All about freezing rain
The science of freezing rain. What causes the dangerous winter weather element that can paralyze cities.
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole's spinning disk
For decades, astronomers have spoken of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they’ve clearly confirmed one such hole’s encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.
America’s Aversion to Facts Didn’t Begin With Donald Trump
Retracing the roots of political falsehood.
An Easier Way to Get to Universal Health Care by Fran Korten — YES! Magazine
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
An orangutan will have a chance to find her mate — through Tinder – The Washington Post
The only hiccup so far: Upon being handed a tablet, 11-year-old Samboja immediately destroyed it.
Analysis | Can We Undo Trump’s Environmental Damage?
American climate policy can be salvaged, but environmentalists say action has to be swift and sweeping.
Analysis | How Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.
Analysis | Young Activists Aren’t Waiting For Anyone
Older generations have generally favored “nowism,” which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it.
Anniversary of world’s third most serious nuclear accident
To most, a major nuclear accident means Chernobyl or Fukushima. But the world’s third most deadly nuclear disaster happened 60 years ago, on September 29, 1957, at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city.
Antarctica’s Sleeping Ice Giant Could Wake Soon
The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet looks stable from above—but it’s a dangerously different story below
