The Careless Display of Ill-Gotten Human Remains
A 1794 etching of Charles Byrne and three “normal” men. John Kay/Wellcome Library This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the Spring of 1782, a 7-foot-7-inch man known as the Irish Giant came to London, advertising himself in the newspapers as a “modern colossus” and “the greatest…
Republican Lawmakers to Oil CEOs: Stop Apologizing and Keep the Fossil Fuels Coming
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, attends a House Energy and Commerce Committee markup in 2021. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Executives from six major oil and gas companies testified during a congressional hearing this past week as gasoline prices neared record…
What Can Indigenous Worldviews Bring to Space Exploration? As It Turns Out, a Lot.
Future Publishing / Contributor/Getty This story was originally published by Undark and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk partnership. In his 1962 Moon speech, then-President John F. Kennedy Jr. declared that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Speaking from a football stadium at Rice University, Kennedy…
“Now or Never” to Avert Climate Disaster, UN Panel Says
HRAUN/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world can still hope to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown but only through a “now or never” dash to a low-carbon economy and society, scientists have said in what is in effect a final…
UN Seabed-Mining Watchdog Doing Business “Behind Closed Doors”
A deep sea mining ship docked in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Charles M. Vella/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The UN-affiliated organization that oversees deep-sea mining, a controversial new industry, has been accused of failings of transparency after an independent body responsible for reporting on…
SEC Wants Public Companies to Disclose Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SEC chair Gary Gensler.Evelyn Hockstein/CNP via ZUMA Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US’s top financial watchdog proposed on Monday that publicly traded companies report information on their greenhouse-gas emissions, and even those of their suppliers and consumers, in one of the Biden administration’s most…