Here’s How Climate Change Is Making It Easier to Hit Home Runs
Darren Lee/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Even America’s favorite pastime is not immune from climate change. A new study from researchers at Dartmouth College says that a warming atmosphere could be causing more home runs in professional baseball. The research, published last week in the Bulletin of…
Sorry California, Melting Snowpacks to Unleash More Epic Floods
A CalTrans pickup truck driving through flooding on Highway 43 in the Central Valley during a winter storm in Tulare County near Allensworth, California.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Is this the “Big One”? Sometime in January, as a string of “atmospheric rivers” from deep in the South Pacific pummeled California, that query began hitting my phone in…
Insect Farming Is Booming—But Is It Cruel?
Ryan McFadden/The Reading Eagle/AP This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use the Earth’s magnetic field…
Arizona Utility Just Won’t Let This Historic Black Community Be
The stacks of the Salt River Project generating station near Randolph, Arizona. Caitlin O’Hara/Guardian This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A handful of weary residents gathered at the windowless Randolph church to mull over the latest effort by an electric utility to expand its power station—a…
Team Biden Just Offered an Italy-Sized Area of the Gulf of Mexico to Big Oil
The sale of lease 259 could lead to the extraction of more than 1 billion barrels of oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of gas over 50 years.Guardian Graphic This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An enormous swathe of the Gulf of Mexico, spanning an area the…
How the FBI Used “Cop City” Protests to Snoop on Activists in Chicago
Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, a “Chicago Against Cop City” Twitter account was created and began sharing information about a campaign unfolding some 700 miles away. Its first tweet, posted…