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Inside the Dark and Unregulated World of Roadside Zoos
Current Affairs • Sep 22, 2025

Inside the Dark and Unregulated World of Roadside Zoos

The indoor enclosure that confined the lioness, Nasha, was wet and soiled with excessive feces, urine, soil, and food wastes with no clean bedding provided,” reads the December 2024 inspection report for a roadside zoo in coastal Oregon. The report, completed by the US Department of Agriculture, paints a grim and detailed picture of systemic animal neglect:  “On closer observation, Nasha’s coat was matted with what appeared to be feces on various areas of her body, she was wide-eyed, crouched and reluctant to approach the enclosure door.”

These Texas Scientists Are Doing Their Best to Thwart Scary Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Mother Jones • Sep 21, 2025

These Texas Scientists Are Doing Their Best to Thwart Scary Mosquito-Borne Diseases

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under a microscope, a mosquito can look stunning. Their blue-green iridescent scales, purple bands, and attractive spotted wings shimmer—dazzling enough to forget, for a moment, the insect lives to take a sip of your blood. Mosquitoes range in size, […]

Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change
Mother Jones • Sep 20, 2025

Report: Two-Thirds of Heat Deaths in Europe This Year Were the Result of Climate Change

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to […]

This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval
Mother Jones • Sep 18, 2025

This Republican Attempt to Scuttle Federal Land Plans Could Cause Great Upheaval

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the spring of 1996, lawmakers quietly buried a rider in a humdrum bill meant to make life easier for small businesses. That addition, the Congressional Review Act, granted Congress the power to kill new federal regulations with a simple […]

Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm
Mother Jones • Sep 18, 2025

Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages. In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its […]

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