45 Years After Nixon Signed It Into Law, the War on the Endangered Species Act Continues
The ocelot is an endangered, wild cat native to North America.Leonardo Prest Mercon Ro/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forty-five years ago, on December 28th, 1973, President Richard Nixon, a Republican, signed a piece of monumental environmental legislation, the Endangered Species Act, into law. At the time, Nixon issued a…
Want Clean Air? Let’s Talk Climate Change.
cyano66/Getty 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. For years, air quality and climate change have been like star-crossed lovers—inextricably linked, but never quite finding their way to each other in environmental policy and dialogue. Well in 2018, the…
What It’s Like to Be a High School Senior and Lose Everything in the Worst Fire in California History
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early on a recent Thursday morning, in the middle of a still-dark mall in Chico, California, a handful of high school students sat in a converted LensCrafters and worked on assignments for the end of the semester. They came from the nearby town of Paradise,…
Light Pollution Has Made Stargazing Impossible in Most Places—But Not in National Parks
Moment via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a crisp September night, the rocky coastline around Sand Beach in Acadia National Park feels like the edge of the world. A rapt audience is gathered in…
We Need to Talk About Palm Oil
Last month, palm oil and its impacts became the story of the hour when the U.K. banned a stirring ad about the commodity from TV broadcast. The ad, which featured an animated orphaned orangutan and was released by British grocery store Iceland, was deemed too political for television. The ban triggered a flurry of interest…
“There’s Nothing Left of This Town.” Paradise, California, May Never Come Back From the Ashes
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On an overcast afternoon, Phil Hughes pulls his truck into the driveway of what was once his home in Paradise, California, and starts sifting through the rubble. He notes where his couch used to be, the bedroom where his 10-month-old son would sleep, the kitchen,…