Frequent Heavy Rain Has Made California a Mudslide Hotspot
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This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture the minute hand at about 8 past the hour. That’s the slope of …
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All That Rain Is Driving Up Cases of a Deadly Fungal Disease in California
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week, a long, narrow section of the Earth’s atmosphere funneled trillions of gallons of water …
Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When governments find themselves fighting the threat of coastal erosion, their default response tends to be …
The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way
The reason for the Jones Act’s longevity, says Colin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is that while it tends to benefit only a …
Texas Is Already Running Out of Water
“However, if a system is permanently impaired it is also possible that recovery will not reach former levels,” Montagna said. Studies suggest that systems around Corpus Christi may already be …
The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
With the Supreme Court green-lighting the MVP, it seems to Larkin and others that there’s only one thing left to do. That is, throw their bodies upon the gears, in hopes …
A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames
As Bloomberg reported in May, New York, California, Sweden, and the Netherlands are developing legislation similar to Chile’s extended producer responsibility law that went into effect this year, mandating that …
California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland
“I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would go, ‘OK, so you have a million dollars in hand, and you …
All the Fish We Cannot See
The destination for this yet-untargeted bounty? Livestock feed, says Payne. This exploitation of the mesopelagic required a huge harvesting effort in the southwest Indian Ocean and southern Atlantic, including employing …
The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Perhaps no single Christmas custom is more ubiquitous than putting up the Christmas tree. …