California Wants All Its Electricity Carbon-Free. How’s That Possible?
VCG/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. If you want to get electricity generated by fossil fuels in California you’re soon going to be out of luck. A bill that just made it through the legislature…
American Cities Lose 36 Million Trees a Year. But There’s a Radical New Plan to Save Them.
Elaine Thompson/AP 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. The evidence is in: Urban trees improve air and water quality, reduce energy costs, and improve human health, even as they offer the benefit of storing carbon. And in…
A Year After an Environmental Disaster in Texas, Chemical Company Faces a Reckoning
Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas last August with 130 mph winds and dumped more than 50 inches of rain across the region. In the aftermath of the second-costliest storm in recent American history, a Category 4 nightmare that left…
Scientists Discover Giant Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off Atlantic Coast
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the research vessel Atlantis made its way out to sea from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, last week, expedition chief scientist Erik Cordes predicted the team would discover something no one has ever seen before. It didn’t take long. Some 160 miles off the…
Bear Cub Killers in Alaska Have an Ally in Donald Trump
Education Images/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The brutal scene unfolded in 30-second snapshots, captured in discrete moments by a motion-activated camera. Two hunters skied toward a den on Esther Island in southern Alaska and found a sow and its two newborn bear cubs. After killing all three with rifles, the hunters…
Federal Election Commission Employees Are Worried They May Have Been Exposed to Asbestos
Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Several Federal Election Commission employees are concerned they may have been unwittingly exposed to asbestos—a known carcinogen and lung irritant—while working at the…