Do Forests Grow Better With Our Help or Without?
Bournemouth, UK – Trees!Martin Keene/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a post-doc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental Research…
Tackling Climate Change Seemed Expensive. Then COVID Happened.
Solar panels in Hainan, Qinghai, China.TPG/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Climate deniers and opponents of aggressive climate action have long argued that governments can’t afford…
No, Biden Won’t Ban Fracking
C-Span/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In the middle of a heated exchange on climate change during the final presidential debate, President Donald Trump went on the attack: He repeated his go-to claim that Joe Biden plans to ban fracking, a drilling…
Deadly Bacteria in Coastal Waters Causes a Flesh-Eating Disease. Climate Change Is Making it Worse.
Illustration by Joanna Eberts For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations, and McClatchy Newspapers. In October 2018, three weeks after Hurricane Florence pummelled swaths of North Carolina, Eddie Clinton was…
Science and Democracy Actually Have Something Very Important in Common
President Donald J. Trump.Chris Kleponis/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Donald Trump has said, several times in the week up to and including…
In Chile, 25 Rare Chinchillas Are Sitting on Top of 3.5 Million Ounces of Gold
One of 25 endangered short-tailed chinchillas being relocated to protect them from a mining project.Luis Ortega For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The short-haired chinchilla, a high-altitude South…