This 16-Year-Old Founded a “Movement of Unstoppable Youth” to Save the Planet
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Sorry, it’s homeroom,” Jamie Margolin, a 16-year-old climate activist and high school sophomore, tells me when I call for an interview. “Let me get to a quieter spot.” Margolin, who lives in Seattle, is used to juggling homework, debate club, media interviews, writing op-eds,…
California Has a Controversial Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Drivers Aren’t Going to Like It.
tommaso79/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco-Bay Area did a remarkable job of rebounding from the 2008 Recession: The region has since added 640,000 new jobs, and its unemployment rate hovers around three percent. But as you’ve probably heard, the area’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with its population growth,…
The Science About Eating Out That Will Scare You Into Cooking Your Own Dinners
Imgorthand/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Americans are increasingly putting their money where their mouth is—and eating out more than ever before. Back in 1970, Americans only spent 26 percent of all their food expenses at restaurants or cafeterias. In 2014, that number rose to 44 percent. Today, about half…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…
Meet a 63-Year-Old, 7,800-Acre, Living Laboratory
When he’s not picking up antlers, you might find Halm clearing away a fallen tree, plowing snow away from the roads, or helping set up and maintain the various data collectors, remote cameras, and wireless equipment the scientists depend upon. “When I started it was all pretty manual, with strip charts and charts on drums,”…
The Trump Administration Might Let the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal Go Extinct
Omar Vidal/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, environmental groups took the Trump administration to task for failing to protect the vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest (and perhaps cutest) marine mammal, from likely extinction. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses the Trump team of violating federal laws designed to protect the vaquita and other marine mammals. The species has seen…