Earth’s Powerful, Climate-Shaping Water Currents Are Weak and Broken and It’s Time to Freak Out
piola666/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The…
The Second “March for Science” Is Happening Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second “March for Science” is happening across the globe on Saturday. Last year’s edition drew out some 1.1 million scientists, students, and other supporters of evidence-based policy making. Organizers are expecting a much smaller turnout today, but events in support of the march are…
Here’s How to Mourn a Bird, a Butterfly, a Bat, or any Endangered Species You Love
Katie Tume AKA Mother Eagle 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. An oversized paper mâché sunflower rose like a pale moon against the dusk of a central Brighton park. Amid the shivering group of 30 people on the chilly…
Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows
P.Lindgren/Wikimedia Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Far from shore, the ocean floor is more than an unbroken swath of sand and mud: It can be blanketed with lush, green carpets of seagrass. These wavy expanses are…
Here’s Why Scott Pruitt Still Has a Job
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt survives the onslaught of accusations of mismanagement and excessive spending with his job still safe, he has his biggest benefactors to thank. The #StandWithScottPruitt campaign has flooded the White House with pleas from Trump donors and conservative and…
These Teens Just Won a Victory Over the Trump Administration in Court
Eighteen of the 21 kids and young adults suing Trump, their lawyers, and supporters pose for a photo outside the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.Amy Thomson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “We the people are ready to leave,” sang a small choir of climate activists…