The Best Parts About Summer Are Also the Worst for the Planet
Madison McVeigh/CityLab Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s finally (almost) summer, and cities are coming alive with outdoor festivals, farmers markets-turned-street fairs, movie screenings in the park, and food-truck rallies. Much of that activity runs on mobile…
Enjoy Those Avocados, Pistachios and Oranges While You Can, Because They Are Going Away
Grist/Armin Staudt/EyeEm/Fridholm, Jakob/Douglas Sacha/Getty Images 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. Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained black, as if someone had ladled tar over its bark. In…
Scott Pruitt Tried to Give Men “Property Rights” Over Fetuses
This story was originally published by The HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Scott Pruitt, then an Oklahoma state senator, introduced a bill to grant men “property rights” over unborn fetuses, requiring women to obtain the would-be father’s permission before aborting a pregnancy. Pruitt, now the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection…
No One Had Seen These Tiny Deer for 20 Years. Then One Day, They Came Back.
A large antlered muntjac.Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1994, scientists researching in Vietnam first documented the elusive large-antlered muntjac in the semi-evergreen Vu Quang Nature Reserve, in…
Remember the Hole in the Ozone Layer? This Scientist Discovered It
Susan Solomon on an Antarctic expedition in 1987.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. On May 24, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award one of the world’s largest scientific prizes to two of the…
Desert Bees Have Figured Out Something We’re All Going Need To Learn
Olivia Carril (above) has added dozens of species to the list of bees documented in Bandelier National Monument.Sara Van Note Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A cluster of leafcutter bees are foraging for nectar and pollen on…