As Zinke Spends Tax Dollars on Private Jets, National Parks Are Jacking Up Entrance Fees
The National Park Service has a funding problem. It currently faces a $12 billion maintenance backlog that will only be exacerbated in the coming years by a combination of record attendance and the likelihood of federal budget cuts. So on Wednesday, NPS unveiled its latest effort to fill that hole—higher entrance fees at 17 of…
Bigger, More Devastating Floods Are Coming for Our Cities
A car drives through a flooded downtown Miami street. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP This story was originally published by Newsweek and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Five years ago, Superstorm Sandy raged against New York City, flooding subway stations, causing widespread blackouts and killing 43 people. And now, a new paper published today in the journal Proceedings…
Sometimes All It Takes Is One Horrible Photo to Summarize a Catastrophe. This is Puerto Rico’s.
This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Friday, former Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro García Padilla tweeted a photo from inside a hospital, in which scrubbed-up doctors leaned over an operating table performing surgery lit only by a flashlight. “This is what POTUS calls a 10!” García Padilla…