You’ll Probably Never Save as Many Lives as This Guy Who Got the Philippines to Stop Using Lead Paint
Manny CalonzoGoldman Environmental Prize Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While the United States effectively banned lead-based paint in 1978, in many developing countries—even after decades of research showing how lead is linked to learning disabilities, lower IQ, and other health effects in children—the element is still abundantly applied in paint…
Here’s an Adorable Video of a Baby Tree Kangaroo Taking Its First Hops
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here at Mother Jones, we get that Sundays are best spent relaxing, hanging out with friends and family, and avoiding the daily deluge of troubling news before a new work week begins. That’s where this viral video of a baby tree kangaroo comes in. Taronga Zoo,…
The Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution
Dan Clark/Planet Pix/ZUMA 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. A young sperm whale, the largest toothed predator on Earth and an endangered species, washed up on the beach in southeastern Spain in February. Wanting to know…
Scott Pruitt May Have Violated Oklahoma Ethics Rules as a State Senator
Scott PruittCarolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt used a shell company in 2003 to buy a home in Oklahoma from a retiring lobbyist, according to an investigation by the New York Times. At the time, Pruitt was a state senator in Oklahoma. The shell…
Internal Emails Show How EPA Officials Lobby For Their Former Employers
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to implement a controversial policy that would drastically limit the scientific research that the agency uses to write environmental rules. While environmental activists are concerned the change could undermine EPA rules on air pollution and…
There Is an Area of Plastic in the Ocean That’s Three Times the Size of France. This 23-Year-Old Thinks He Can Clean It Up.
Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan SlatThe Ocean Cleanup/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, among the industrial warehouses and abandoned buildings on Alameda Island, just south of Oakland, California, a small team of engineers began the early stages of constructing “System 001.” Its bland name obscures the fact that System 001 is actually a…