Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand Anything About the Paris Climate Accord
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does Donald Trump have any idea what the Paris climate accord really does? Based on the president’s speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it seems unlikely. In his longest remarks on the subject since announcing last June that he would…
A Cave in China Is Filled with Exotic Plants that Shouldn’t Be There—But Researchers May Have Figured Out Why
Yangzi Cave, Guangxi, China. Monro et al. 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. From Plato to Polyphemus, caves have long been literary symbols of the mysterious and the unknown. And in the real world, they often live up…
Why Growing Veggies in the City Isn’t Just a Feel-Good Exercise
Olivier Polet/Zuma 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. Gotham Greens’ boxed lettuces have been popping up on the shelves of high-end grocers in New York and the Upper Midwest since 2009, and with names like “Windy City Crunch,”…
Heckler or Security Threat? To Scott Pruitt, They’re All the Same.
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On New Year’s Eve 2017, Scott Pruitt checked, “Visited nearly 30 states” on his tweeted list of year-end accomplishments. But now his very frequent and very expensive travel around and outside the United States has become a source of controversy as he has used his security needs…
The Green Movement Is Lily White. That’s a Problem.
sanjeri/Getty 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. It’s been 20 years since Esteban González Burchard took a trip to Chicago that changed his life. The asthma researcher had been to the Windy City before, so tourism wasn’t on…
Trump Snuck These Anti-Environment Measures Into His Infrastructure Plan
Ed Lallo/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fact that EPA administrator Scott Pruitt sat several seats to the right of President Trump during his announcement of a $200 billion infrastructure plan on Monday was one clue that it was actually jam-packed with policies taking aim at environmental regulations. For instance, a substantial…