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GM closures: Oshawa, Ontario, needs more than ‘thoughts and prayers'
All eyes in Canada have turned to Oshawa, Ontario, following the announcement by General Motors that it will end auto manufacturing in the city after more than a century of production.In the coming...
View ArticleInternational lawmakers seek global regulations for social media
For the first time in decades, the UK and nine other countries convened at the British House of Commons as an opportunity to address issues around disinformation, fake news, electoral interference and...
View ArticleMegafires are becoming increasingly common in California and climate change...
The Camp and Woolsey fires in November 2018 engulfed hundreds of thousands of acres of land in a matter of hours and so far have claimed a record number of lives. And according to climate change...
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Polish artists turn coal into ‘black gold’ as the mining industry shifts
When the Wieczorek mine, one of the oldest coal mines in Poland, closed in March, Grzegorz Chudy noticed for the first time the neighborhood was vibrant with trees in the full bloom of spring. The...
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A pioneering ‘rewilding’ project in England transforms a 200-year-old family...
When writer Isabella Tree, and her husband, Charlie Burrell, inherited an estate in West Sussex, England, they assumed they would continue to farm, as generations of family had before them. But the...
View ArticleDavid Attenborough: Global warming is 'our greatest threat'
British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough on Monday urged world leaders meeting in Poland to agree to ways to limit global warming in order to tackle "our greatest threat in thousands...
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As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, scientists push to learn ‘how fast’
This story comes to us through a partnership with the podcast and radio program Threshold, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center.You might’ve read about it, heard about it, seen pictures of it,...
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PHOTOS: Up close and personal with Greenland’s massive ice sheet
This story is part of our series The Big Melt. It comes to us through a partnership with the podcast and radio program Threshold, with funding support from the Pulitzer Center.Greenland’s ice sheet...
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Why the rise of populist nationalist leaders rewrites global climate talks
The election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil not only marks the rise of another populist nationalist leader on the world stage. It’s also a turning point for the global politics of climate change.When the...
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While small dairy farms close, this mega-dairy is shipping milk to China
In 2006, Stephanie Doane moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to a small, rural community in the high desert of Nevada.Smith Valley seemed like the perfect place for the photographer to write and...
View ArticleNew internet laws in Russia — and US tech giants’ acquiescence — spell...
A 2017 law regulating online activity and anonymous speech went into effect in Russia at the beginning of this month.The law on “information and information technology” stipulates what content search...
View ArticleMarinating in plastics
A few months ago, Cullen Potter graduated from the University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Born at 13.9 ounces, Cullen spent his first five months in...
View ArticleNearly swallowed by the sea, a small island in Tanzania fights against...
First, the encroaching sea started eating away at homes and killing crops on the small island of Kisiwa Panza. Then the rising tides began bringing up the dead.For over 25 years, rising seas linked to...
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Poland is a coal country. But for how long?
At first glance, the building at Floriana 7 doesn’t seem particularly remarkable. It sits in a nondescript neighborhood in Katowice, Poland, right next to the railroad tracks. But outside, on a small...
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Insects slipping into the US are causing billions of dollars in damage
From a distance, the hemlock trees by the Wappinger Creek in Millbrook, New York, look just fine. But forest ecologist Gary Lovett knows better. He pulls back the twigs and exposes some tiny, white...
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Smothered by smog, activists are urging Poland to reconsider coal
Andrzej Guła walks his bike across the famous medieval square in the center of Krakow, in southern Poland. The square is bustling with tourists, packing into coffee shops and restaurants to escape the...
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UN compact recognizes climate change as driver of migration for first time
Millions of people have to move each year due to natural disasters and the impacts of climate change. Droughts that kill crops in Somalia. Rising seas that erode riverbanks in Bangladesh. Increasingly...
View ArticleJudge halts Keystone XL pipeline, citing ‘complete disregard’ for climate
A year and a half after President Donald Trump reversed an Obama administration decision to block TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a federal district judge in Montana has halted the project again,...
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Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for paleontology
A lot happened in the world of paleontology in 2018. Some of the big events included some major fossil finds, a new understanding of our reptile ancestors and a major controversy whose outcome could...
View ArticleCrackdown in Beijing: ‘Using Twitter is more dangerous than street...
Authorities in Beijing have launched a nationwide crackdown on mainland Chinese Twitter users.The Dec. 5 release of 42 testimonies collected by China Change, a Chinese human rights advocacy site,...
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