Protecting Science from Government Intimidation
In an era where people can easily publish ideas and find an audience online, how much damage can a travel and immigration policy actually do to the integrity of science and industry? Lots.
How Climate Change Is Drying up the Western US
The West has always been dry, requiring complicated mechanisms to deliver water for residents (and Big Agriculture). But why is it even drier now, and what's at risk?
California’s Costly, Energy-Islanding Regulation: Why Big Oil Wants to Keep It
Is keeping an outdated regulation solely to make sure oil companies can extract maximum profits from consumers a good idea?
3 Ways Scientists Can Help Hold Major Polluters Accountable Under the Trump Administration
The impacts of climate change have been on full display this Danger Season, from record-breaking heatwaves to devastating wildfires, making evident the urgent need for accountability for the harms caused by supercharged extreme events and long-term changes. These harms have been inescapable across the western US, particularly when it comes to water. As fossil-fueled climate
Five Laws the Trump Administration’s Offshore Wind Buyouts May Have Broken
Deals to buy wind developers out of their leases are a grand pay-to-delay scheme aimed at taking offshore areas out of consideration for wind turbine placement for the foreseeable future, or forever.
As Data Centers Drive Boom in Fossil Power Generation, EPA is Slashing Pollution Standards to Clear their Path
Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has focused its energies on examining and expanding all the things it cannot do for the people of the United States. The standards it cannot set, the deadlines it cannot hold, the public it cannot consult, the experts it cannot employ, the grants it
Talk on Data Center Reform Is Cheap. Our Electricity Bills Are Not.
The list of folks who claim to care about protecting consumers from paying for costs caused by data centers is lengthy. The time has come to call their bluffs.
Wheels Up! Grass, Birds, and Good Food Take Off at Rafter W Ranch
Lance Wheeler may have grown up in a Los Angeles suburb, but he always knew he wanted to be a cowboy. It was in his blood. His family raised cattle in Texas from before the Civil War until the...
Surveying Bobolinks to prevent future mortality
Written by Hailey Faurot, Student Conservation Association (SCA) intern with the Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary, including Buttercup Farm, Rheinstrom Hill, and Ramshorn-Livingston...
Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery
Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks
A geologist explains how thawing permafrost and melting ice are increasing the risk of destructive floods in the Himalayas and other high mountain regions around the world.
A Banding “Grand Slam” at the Bent of the River Audubon Center
The Bent of the River Audubon Center is no sports stadium, but it was nevertheless the site of an exciting “grand slam” this year—just with birds, not baseballs. During a single session, their...