Trump’s War on the Environment Is a Civil Rights Emergency
Children play basketball in Port Arthur, Tex. neighborhoodDavid Goldman/AP This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people. Black, Latino, and disadvantaged people have…
Americans Spend 90 Percent of Their Lives Indoors. These Photos Will Make You Want to Get Outside.
The title of photographer Lucas Foglia’s third book, Human Nature (Nazraeli Press), lays bare the theme common to all his work—humans and their very complicated relationship with nature. Each project he’s photographed over the past six years explored, with growing depth, the increasingly complicated intersection of nature and us humans. It’s a thinking person’s kind…
2 Million Stunning Images of Earth’s Biodiversity Are Now Available for Free
This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are thought to be about 10 million distinct species of plants and animals on Earth. That number is incomprehensibly large, not least because most species are still undiscovered. But now the Biodiversity Heritage Library, an open-access repository for some of the most stunning…
You Can Be Most Helpful After a Natural Disaster When the World Has Stopped Paying Attention
U.S. Air Force Capt. Christopher Merian/U.S. Navy via AP After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico two months ago, we asked readers what they wanted to know about the crisis. Many of you asked about conditions on the ground, the status of electricity and clean water, and how aid was being allocated. But one of the most frequent questions was…
Scientists Are Desperately Trying to Figure Out How Long We Have Until “Doomsday Glaciers” Melt
The Getz Ice Shelf in West AntarcticaNASA/Jeremy Harbeck This story was originally published by Grist appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South America, two glaciers hold human civilization hostage. Stretching across a frozen plain more than 150 miles long,…
The Turkey Industry Is Very Thankful for Donald Trump
Ron Sachs/CNP/Zuma In keeping with a longstanding pre-Thanksgiving presidential tradition, President Trump on Tuesday spared the lives of two turkeys—Wishbone and Drumstick. “I have been very active in overturning a number of executive actions by my predecessor,” he said. “However, I have been informed by the White House Counsel’s Office that Tater and Tot’s [Obama-era]…