"Growing swarms of hungrier and hyperactive insects may wipe out big percentages of the world's three most important grain crops — wheat, corn and rice — even if the world manages to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius, the upper-end target of the Paris climate agreement, scientists warn."
"A federal judge in Montana on Thursday issued a court order temporarily blocking the first trophy hunts of Yellowstone-area grizzly bears in more than 40 years, siding with native American groups and environmentalists seeking to restore the animals’ protected status."
"A Canadian court on Thursday froze plans to expand an oil pipeline that the government is about to purchase, ruling that the government’s National Energy Board had not adequately consulted with Indigenous people along the pipeline’s route or assessed the project’s potential effects on the waters off British Columbia."
This National Association of Science Writers event in Washington, DC will bring together science journalists and the public information officers (PIOs), who mediate access to government scientists and information, in order to identify solutions for when journalists want more access to sources and information than PIOs are able to provide.
"Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice."
"A progressive advocacy group is accusing oil and gas companies of sitting on federal leases to boost their balance sheets. In a report released today, the Center for American Progress alleges that companies routinely scoop up oil and gas leases without actually developing them in order to elevate their financial profile. Federal agencies enable the activity, the report says."
"More than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency placed San Antonio in its “non-attainment” category because of persistently high levels of smog-producing ozone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn the federal designation."
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today [Wednesday] rolled out the department's proposed management design, which would shift most bureaus into 12 'unified regions.'"
" Detroit's city school district is shutting off drinking water to all of its schools after test results found elevated levels of lead or copper in 16 of 24 schools recently tested."
"As many as 85 villages were flooded in Myanmar after a dam failed, unleashing waters that blocked a major highway and forced more than 63,000 people from their homes, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday."
