Meet the Ebola Doctor Who Trump Viciously Attacked on Twitter
Dr. Craig Spencer speaking at a conference on infectious diseases in 2016.Diana Quintela/Atlantico Press/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November 2014, Dr. Craig Spencer walked out of New York’s Bellevue Hospital cured of Ebola. He was the last American diagnosed with the disease in the US. During the nearly three…
I Asked a Bunch of Scientists if Climate Change Was Affecting the Bacteria in My Gut
Grist/Amelia Bates 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. Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don’t) jokingly blame all kinds of things on it, from flat tires to summer hailstorms. Case of the…
New Study of Bitcoin’s Energy Use Makes You Libertarian Nerds Look Even Worse Than Usual
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/ZUMA 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. Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since Grist first wrote about it six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year, according to a…
A $50,000-a-Night Underwater Hotel Room in the Maldives Shows How Oblivious We Are to Climate Change
Andrey Nekrasov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a tiny nation that will likely be underwater due to sea level rise within the next century, an American luxury hotel chain is constructing an underwater hotel room that…
We’re Getting Way Better at Forecasting Storms, and It’s Helping Humanitarian Groups
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 an era of increasingly extreme hurricanes, floods, and drought, the people in charge of preparing for disasters depend on meteorologists to anticipate where the next catastrophe might strike. Here’s some good…
Yet Another Town Is Dealing With Lead Contamination
Davel5957/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In northwest Indiana, it seems as if no city is safe from lead pollution. According to a report from the Chicago Tribune, the Environmental Protection Agency has found alarmingly high levels of lead in the soil in dozens of yards in Hammond and Whiting, Indiana, neighboring…