Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an “only in New York” problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence.
Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine
Visitors have unearthed over 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972.
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as well as using it to underwrite carbon credits.
UN Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure
Procedural hurdles yet again foil progress on a global agreement to end plastic pollution.
Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic
A study of plastic bottles washed up on the Pacific coast of Latin America has identified a double problem—a mass of local waste combined with long-traveling bottles from Asia.
Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA
WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all the gaps.