Climate change is increasing the frequency of the blooms. Here’s what you need to know. The post Toxic algal blooms are spreading across the West appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Ancient pottery from Tampa Bay appears to have been made by migrant craftspeople who brought specialized Mississippian pottery-making knowledge hundreds of miles south. Remarkably, they even incorporated crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new vessels, preserving a physical link to their past across generations., Read MoreContinue Reading
Across Papua New Guinea, water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising months before the worst agricultural impacts are expected. Behind those warning signs is an El Niño whose Pacific Ocean temperatures have already surpassed the equivalent measurements during the historic 1997 and 2015 eventsContinue Reading
Restaurants with gas stoves and ovens are exposing workers to harmful air pollution and unsafe levels of heat, according to a new study led by California researchers.Continue Reading
The price of water increased faster than inflation, grocery prices and median household income, nonprofit Food & Water Watch found in a new analysis. By Steven Rodas Drinking water costs spiked faster than inflation, grocery prices and median household income, researchers at nonprofit Food & Water Watch outlined in aContinue Reading
Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, the gene evolved millions of years ago from a mobile piece of DNA known as a transposon,Continue Reading
Pregnancy and childbirth have become a “new fault line in the global climate crisis” as extreme heat worsens, the head of the UN climate action body (UNFCCC) warned on Monday, calling for maternal and newborn health to be built into countries’ climate plans. Continue Reading
Should the world move away sharply from fossil fuels, or manage a slower, more careful retreat? Continue Reading
By Stephanie Casanova, AZ Luminaria Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days. Continue Reading
Faced with a president who has called global warming a hoax, officials have filed dozens of suits against oil companies to try to cover the costs of extreme weather.Continue Reading
Some rural counties in Colorado have sided with the oil firms in the case.Continue Reading
This year, federal forecasters say the planet could see the strongest El Niño event on record. Here’s what you need to know. (Image credit: NOAA Satellites)Continue Reading
Environmental work being done by tribes across the country will be made more difficult now that the The Traitor administration has more narrowly defined ‘harm.’ The post Native nations sue over Endangered Species Act changes appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading