This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Alpine pennycress is a charming little plant. Its low-growing rosette of green leaves is topped by leggy stalks bearing clusters of pinkish-white flowers. As they develop, these flowers transform into beautiful flattened seedpods that, in the words of botanist Liz […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood. Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district […]
A new report found that less than 0.1% of global philanthropy goes to combatting air pollution, which the WHO says poses major health and climate risks.
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million acres to 33 million acres, an area […]