A Photographer Reveals How a Shrinking African Landscape Leaves Little Room for Animals to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s new book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson), he explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one another’s way. “There is a very finite amount of space,” Brandt tells Mother Jones. “There isn’t room for both humans and…
A Photographer Placed African Animals Against an Industrial Landscape—And the Result is Mesmerizing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s third book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson) photographs animals as others might photograph people—shooting close, revealing portraits instead of more traditional wildlife images. His newest work in East Africa explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one…
Wine Before Beer? Beer Before Wine? There’s Finally a Scientific Answer
HRAUN/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Have you ever heard the saying, “beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer?” I hadn’t, but apparently it’s popular in Europe. Germany, England, and France all have sayings with a similar sentiment: Drink in the right order or…
Raw Data: Incomes of Wage and Salary Workers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers: Here is a look at the strong growth in wages we are seeing for the middle class and lower-income, per Chairman Hassett’s interview on @AliVelshi. pic.twitter.com/H6qh8r6egg — CEA (@WhiteHouseCEA) March 1, 2019 It goes without…
Environmentalists Didn’t Expect This Would Happen When They Busted Up Dams
Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This post was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dam busting is a grand tradition of American environmentalism. In 1966, when the Sierra Club and allies got Congress to prohibit new dams in the Grand Canyon it…
Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Educators, students and supporters rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during a seven-day teachers strike. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, after a week of protest, the Oakland teachers’ union has announced a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District to end the city’s longest such…