This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s been a fitful few months for the Dakota Access Pipeline. First, a federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers failed to carry out proper environmental reviews of the project before building the oil route…
English teenager Harriet Forster had a lot of free time this spring when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancelation of her university entrance exams. She decided to start scrounging up mobility and air-quality data from around the world with her dad, Piers Forster, a climate scientist at Leeds University. A father-daughter scientific collaboration was born…
Q. Dear Umbra, I know there has to be a link between pesticide manufacturing and racial injustice but I’m having trouble tracking it down. — Something Looks Ethically Unsavory To Him A. Dear SLEUTH, I think your instincts are pretty good! If you were to spin a wheel of environmental woes — possibly the most…
The move toward opening the Pebble Mine has surfaced a rare dispute between Donald Trump Jr. and his father’s administration.
Also this week, how to help a neighbor when it’s hot
It was a gray Tuesday morning in February, a few weeks before the COVID outbreak was declared a global pandemic. The Anacostia River was quiet and serene, except for the sound of raindrops and the low roar of Jim Foster’s boat. Foster, president of the nonprofit Anacostia Watershed Society, was preparing to make his weekly…
The bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act guarantees funding for federal land use efforts. The president claimed credit for Republicans.
Twin emergencies on two coasts this week — Hurricane Isaias and the Apple Fire — offer a preview of life in a warming world and the steady danger of overlapping disasters.
View the video in your browser As you move through a city, you probably notice summer heat can be a lot worse depending on which neighborhood you’re in. This isn’t a coincidence. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Extreme heat is worse in redlined neighborhoods on Aug 4, 2020.
In the two months since George Floyd’s death at the hands of police, Americans have marched, protested, rallied, and spoken out about the need for systemic change. It’s the type of activism that the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, a key figure in the civil rights movement who died last month of pancreatic cancer, described…
