Thinking About Investing in Bitcoin? Take a Look at How It’s Ruining the Planet in Real Time.
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Let me freak you out for a second. You know what bitcoinis, right? I mean, no, but quickly, it’s a “cryptocurrency” that’s basically secret computer money. One bitcoin, which doesn’t actually have a real, physical form, is worth at this moment upward…
Toxic Ash from California’s Record Wildfires Is Clogging Drinking Water Supplies Across the State
Beth J. Harpaz/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. The Fourmile Canyon Fire, sparked by a backyard burn west of Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, caused $220 million in damage and destroyed 168 homes. It…
Republican PR Firm Ends Controversial Contract With EPA
Simon Edelman/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican PR firm that was awarded a $120,000 EPA contract for media monitoring has pulled out of the deal, days after Mother Jones first revealed the controversial arrangement. The no-bid contract drew widespread scrutiny in recent days, in part because the for-profit firm, called…
Donald Trump Has Decided Global Warming Is No Longer a Threat to National Security
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a striking departure from the previous administration’s emphasis on the challenges posed by global warming, President Donald Trump’s first national security strategy does not list climate change as a threat to American interests. “With the strategy I am announcing today, we are declaring that…
Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…
Trump’s Message to Tribes: Let Them Eat Yellowcake
Rick Bowmer/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. Uranium, it’s now part of Navajo DNA. With over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, people living near these mines are exposed daily…