Too lazy to compost? Yeah, me too. But with an emerging service, known as curbside food-waste pickup, people like us can feel less guilty
Category: Environment
Invasion of the stink bug: Icky and economically dangerous
And now, a word about the brown marmorated stink bug. If you haven’t heard of it, count yourself lucky. This autumn the stink bug,
Why he quit: Dept. of Interior scientist blasts Zinke in resignation letter
Joel Clement, a scientist at the Department of the Interior, has just joined the legions of people quitting the Trump administration and leaving toughly
Houston flood: How much is 9 trillion gallons of water?
Houston and Southwest Texas are drowning in what the National Weather Service estimates to be 9 trillion gallons of rainwater—so far [as of two
Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad
While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of
Forest Trump: Where ignorance grows trees
Congratulations. You’re a loyal soldier of the Trumpian resistance. You’ve gone to demonstrations. You’ve hoisted your signs and signed the petitions. You’ve made countless
Why she quit: EPA scientist’s scathing letter of resignation
On her way out the door, after 30 years with the Environmental Protection Agency, Elizabeth Southerland left a scathing note detailing why she quit.
Atomic Homefront: The feel-bad movie of the year
The director of Atomic Homefront calls her documentary “the feel-bad movie of the year.” That’s how Rebecca Camissa described it at a special advance
What we’re eating: The Dirty Dozen vs. the Clean Fifteen
Farmers’ market season is in full swing here in the Northeast. And for this devotee, the season of fresh local produce can never come
“A Message to Trump from Climate Scientists”
At the annual gathering of The American Geophysical Union in fall of 2016, more than twenty-three thousand earth and space scientists from around the