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 …
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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. …
Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat
Cookbook authors have a few options. They could write a regionally specific cookbook or a mass-market one starring ingredients that grow sustainably in lots of places (as One did). Or …
Millions of EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms
Extending the useful life of EV batteries mitigates the impact of manufacturing them, said Maria Chavez, energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “The whole point of trying to …
California’s Giant Sequoias Are in Big Trouble
According to Blom, whose group favors thinning dense stands of young trees and reducing accumulations of vegetation and woody debris from the forest floor through prescribed burns or mechanical methods, …
Scientists Have Been Freezing Corals for Decades. Now They’re Learning How to Wake Them Up
This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arah Narida leans over a microscope to gaze into a plastic petri dish containing a hood …
Bird Flu Reaches the Antarctic for the First Time
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Avian flu has reached the Antarctic, raising concerns for isolated populations of penguins and seals …