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Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
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For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
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$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
The headlines declared the Army is going nuclear. On August 26 a new service called Janus commenced. It will cost up to $2.2 billion, include more than twenty small commercial reactors, is composed of five companies and five Army bases, with first power due by September 30, 2028. The project spans from Fort Bragg in…Continue reading The Army Isn’t Buying Power. It is Buying an Industry.
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Twenty years ago, Bill Gates decided to get heavily involved in how the continent of Africa feeds its inhabitants. Through the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), launched by the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, AGRA promised to cut hunger in half and double crop yields and farmer incomes in some of the poorest…Continue reading Gates Promised to Halve Hunger in Africa. Twenty Years Later, It Climbed.
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President Trump has recently acknowledged some major issues within the American food system. From high food prices and a historically low U.S. cattle supply to broader consumer relief, what PR message did his executive order deliver about what American farmers and ranchers need to stay competitive? In late August, Trump signed a proclamation to ensure…Continue reading The Right To Process and Sell: The American Farmer’s Food Fight
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For decades, the idea of deliberately manipulating Earth’s climate seemed confined to science fiction. Today, geoengineering has become the subject of government research programs, academic studies, private investment, and public debate. One proposed form of climate engineering is solar geoengineering, or more formally, Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). It would attempt to cool the Earth by…Continue reading Understanding Solar Geoengineering: Separating Science, Speculation, and the Debate Over Climate Intervention
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In a lonely stretch of rural West Texas called Pecos County, construction crews are clearing the land for a power plant unlike almost any other in the United States. The New York Times investigated the site in August, revealing that Cleanview satellite images showed that the ground there was already being scraped bare. The project…Continue reading Behind the Meter, Beyond the Pledge
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On the rooftop of a seven-story building on Long Island, scientist Justine Haupt has installed what her lab calls a lighthouse. Unlike a typical lighthouse, the purpose of Haupt’s project is not to warn ships. Instead, it catches single particles of light, one at a time, that have been fired thirteen miles away through the…Continue reading The Invisible Lighthouse
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