“Holy Shit. This is Dangerous:” Nixon, a Soviet Bomb Test, and a Top-Secret Climate Study
dzika_mrowka/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 23, 1971, the Soviet Union set off three Hiroshima-scale nuclear blasts deep underground in a remote region some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, ripping a massive crater in the…
House Republicans on Scott Pruitt: We’re With Him
Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the reasons Scott Pruitt has probably survived this long at the Environmental Protection Agency is that he still has key Republican support in Congress. It was clear Thursday that House Republicans were still willing to defend him, when Pruitt appeared before…
The World’s Coolest Rainbow Appeared Over California This Week
M. Jimenez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A flame-like streak of colorful clouds appeared in the sky over Pinnacles National Park in central California on Tuesday. A man running in the park spotted the “fire rainbow” and sent pictures to the Bay Area division of the National Weather Service, which tweeted the eye-catching…
Scott Pruitt Takes All the Credit and None of the Blame for His Scandal-Filled Time at the EPA
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt made a strong assertion of his ultimate responsibility for what goes on at the EPA when he made his opening statement to the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, in a hearing that was dominated by questions about his…
Climate Change Will Make Thousands of Islands Uninhabitable. A New Study Says It’ll Happen Sooner Than We Thought.
A thin strip of coral atolls separates the ocean from the lagoon in Majuro, Marshall Islands.Nicole Evatt/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Christmas Eve 2008, the president of the Marshall Islands declared a state of emergency after seawater flooded the country’s biggest urban areas, displaced hundreds of islanders, destroyed dozens…
This Might Be Scott Pruitt’s Most Destructive Move Yet
AP Photo/Susan Walsh Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adopting a strategy successfully employed by the tobacco industry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a sweeping new regulation that would restrict the kinds of scientific studies the agency can use in developing its regulations. The EPA administrator, who has come under fire from both…