This 70-Year-Old Republican Mayor Wants to Prove That His Small Southern Town Can Go Green
Abita Springs residents celebrate the commitment to 100% clean energy at Abita Springs Earth Fest 2017.George Long Photography Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Mayor Greg Lemons counted every single street light in Abita Springs, Louisiana, and found there were 256. If his town of about 2,900 residents switched over to solar-powered lamps and LED…
New Documents Show Why Scott Pruitt Wanted a “Campaign-Style” Media Operation
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Internal records from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal the agency had hired a Republican firm last December to “directly support” Administrator Scott Pruitt and senior EPA officials with “an aggressive style of campaign-style” media monitoring. The EPA wanted the firm…
I Asked a Bunch of Scientists if Climate Change Was Affecting the Bacteria in My Gut
Grist/Amelia Bates 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. Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don’t) jokingly blame all kinds of things on it, from flat tires to summer hailstorms. Case of the…
New Study of Bitcoin’s Energy Use Makes You Libertarian Nerds Look Even Worse Than Usual
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/ZUMA 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. Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since Grist first wrote about it six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year, according to a…
A $50,000-a-Night Underwater Hotel Room in the Maldives Shows How Oblivious We Are to Climate Change
Andrey Nekrasov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a tiny nation that will likely be underwater due to sea level rise within the next century, an American luxury hotel chain is constructing an underwater hotel room that…
We’re Getting Way Better at Forecasting Storms, and It’s Helping Humanitarian Groups
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 an era of increasingly extreme hurricanes, floods, and drought, the people in charge of preparing for disasters depend on meteorologists to anticipate where the next catastrophe might strike. Here’s some good…