denis Poroy Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Anthony Kennedy is retiring, and progressives around the country are trying not to freak out. The 81-year-old justice, who has served on the Supreme Court since 1988, has been…
NOAA’s Research Just Shifted from Climate Change to “Empowering the Economy” and “National Security”
This satellite image was taken on the first day of astronomical summer from the NOAA’s GOES East satellite. It captures a storm moving across the central United States.NOAA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the country’s major federal science agencies seems to have been forced to abandon climate change research…
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It
Grist / Sarah Myhre Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems. Looking young and serious, with a long…