Puerto Rico May Hold the Answer to Saving the Bees
Manuel Giannoni Guzman Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The quick succession of Hurricanes Irma and Maria knocked out Puerto Rico’s electricity and displaced thousands of people from their homes. The storms also wreaked havoc on much smaller members of the island’s population: Billions of wild and domesticated bees were uprooted…
Scott Pruitt Is Doing Just Fine as a Coal Consultant
Tom Williams, CQ/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Where’s Scott Pruitt now?” is a question I’ve gotten a lot in the six months since the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator resigned under a mountain of investigations into possible ethics violations. If you know anything about Pruitt, the answer will not come as…
Exploding Ants, Rainbow Slugs, and Tiny Seahorses: 11 New Species Discovered This Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Considering there are nearly eight billion people on Earth, and that more and more species are being pushed into extinction by climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution, it may seem like there would be few species left for humans to discover. In fact, there could be up to a…
Six Times the Environment Won in 2018
George Rose/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. By all accounts, 2018 had its share of big environmental bummers. Scientists calmly explained that our current rate of warming will cause geological changes akin to a meteor striking the Earth.…
The EPA’s Latest Move Risks Exposing the Public to More Mercury
Aaron Lavinsky, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Children and pregnant women hear the warnings against eating too much fish because of potential exposure to mercury. But where does that mercury come from? Coal and oil-burning plants are the number one source of mercury in the US, and they leech not just that neurotoxin but arsenic, acid gasses, and…
Power Plant Explosion Casts New Light on New York’s Addiction to Dirty Fuel
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. ASTORIA, NY—The transformer explosion that illuminated the New York City skyline late Thursday night came from one of the state’s dirtiest plants, casting new light on the city’s dependence on antiquated oil-burning power stations and bolstering calls for cleaner electricity. This…