Suburbs Aren’t Only Conformist, White-Bread Clichés. They’ve Also Been Radical, Green, and Visionary.
Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty The typical suburb as it is stereotyped in the popular imagination is white, wealthy, and conformist. The Monkees’ 1967 song “Pleasant Valley Sunday” captured the cliché by describing a place with “rows of houses that are all the same and no one seems to care,” where there’s a TV in…
NOAA Is Looking for Beaches to Hold 70 Rotting Whale Caracasses. Any Volunteers?
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Local organizations have struggled to dispose of 70 dead gray whales that have washed up along America’s West Coast. Now, a federal agency is turning to private property owners for help. The tragic die-off is the highest in 20 years. Scientists believe most…
Climate Change Deniers Aren’t Getting Very Far With America’s Judges
Ronen Tivony/SOPA/LightRocket/Getty This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In September 2017, San Francisco experienced its hottest day on record, with temperatures reaching a searing 106 degrees. Weeks later, the city joined Oakland to announce it would sue five major fossil fuel firms—BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips—for the costs…
A Scientist Took Climate Change Deniers to Court and Wrested an Apology From Them
Scientist Michael Mann attends the New York screening of the HBO documentary, “How To Let Go Of The World And All The Things Climate Can’t Change” in New York City.Slaven Vlasic/Getty/HBO This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued…
HuffPost Just Published a Bombshell Story About the EPA
The revelation is not surprising from an administration that’s attempting to eliminate or delay, by The New York Times’ estimate, at least 83 environmental regulations, particularly rules to curb climate pollution. The EPA is expected to announce a proposal next week to replace Obama-era power plants rules with a regulation that would, by the agency’s…
There’s So Much Plastic in the Environment That Bees Are Making Nests Out of It
Sean Gallup/Getty This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, scientists in South America were studying the impact agricultural practices have on the surrounding ecosystems, and specifically how natural areas and fields are pollinated as a result of their proximity to one another. In the midst…