House Democrats Just Told the Pentagon to Redo Its Climate Change Report
A hospital shit evacuates Naval Station Norfolk in preparation for Hurricane Florence.Jennifer Hunt/US Navy via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a landmark report that identified the 79 American military installations most vulnerable to the “effects of a changing climate.” The 22-page filing frankly acknowledged the…
A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Is Running Articles Dismissing Climate Change and Evolution
But Inference, which bills itself as a “quarterly review of the sciences,” was offering me a chance to write about a topic of my own choosing (subject to their approval). They also promised to pay me “appropriately” for my work, and the timing would have been great for book promotion. So I replied. While I…
Berkeley Has No More Forks to Give
bbstudio_aad/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It might be a good time to invest in a coffee thermos, at least if you live in Berkeley, California: Its city council unanimously passed an ordinance on January 22 to limit restaurants and food vendors from using single-use foodware like plastic-lined paper cups and…
If You Thought the Polar Vortex Was Bad, What’s Happening Now Is Genuinely Shocking
Temperatures in Chicago are expected to plunge 20 degrees below zero.chrip0/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A deadly cold snap is hitting the Midwest, plunging roughly 200 million people into one of the most frigid weeks on record. Parts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois will see temperatures plunge up…
Here’s an Especially Terrifying New Danger from the Rise in Wildfires
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by YaleEnvironment360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early in the evening of August 12, 2017, heat and smoke from an intense wildfire burning in the forests of British Columbia began mushrooming skyward, sucking up ash, blazing wood and vegetation,…
Bees Are Facing Yet Another Existential Threat
Honeybees pollinate more than $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and vegetables a year, largely in California, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news…