utah-is-killing-the-great-salt-lake

This story was originally published by High Country News. When tired Mormon settlers crested the Wasatch Mountains in July 1847 and first beheld the Great Salt Lake, they almost didn’t believe their eyes. But this was no mirage. And though the vast lake turned out to be saline, they knewContinue Reading

how-octopuses-won-a-fight-against-factory-farming

This story was originally published by Sentient. Plans to build the world’s first commercial octopus farm are dead. On July 22, the Port Authority of Las Palmas announced that Nueva Pescanova, the Spanish seafood giant behind the proposal, had withdrawn its application to build the octopus farm in the Canary Islands. How didContinue Reading