Looking Back on Ryan Zinke’s Reign Over 500 Million Acres of Public Land
William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is departing Jan. 2 amid multiple ethics investigations, leaves a legacy of widespread attacks on science. Zinke was in charge of balancing protection of national parks, endangered species, waterways and other resources with public uses on 500 million…
Report: The GOP Economic Outlook for Arctic Wilderness Drilling Is a “Pipe Dream”
The report, published Wednesday by conservation nonprofit The Wilderness Society, comes as the Trump administration weighs a proposal to allow seismic surveys in the refuge. The surveys would be a key first step in the administration’s push to approve drilling leases as early as 2019. Late last year, GOP lawmakers passed a wildly unpopular tax…
These 13 Words Defined Our Overheating Planet in 2018
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. Every December, dictionary editors hunt through all the words in our growing lexicon to pluck out the ones that best capture the spirit of the fading year. The top choices from 2017…
Scientists Are Fighting Climate Change by Making Their Own Snow
Godong/UIG/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Winter descended early on Colorado this year, bringing snow to the state’s tallest peaks days after Labor Day. But dry conditions continue to haunt the state’s ranchers: Last winter, the San Juan Mountains received just 50 percent of their normal snowpack. By the time summer…
Climate Change Has Made New York’s Rat Crisis Much Worse
Katie Dobies/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. The discarded slices of pizza that litter New York’s streets have long fuelled its sizeable population of rats, but now the city’s growing swarm has a new reason to…
How to Deal with Your Climate Change-Denying Relatives Over the Holidays
Zukovic/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “Birds of a feather flock together,” so I am sure that nearly all of those reading this article accept the main findings of climate science.…