Here’s What a Civilian Climate Corps Might Look Like
New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps.Uncredited/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a…
Leaked Calls Reveal ALEC’s Secret Plan to Thwart Biden on Climate
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Republican efforts to stall President Joe Biden’s climate agenda are slowly beginning to take shape. In March, a coalition of 12 Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging Biden’s executive order creating a working group to establish a metric for the “social…
This Commercial Fishing Technique Is a Climate Catastrophe
Bottom trawling moves the carbon-rich sediment on the ocean floor, releasing far more carbon than previously thought, a new study has found. Photo by skagman / Wikimedia Commons Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was…
Ocean Warming Is Making Equatorial Waters Uninhabitable
A school of parrotfish near Sipadan Island in Malaysia.Andre Seale/ VW Pics/ ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Global heating has…
“Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”
A well and pump jack in Los Angeles County.(Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the…
Narwhal Tusks Have a Tale to Tell, and Not a Good One
A Male Narwhal swims in the ocean. April 12, 1999.Dave Fleetham/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers have long debated what the…