This Is How One Family Tries to Makes Sense of Losing Its Colorado River Water
What was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona.John Locher/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The furrows in a…
How Is This 10-Year-Old Fighting Climate Change? First, by Ditching School.
She started a litter-picking campaign, sharing photos and videos on social media through Lilly’s Plastic Pickup. She’s since been invited to international environment conferences, and is now a youth ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an anti-plastic alliance based in California, and HOW Global, a global development NGO. “I’ve never stopped picking up plastic,” she…
No Deal in Sight as Fuel Standard Talks Between EPA and California Stall Out
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 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. The Golden State has long set the gold standards for fuel efficiency and automobile emissions. Thanks to the Clean Air Act, California is able to set stricter fuel…
Trump Is Considering a Fervent Climate Denier to Lead a White House Panel Assessing Climate Change Risk
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prominent climate denier William Happer will reportedly head up the White House’s latest effort to cast doubt on the threat of climate change. According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is assembling a panel to assess climate change impacts on national security in a possible effort…
Climate Change Isn’t Just Frying the Planet—It’s Fraying Our Nerves
StphaneLemire/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last year, Rebecca, a 35-year-old woman living in Washington, DC, had been losing sleep over the seemingly endless flow of apocalyptic environmental news. She fretted about the Trump administration’s loosening of emissions regulations and the United Nations’ dire predictions about climate change.…
A Scientist Who Resisted Trump Administration Censorship of Climate Report Just Lost Her Job
Climate scientist Maria Caffrey is out of a job starting on February 15.Elizabeth Shogren/Reveal Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For several years, climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas…