Scientists Just Discovered Billions of Previously Undetected Microorganisms. Right. Beneath. Us.
Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Earth is far more alive than previously thought, according to “deep life” studies that reveal a rich ecosystem beneath our feet that is almost twice…
There May Be a ‘Glimmer of Hope’ for the Great Barrier Reef
Mark Kolbe/Getty Images for Tourism Queensland Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Great Barrier Reef fared better during an oceanic heat wave last year than during sizzling weather a year earlier that caused hundreds of miles…
Getting Interior to Respond to Your FOIA Requests Just Got a Lot Harder
Shawn Thew—Pool/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In his latest attempt to make the Interior Department’s activities less transparent, Ryan Zinke shifted responsibility for handling public records requests from a career employee to a political appointee with a long history working for conservative megadonors Charles and David Koch. The order, signed…
California’s Battle Against Climate Change Is Going Up in Smoke
Smoke rises from a burned out grove of trees at the Blue Cut wildfire in Wrightwood, California on August 17, 2016.Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just a few months ago, climate activists in California were celebrating an impressive victory: New data showed that the state had brought…
This Year’s UN Climate Talks—Brought to You by Coal?
Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. KATOWICE, POLAND—There’s a specter hanging over the COP24 climate talks, that happened last week in the small city of Katowice, Poland. It’s not the goalpost-moving report that the…
This Cross-Border Town Has Faced Toxic Pollution for Years. Now Its Residents Are Fighting Back.
Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last September, Paloma Aguirre spent the day collecting bits of trash and tires in the Tijuana River Valley, which straddles the US-Mexico border south of San…