Scientists Are Freaking Out About “Crazy” Temperatures in the Arctic
Fedoseyev Lev/TASS/ZUMA 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. An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change. Although it could…
Congress Just Got a Whole Lot of F’s on Their Environmental Report Card
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Republicans and Democrats have never been further apart on environmental issues. The top leadership in the GOP is comprised entirely of climate change deniers, while Democrats have aligned in opposition to President Trump’s agenda. But a report released today by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) calibrates the distance between…
Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA Because He Thinks It’s God’s Plan
Tom Williams/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt may be at the center of another Trump administration flight scandal over the skyrocketing costs of his first-class flights, but recently he’s been more likely to talk about how deeply his evangelical faith influences his work running the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt comes from…
Trump Clearly Doesn’t Understand Anything About the Paris Climate Accord
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Does Donald Trump have any idea what the Paris climate accord really does? Based on the president’s speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it seems unlikely. In his longest remarks on the subject since announcing last June that he would…
The Trump Administration Just Got Sued Over an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the Ocean
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 22, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration got word of a juvenile, North Atlantic right whale carcass floating off the coast of Virginia. Later identified as whale #3893, the 39-foot, 10-year-old female was towed to shore, where researchers examined her partially-decomposed remains.…
A Cave in China Is Filled with Exotic Plants that Shouldn’t Be There—But Researchers May Have Figured Out Why
Yangzi Cave, Guangxi, China. Monro et al. 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. From Plato to Polyphemus, caves have long been literary symbols of the mysterious and the unknown. And in the real world, they often live up…