New Study: Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out
danny4stockphoto/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With its year-round sunshine and vast tracts of fertile land, California is one of the jewels of US food production, providing a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts. As the climate warms, can we continue to take this…
These Companies Created a Lead Paint Crisis—and Refuse to Clean It Up
Selman Design Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1998, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, a young associate at the Motley Rice law firm, was wrapping up her work on the groundbreaking $246 billion national tobacco settlement when a new case landed on her desk. The state of Rhode Island—which had a disproportionate number…
Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pope Francis sparked a media frenzy in 2015 with the release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si. One of the highest forms of official Catholic Church teaching, the…
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 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…
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…