We’re Surrounded by Way More Chemicals Than We Thought, and These Doctors Say...
A team of doctors, researchers, and clinicians from across the globe have teamed up to send a loud message to policymakers: More must be done to protect people from the toxic chemicals that endanger...
View ArticleBen Carson Just Showed the Other GOP Candidates How to Talk About Clean Energy
When asked at a Friday appearance in Iowa if he’d support 50 percent clean energy in the United States by 2030, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson replied, “I want more than 50 percent.” The 50...
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Dear Nevada, #&$% You. Sincerely, San Francisco.
The Shockingly Effective, Surprisingly Cheap Way to End Homelessness For years, the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada’s primary state mental facility, gave discharged patients a bus...
View ArticleNew Dietary Guidelines Won’t Include Sustainability
When the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines are released later this year, they’re sure to make waves in the nation’s food economy. Updated every five years, the rules—the government’s official line on what...
View ArticleDrunken Vegetarians Are Sometimes Secret Meat Eaters
A lot of people do things they regret when they are drunk. Maybe it’s getting tanked and then incoherently divulging secret feelings for a colleague. Perhaps it’s the slurred, eyes-shut karaoke...
View ArticleThe California Wildfires Have Already Claimed 31 Lives and Displaced 150,000...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp Fire in northern California has become the most destructive wildfire in the...
View ArticleClimate Crisis Is Destroying Oregon’s Conifer Forests
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, in a...
View ArticleThe Troubling Downside of Those Much-Needed California Rains
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Deep underneath the sodden soils and the berms of snow that now coat California,...
View ArticleThe Last Government Shutdown Was a Disaster for Fragile National Parks
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By the time superintendent David Smith decided to close Joshua Tree national park...
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These Scientists Are Racing to Improve Forecasts of Deadly Atmospheric River...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The storm raged over California for more than five days. As the powerful...
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