Pruitt Is Gone. His Replacement Continues His Destructive Work.
A hand covered in wet coal ash from the Dan River, which was contaminated after a spill in North CarolinaGerry Broome/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back Obama-era regulations that had protected drinking water from being contaminated with coal ash, the toxic byproduct of…
Let’s Face It: We’ve Overexploited Photos of Cute Polar Bears
Paul Zinken/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change has a new symbol, and it’s not melting ice floes or charismatic megafauna. Last week, researchers at Yale University and the University of Westminster published an…
Safer, Cleaner Nuclear Energy—If We Want It
Imago via ZUMA Press 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. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while—in the process— transforming…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…
Chicago’s Last Waterfall Is About to Disappear
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s hard to chase waterfalls in the city of Chicago. Although there is a smattering of decorative cascades—Stearns Quarry Park, for example, has a water feature made out of recycled sidewalk…
Ozone Levels in Many US National Parks Are Similar to Those in Large Cities
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Even in the awe-inspiring canyons of Yellowstone and mountains of Yosemite, the fresh air may not be so fresh: Concentrations of ozone in many US national parks are similar to levels in America’s largest metropolitan areas, according to a new study in Science Advances by researchers…