This 16-Year-Old Founded a “Movement of Unstoppable Youth” to Save the Planet
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Sorry, it’s homeroom,” Jamie Margolin, a 16-year-old climate activist and high school sophomore, tells me when I call for an interview. “Let me get to a quieter spot.” Margolin, who lives in Seattle, is used to juggling homework, debate club, media interviews, writing op-eds,…
California Has a Controversial Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Drivers Aren’t Going to Like It.
tommaso79/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco-Bay Area did a remarkable job of rebounding from the 2008 Recession: The region has since added 640,000 new jobs, and its unemployment rate hovers around three percent. But as you’ve probably heard, the area’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with its population growth,…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…
Meet a 63-Year-Old, 7,800-Acre, Living Laboratory
When he’s not picking up antlers, you might find Halm clearing away a fallen tree, plowing snow away from the roads, or helping set up and maintain the various data collectors, remote cameras, and wireless equipment the scientists depend upon. “When I started it was all pretty manual, with strip charts and charts on drums,”…
This May Be the Worst Town in California to Live In
Erick Madrid/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montecito is coming back to life this morning. The 9,000 person town to the east of Santa Barbara has been empty since Tuesday, when mandatory evacuations forced residents out of…
15 Years of Collecting Rhino Semen Is Finally Paying Off
Jan Husar/SOPA Images/Zuma 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. For over 20 years, Thomas Hildebrandt has harboured a dream: to save the northern white rhinoceros, the world’s rarest large mammal. On Monday the scientist received the devastating…