July 2023 – Climate Desk

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High Country News

Finding a fix for ‘forever chemicals’

Tests found PFAS in nearly all the public drinking water in Vancouver, Washington. The city is testing a solution that could take years — and more than $170 million — to build.

Sarah Trent · July 31, 2023
Guardian

Inside the Republican plot to dismantle US environmental policy

Rightwing groups penned a conservative wish list of proposals for the next conservative president to gut environmental protections

Dharna Noor · July 31, 2023
Mother Jones

The Colorado provides drinking water to 40 million people. Do they know what Utah does to it upstream?

I went to Mordor to find out.

Stephanie Mencimer · July 28, 2023
Grist

This little-known federal regulator could crack down on fraudulent carbon offsets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is "uniquely situated" to stop carbon market manipulation.

Joseph Winters · July 27, 2023
bioGraphic

When deep-sea miners come a-courting

As the Cook Islands embraces the burgeoning industry, deep-sea mining companies are becoming part of the community’s day-to-day.

Rachel Reeves · July 27, 2023
Inside Climate News

Tucker Carlson spread climate misinformation. His replacement isn’t better.

Like his predecessor, Jesse Watters downplays the climate crisis and stokes culture-war outrage.

Kristoffer Tigue · July 24, 2023
Reveal

As climate clock ticks, US government has been using burning trash to look green

Federal agencies have been padding their environmental stats with a strategy that’s too cheap, too carbon-heavy and too easy to make a difference.

Will Evans and Najib Aminy · July 24, 2023
Wired

Ticks and the diseases they carry are spreading. Can this drug stamp them out?

A small study showed that feeding deer a type of ivermectin reduced the number of ticks drinking their blood.

Maryn McKenna · July 24, 2023
Guardian

Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke

Mother of Gabriel Infante sues employer for $1 million, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat.

Michael Sainato · July 24, 2023
Grist

The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens

Fungal diseases have come for frogs, bats, and bananas, and they're coming for us, too.

Zoya Teirstein · July 21, 2023
Guardian

’We can’t escape’: climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west

Extreme weather, fueled by global heating, is affecting energy, water, insurance premiums and food and housing costs

Maanvi Singh · July 21, 2023
Mother Jones

The problem with calling Vermont’s storms a “100-year-flood”

Thanks to climate change, these deluges are occurring much more often.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · July 21, 2023