Some Insects Are Very Social. They Also May Offer Hints for Controlling Disease.
Ants!Jens BÃttner/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Given that she infects ant colonies with deadly pathogens and then studies how they respond, one might say that Nathalie Stroeymeyt, a senior…
They Spent Millions to Protect Polluters. Then They Got Busted by the FBI.
GOP Ohio state Rep. Larry Householder,, who is charged in the $60 million federal probe.John Minchillo, AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A year ago, the Ohio legislature rammed through a law to save four unprofitable nuclear and coal-fired power plants from retirement, while it rolled back…
Three Unexpected Ways Joe Biden Plans to Tackle Climate Change
Joe Biden.Bastiaan Slabbers/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Joe Biden’s climate plan lagged behind the plans introduced by his presidential primary opponents when he unveiled it in the spring of 2019. It was just…
A Bird Named for a Confederate General Sparks Calls for Change
A bird watcher looks through binoculars at sunrise.Bob Wick/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Across the United States, people are pushing for the removal of Confederate officers’ names from buildings, schools,…
Trump Slashed a Major Environmental Rule. That’s Just the Beginning.
Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Wednesday, President Trump achieved a longstanding goal in weakening environmental protection: The administration significantly narrowed the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a law that requires the government to study the impact of federal projects on the…
Global Warming. Inequality. COVID-19. And Al Gore Is…Optimistic?
Omar Marques/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Before he was the guy with the climate change PowerPoint presentation, before he lost the US presidency by a nose (and a Supreme Court decision), Al Gore had…