One of the Largest Cities in California Has a Plan to Drastically Lower Its Temperature
Located in a semi-arid region with limited natural freshwater supplies, Long Beach relies on external water reserves and, despite record-breaking rainfalls in January 2017, water use prohibitions are still in effect. In an average year, the Long Beach Water Department (LBWD) obtains 40 percent of its water from imported sources and 53 percent from groundwater—which…
A Bit of Weekend Blogging Nostalgia
Remember this?Kevin Drum Graphics LLC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is Jia Tolentino on the slow death of blogging: Blogging, that much-maligned pastime, is gradually but surely disappearing from the Internet, and so, consequently, is a lot of online freedom and fun. Before I came to The New Yorker,…
Leaked Documents Reveal the Trump Administration’s Plan to Sell off Our Public Lands
This story was originally published by The HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have repeatedly said they oppose selling off federal lands. It was over this very issue that Zinke—a former Montana congressman—resigned as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2016. And in a…
Why Not Invest Your IRA in HoboNickels and PizzaCoin?
iridi/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re ready to swap your smelly old greenbacks for a virtual wad of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum are not the only games in town. CoinMarketCap tracks nearly 1,500 forms of digital currency. Their often baffling names offer little clue as to whether…
Larry Nassar Is Locked Up for Life, But Michigan State’s Trouble Is Just Starting
Dale G.Young/Detroit News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two weeks, as more than 150 women came forward to tell their stories of abuse at the hands of sports physician Larry Nassar, one of the biggest questions has been how his behavior was able to continue for decades. “There…
Republican Candidates Are Now Filming Their Campaign Ads In Swamps
Stovall for Congress/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Say you’re an aspiring Republican politician in the Trump era trying to demonstrate your loyalty to the president and his followers. What do you do? Here’s what you do: You put on a pair of waders and stand waist-deep in murky water…