New Climate Change Predictions: More Accurate, Less Terrible
Frank Ramspott/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If one is the loneliest number, two is the most terrifying. Humanity must not pass a rise of 2 degrees Celsius in global temperature from pre-industrial levels, so says…
A Volcano Scientist Is Running for Congress in California
pxhidalgo/iStock/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the first midterm elections of the Trump era creep closer, scientists across the country are emerging from their labs to run for Congress. The president’s treatment of science—from proposed funding cuts to climate change denial—is one of the driving forces pushing researchers into…
Right-Wing Think Tank Protected “Violent” Exec Who Allegedly Stalked a Colleague
“They were very responsive to donors, but very hands off in terms of its employees,” a former female staffer, who said she filed complaints about Koprowski’s abusive tirades, told HuffPost. “There wasn’t a lot of responsiveness if you had a complaint about another employee. It was very much, ‘you can deal with it yourself.’” “There’s…
Can This Colorado City Really Afford 100-Percent Clean Energy?
Historic South Pueblomilehightraveler/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first things you see driving down from the Rocky Mountains into Pueblo, Colorado, are smoke stacks. Three big ones sprout from the Comanche coal plant at…
Scientists Are Getting Way Better at Forecasting. It Could Change How We Deal With Droughts.
Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a rainstorm slammed California’s Russian River watershed in December 2012, water rushed into Lake Mendocino, a reservoir north of San Francisco. The cause? An atmospheric…
This Town Is So Toxic, They Want It Wiped Off the Map
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Annetta Coffman can name 35 people in her neighborhood who have recently died from cancer—and that includes her own family. Coffman’s mother died of cancer in 2007, and three years ago, her 18-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. “Every single neighbor I’ve had has died of cancer,” Coffman told…