Internal Emails Show How EPA Officials Lobby For Their Former Employers
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to implement a controversial policy that would drastically limit the scientific research that the agency uses to write environmental rules. While environmental activists are concerned the change could undermine EPA rules on air pollution and…
A New Study Shows the Stunning Amount of Food People Toss in the Garbage Every Day
Brian Jenkins/UVM Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before you toss that bruised apple or let your leftovers spoil in the fridge, you might want to digest this: New research finds that Americans waste nearly a pound of food per person every day. That’s roughly equal to 30 percent of the average…
Federal Watchdog Says Scott Pruitt’s $43,000 Phone Booth Violated the Law
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ethics problems keep piling up. In a legal opinion released Monday, the Government Accountability Office concluded that Pruitt’s decision to spend $43,238 on a soundproof privacy booth for phone calls in his office violated federal law. The booth’s cost…
Earth’s Powerful, Climate-Shaping Water Currents Are Weak and Broken and It’s Time to Freak Out
piola666/iStock/Getty 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. The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The…
Here’s How to Mourn a Bird, a Butterfly, a Bat, or any Endangered Species You Love
Katie Tume AKA Mother Eagle 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. An oversized paper mâché sunflower rose like a pale moon against the dusk of a central Brighton park. Amid the shivering group of 30 people on the chilly…
Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows
P.Lindgren/Wikimedia Commons 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. Far from shore, the ocean floor is more than an unbroken swath of sand and mud: It can be blanketed with lush, green carpets of seagrass. These wavy expanses are…