Remember That $20 Million Ocean Cleanup Project? It Isn’t Working.
Michel Porro/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 $20 million effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has hit a bit of a snafu. Organizers for The Ocean Cleanup, which launched the project…
The Worst Anti-Science BS of 2018
Donald Trump has a “natural instinct for science.”Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was a banner year in the war on science, as politicians, media figures, and celebrities used their platforms to promote pseudoscience and interfere with evidence-based policies. Here are five of the most egregious examples. And…
Inside the Bill That Set the “Strongest Clean Energy Requirement in the Nation”
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington, DC is positioning itself on the climate policy fast track. The District of Columbia city council voted unanimously last week to approve an expansive climate bill requiring utility providers to generate 100 percent of their energy supply from renewable sources by…
Meet the Press Devotes Entire Show to Threat of Climate Change
Firefighters watch as the 18,137 acre Holy Fire burns around them for the fourth day in Lake Elsinore, California in the early morning on August 10, 2018. Christian Monterrosa/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a remarkable and unique hour of television, NBC News host Chuck Todd…
Here Are All the Ways Trump Tried to Shut Down Science This Year
Asiseeit/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There were a dizzying series of attacks on science in 2018. President Trump seemingly went out of his way to publicly question and misrepresent accepted science, using his signature all-caps tweeting to make his point: Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS –…
In Natural Disasters, a Disability Can Be a Death Sentence
And for many disabled people, getting out of their homes is only the beginning. Shelters often lack necessary equipment and medications for disabled people who do evacuate, like hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs or ventilators, Ramirez said. The prospect of rebuilding a home that had been built around an individual disability can also be daunting and…