In Texas, a Slow, Grinding, Frustrating Recovery 3 Months After Harvey
A man stands in his still damaged home the week before ThanksgivingDavid J. Phillip/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Rockport, Texas, bringing four feet of rain to Houston and the surrounding area, the recovery process for those who live…
Germany’s War on Coal Is Over. Coal Lost.
This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s a sunny October day on the outskirts of the west German town of Bottrop. A quiet, two-lane road leads me through farm pasture to a cluster of anonymous, low-lying buildings set among the trees. The highway hums in the distance. Looming…
A New Study Says That Rising Seas Could Destroy the East Coast
Mark Lennihan/AP 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. Large tracts of America’s east coast heritage are at risk from being wiped out by sea level rise, with the rising oceans set to threaten more than 13,000…
Remember the Nice Things We Don’t Have Anymore. There Will Be One In the Sky Tonight.
When the perigee occurs at the same time as a full moon, we get a “perigee syzygy”—colloquially known as a supermoon. When this happens, the moon appears up to 15 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than it usually does. The last supermooon to hit the night skies was over a year ago, and it was…
This Map Shows Exactly How Many Republicans in Your District Don’t Believe in Global Warming
Nastco/Getty Republicans have a long history of denying climate science, but a new study shows that a plurality of Republican voters in all 50 states believe that global warming is occurring—but they are not convinced that human beings have anything to do with it. Environmental and political science researchers from University of California- Santa Barbara,…
After Insulting Native Americans, Trump Goes After Their Sacred Land
Trump’s disparagement of Native Americans doesn’t end with his rhetoric. A day after Trump called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “Pocahontas” at an event honoring Navajo code talkers during World War II, the Salt Lake Tribune reports that the president will visit Salt Lake City, Utah, next Monday to announce that he’s shrinking national monuments of huge…