A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
Mexico Is Sending Hundreds of Firefighters to Help Battle Blazes in Canada
Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mexico has deployed over 300 of its firefighters and technicians to Ontario during the past two weeks, to help battle forest fires menacing the province.…
We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets
President Donald Trump at a White House “Made in America” showcase in July 2017 Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With California’s latest wildfires claiming a seventh victim Sunday, President Donald Trump has yet to tweet condolences to those affected by these catastrophic and all-too-familiar disasters. Several thousand…
An Army of Deer Ticks Carrying Lyme Disease Is Advancing and Here’s Why It Will Only Get Worse
Mother Jones illustration; nechaev-kon/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before…
California’s Mendocino Complex Fire Is Now the Fifth Largest in State History
A 747 Global Airtanker makes a fire retardant drop in front of advancing flames from a wildfire in Lakeport, Calif., last Thursday. Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By Sunday morning, the fierce Northern California blazes known as the Mendocino Complex fire had devoured 254,000 acres,…
Fire Scientists Are Sure of Only One Thing: This Will Get Worse
Jose Luis Villegas/Sacramento Bee Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Subtract out the conspiracists and the willfully ignorant and the argument marshaled by skeptics against global warming, roughly restated, assumes that scientists vastly overstate the consequences of pumping greenhouse…