Now the biggest barrier to change is the will of our politicians to take serious climate action.By Bill McKibben, April 28, 2021 Because its costs continue to slide with every quarter, solar energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels almost everywhere on the planet by the decade’s end.Photograph by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / GettySubscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to
April 26, 2021 Approximately 100,000 wolves, bears, mountain lions, and bobcats are killed by trophy hunters every year in the U.S. for their skins, heads, a trophy, or for bragging on social media. By killing America’s iconic native carnivores at this alarming rate, trophy hunters remove wildlife species that are vital to maintaining the health and balance of our country’s biodiversity. This is always a fitting concern, but it
April 27, 2021For decades it was the only freshwater dolphin species in the world not considered threatened by human activity. The tucuxi of the Amazon held out even as similar species in South America and Asia were dammed in, poisoned, or killed as bycatch; one is considered to have gone extinct.Now, the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) has finally succumbed: in the latest assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, this river
Overpumping, drought and climate change are lowering water tables worldwideBy Chelsea Harvey, April 27, 2021 Credit: Paul Jones Getty Imagesdiv class="article-block article-text" data-behavior="newsletter_promo dfp_article_rendering " data-dfp-adword="Advertisement" data-newsletterpromo_article-button-link="https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/newsletter-sign-up/?origincode=2018_sciam_ArticlePromo_NewsletterSignUp" data-newsletterpromo_article-button-text="Sign
