10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Plastics Use in 2019
vovashevchuk/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Plastic has become perhaps the most demonized material of the last 12 months, as the scale of pollution in the oceans becomes increasingly apparent. With dire predictions that if nothing is done there…
It’s Time to Start Eating Roadkill
Jessica Matthews/The Washington Post via Getty Images 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. My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains…
Overflowing Port-a-Potties and Trash—This Is What National Parks Are Like During a Government Shutdown
Large groups continue to pour into Joshua Tree National Park despite the government shutdown.Nick Kirkpatrick/Washington Post/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the government shutdown began on December 22, the nation’s 417 parks, battlefields, and monuments have become unsupervised playgrounds—open to the public with few, if any, staffers to rein…
Ryan Zinke’s Real Legacy Is Rolling Back Environmental Protections and Cozying Up to Big Oil
In other words, the grand pivot never arrived. Theodore Roosevelt IV, a great-grandson of the late president who has blasted the interior secretary for invoking his ancestor, said Zinke’s “bad angels won out.” “He was marching lockstep with what the president wanted him to do,” Roosevelt said. “It’s unfortunate.” Zinke “disrespected Interior’s stewardship mission &…
Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Seem to Want to Punish Law-Breaking Polluters
VanderWolf-Images/Getty 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. Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is more likely to give polluters a pass when they violate laws intended to keep the air healthy and…
What a Stock Market Crash Could Mean for the Climate
Richard Drew/Associated Press 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. Let’s talk about the stock market. Pretty terrifying, huh? The big Christmas Eve dip plunged the US markets into “bear” territory—with declines of over 20 percent in the…