La. Oil Disaster Leaves Black Parents Asking How to Keep Their Kids Safe
"As the Louisiana town recovers, residents wrestle with the increasingly difficult task of shielding children from a polluted future."
Source: Capital B, 08/24/2026
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NIH Plan To Keep Peer-Review Scores For Grants Secret Draws Concern
"The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to change a key step in the review process determining which research it funds, raising concerns about transparency and political interference."
Source: Science, 08/24/2026
Interior Paid $156 Million For Employees Not To Work
"The Department of the Interior spent more than $150 million on administrative leave for employees working in the secretary’s office last year."
Source: E&E News, 08/24/2026
World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats
"Heat and drought have diminished harvests in some of the biggest wheat-producing countries, including the United States, which is expected to have its worst wheat harvest in a half-century, spiking prices. Poor countries that agreed to buy American wheat under the threat of Trump tariffs could be stuck paying abnormally high prices."
Source: New York Times, 08/24/2026
A Pizza-Sized Ocean Predator And A Tribe Are Trying To Protect Each Other
"On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, just east of the San Juan Islands."
Source: NPR, 08/21/2026
12 Picks For Your Last Book Of The Summer
"August though it is, there’s still at least one good book left of summer. So this month’s post offers 12 possible choices for your final summer read: six non-fiction and six fiction."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 08/21/2026
Japan's Farmers Go Nocturnal As Deadly Heat Intensifies
"Long after sunset, Motoaki Iijima’s illuminated greenhouse north of Tokyo glows like a lantern as the flower farmer harvests pink and orange gerberas, avoiding a daytime sun fierce enough to be deadly."
Source: Reuters, 08/21/2026
Trump Lifts Summer Gasoline Restrictions Early As Prices Remain Stubborn
"The Trump administration is ending summertime smog restrictions on gasoline early this year in a bid to offer relief for high prices at the pump."
Source: The Hill, 08/21/2026
How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Environmental Policies
"The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California’s position as a national leader in environmental protection, enlisting at least a half-dozen federal agencies to undermine the state’s efforts to pivot away from fossil fuels."
Source: New York Times, 08/21/2026
Great Waste In The Great Lakes: Plastic Pollution Is Clogging Our Waters
"More than 40 million people in the United States and Canada depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Each glass of treated lake water is laden with tiny bits of plastic — microplastics — made of toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases. Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 08/21/2026
