Jeff Sessions Named as Potential Witness in Alabama Corruption Trial
Michael Candelori / Pacific Press/Sipa USA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday was named as a potential witness in the federal corruption trial of an Alabama coal executive and two politically connected attorneys in that state, according to several Alabama news reports. The case—which is…
These 4 GOP Senators Are Shocked that the National Science Foundation Encourages Science Education
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four Republican senators described the National Science Foundation as a political rather than scientific organization because of its study of climate change and have called for an investigation into the group by the agency’s inspector general’s office. In a scathing letter to the…
NOAA’s Research Just Shifted from Climate Change to “Empowering the Economy” and “National Security”
This satellite image was taken on the first day of astronomical summer from the NOAA’s GOES East satellite. It captures a storm moving across the central United States.NOAA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the country’s major federal science agencies seems to have been forced to abandon climate change research…
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It
Grist / Sarah Myhre 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. In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems. Looking young and serious, with a long…
A Big Drilling Company Was Ready to Set up a Mine in This Arizona Town. Then an Endangered Owl Showed Up.
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 October, two field researchers were surveying waterways in southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, when one of them glanced into a tree and said, “Uh-oh.” They saw a Mexican spotted owl,…
The White House Tried to Suppress a Bombshell Study Because They Were Afraid of the PR
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Juan Torres Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater…