"With Lake Mead dropping to levels that could trigger water cutbacks in less than two years, there's been a lot of talk lately about negotiating a deal to keep the reservoir from falling even further."
"A Colorado ballot initiative that would sharply increase the required distance between new oil wells and populated areas will go before voters in November, Colorado officials said on Wednesday."
Despite scientific consensus to the contrary, an Australian organization founded and funded by the alcohol industry is distributing a poster suggesting pregnant women can drink safely.
"When President Trump first took office and was looking for someone to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety division, it didn’t go well."
"In a move to solidify California's role as a world leader on climate action, state lawmakers voted this week to shift their state—the world's fifth-largest economy—to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045."
"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."
