Why Energy Researchers Are Interested in a Tiny Wood-Eating Pest You’ve Never Heard Of
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Say hello to the gribbles. With their translucent bodies and circular black eyes, these minute marine crustaceans are like sheet ghosts—only crunchier—who burrow through pieces of wood gliding around the…
Some US Cities Are Much Better for Public Transit Than You Might Think. Others, Not So Much.
Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a new rail or bus line gets built in the United States, its mere opening is often cause for celebration among transit advocates.…
The Trump Administration’s Climate Report Left Out Reproductive Rights. Here’s What It Missed.
Angel Valentin/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. The big question of climate change is no longer why it’s happening (humans have a wild fossil-fuel-burning habit) nor when it’s going to happen (it is happening). These…
19 of 20 World Leaders Just Pledged to Fight Climate Change. Trump Was the Lone Holdout.
G20 leaders at the meeting in Argentina.Ralf Hirschberger/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is telling that on two of the most contentious topics at the Buenos Aires Group of 20 meeting, the United States eventually joined 19 other world leaders on trade, but when it comes to…
The Smoke’s Gone, But Hearts and Lungs Still May Be in Danger Months After Wildfires
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Three days after the Camp Fire erupted, incinerating the Northern California town of Paradise and killing 85 people, Katrina Sawa found herself struggling to breathe. But Sawa wasn’t…
Rep. Raúl Grijalva Is Going to Make Ryan Zinke’s Life Hell in the Next Congress
Chip Somodevilla/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. Less than a week before the midterm elections, US House Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), released a report detailing how the US House Committee on Natural Resources, on which…