America’s Newest Weather Satellite Is a Game-Changer for Forecasting Catastrophic Natural Events
United Launch Alliance Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by WIRED and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 2017 was a grievously good year for cataclysms. Infernos engulfed not just California, which suffered its most destructive wildfire season on record, but the greater American West. A hyperactive…
The Florida Senate Is Holding a Special Weekend Session to Debate Arming Teachers
A law enforcement officer talks with students, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. Wilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Florida Senate is…
How a Former Felon Became a Kitchen Ninja
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of this year’s Oscar-nominated short documentaries takes a look at an ambitious project to give former inmates a second chance and attempt to create the best French eatery in the country. Knife Skills documents the opening of Edwins and explores what it’s like for the…
How Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea Wore the Bastards Down
Joe Mazza/Brave-Lux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Big Angel—patriarch of the De La Cruz clan, “El Jefe” emblazoned on his coffee mug, a man who once “could make the walls crack with his voice”—is dying of cancer. Relegated to a wheelchair, he realizes that “somebody was going to have to…
There’s More to Sharp Images Than Just a Good Lens
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I mentioned this afternoon that my picture of Hopper with the new camera was so sharp it was almost too sharp. In fact, when I first took the picture last Monday I wondered if there was more than just a high-quality lens at work. Maybe…
The Warped Environmentalism of America’s Biggest Industrial Meat Producer
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Justin Whitmore has the unenviable job of trying to make the nation’s biggest industrial meat company look virtuous. The 35-year-old former McKinsey consultant became Tyson Foods’ first sustainability chief in…