The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…
This Video Perfectly Captures How the US Failed to Combat Climate Change
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a week of near-nonstop, dire climate news, Vox published a 12-minute video today that painfully illustrates how repeatedly the US failed to make an effective stand against global warming. Beginning, fittingly, with Al Gore—”I’ve been trying to tell this story for 30 years”—the video traces the history of broken…
Florida Has It All: Hurricanes, Toxic Algae, and Stifling Heat
(Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. No one really knew what would happen when Hurricane Michael hit Florida’s red tide. The toxic algae bloom has plagued Florida’s Gulf Coast this year, killing fish,…
This Amazing True-Crime Story Involves Bees, Thieves, and Almonds
Honeybees return to a hive at an apiary in California’s Central Valley. Bees have become big business in California, as they are an essential ingredient in the state’s yearly almond harvest.Paul Kuroda for Reveal Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Reveal. It appears here as part of…
The Coal Industry Could Get a Boost if This Nominee Becomes a Top Industry Regulator
Mark Lyons/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In January, the independent regulatory body that oversees the national electrical grid unanimously rejected a proposal from the Energy Department to subsidize struggling coal and nuclear power plants. Now, thanks to the retirement this summer of one of the regulatory commissioners most opposed to…
Two Weeks After Florence, We Still Don’t Know How Toxic Carolina Waterways Are
A drone video capturing coal ash streaming out of a dump and flowing toward the Cape Fear RiverNorth Carolina Department of Environmental Quality/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As soon as it was safe to send a team out, Donna Lisenby, a global advocacy manager with Waterkeeper Alliance who is…