WASHINGTON, DC, 23 July 2018 (ENS) – The Trump administration is proposing new rules for implementing the Endangered Species Act, ESA, that will make it more difficult to recover Threatened and Endangered species across the country. Conservation groups fear that the revisions would allow drilling, mining and ranching in what is now protected habitat, but […]
By Michael Halpern 22 June 2018 (Union of Concerned Scientists) – Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times broke the story about the new policy at the U.S. Geological Survey requiring scientists to get permission before speaking to reporters about science. In an attempt to justify the muzzling, a department spokesperson said they were just following an […]
By Niki Kitsantonis, Richard Pérez-Peña, and Russell Goldman 24 July 2018 ATHENS (The New York Times) – Fast-moving wildfires near Athens have killed at least 74 people, officials said on Tuesday, and have forced thousands of tourists and residents to flee in cars and buses, on foot, aboard boats and on makeshift rafts. In desperation, […]
By Palko Karasz 23 July 2018 (The New York Times) – Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic.But it has some beaches you might want to skip right now.The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire seas and ivory beaches, but it is grappling with waves of garbage washing up on its […]
By Nicholas Casey; photographs by Josh Haner 20 July 2018 HANGA ROA, Easter Island (The New York Times) – The human bones lay baking in the sun. It wasn’t the first time Hetereki Huke had stumbled upon an open grave like this one. For years, the swelling waves had broken open platform after platform containing […]
By Anne Barnard; photography by Josh Haner 18 July 2018 Barouk Cedar Forest, Lebanon (The New York Times) – Walking among the cedars on a mountain slope in Lebanon feels like visiting the territory of primeval beings. Some of the oldest trees have been here for more than 1,000 years, spreading their uniquely horizontal branches […]
By Eric Leister 24 July 2018 (AccuWeather) – The deadly heat will continue across Japan through at least Thursday, following the hottest day on record in Japan. The highest temperature ever recorded by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) was reported on Monday when Kumagaya reached 41.1 C (106 F). The Greater Tokyo Area also set […]
By Mari Yamaguchi and Hyung-Jin Kim 23 July 2018 TOKYO (Associated Press) – Japan recorded its highest temperature ever Monday as a deadly heat wave continued to grip a wide swath of the country and nearby South and North Korea.The mercury hit 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kumagaya, a city in Saitama prefecture […]
By Leah Rosenbaum 23 July 2018 (Science News) – Curl the fingers of your left hand over your palm and stick out your thumb like a hitchhiker. Now, you have a rough map of Antarctica — with the inside of your thumb playing the part of the Larsen C ice shelf, says glaciologist Ted Scambos […]
17 July 2018 (Silencing Science Tracker) – On 13 July 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an After Action Report on the 2017 hurricane season. The report notes that the 2017 season was especially damaging, with “three major hurricanes in quick succession.” The report does not, however, discuss the impact of climate change […]
