Today’s hottest hiking trail accessory? The selfie stick. dolgachov/Getty Millennials have discovered nature, and for that, we can thank—or blame—Instagram. In recent years, traffic to both state and national parks has surged. Take Mount Rainier, which, from a distance, may look like a massive pile of bird shit but is actually quite photogenic up close. […]
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Will Trump Make Hanford More Dangerous Than It Already Is?
Mike Force Last Tuesday morning, a tunnel at the nation’s largest nuclear cleanup site partially collapsed, leaving a 20-by-20 hole that exposed rail cars carrying some materials with dose levels so lethal they could kill a person within an hour, according to Hanford worker safety activists. Responding to the emergency, authorities sent hundreds of cleanup […]
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Hanford Nuclear Site Evacuated Over Emergency
On the left: a Department of Energy photo of Hanford’s B reactor, the world’s first plutonium reactor. On the right: a sign near the site today. The Stranger A nuclear cleanup site at Hanford, one of the biggest, most complex superfund sites in the country, has been evacuated. At 8:26 this morning, the Hanford Emergency […]
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New York Attorney General: If They Repeal the Clean Power Plan, They Have to Replace It
Make America Pollute Again! ollo/Getty Images A troll who once called climate change a Chinese hoax on Twitter signed an executive order today that starts to roll back the country’s plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. This will probably not result in the flourishing of coal jobs that Trump promised during […]
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Rex Tillerson to Humans: You Must Adapt to Global Warming
“A cloud of pollution [caused by capitalism] hangs over the Eastern United States…” NASA In 2012, Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil’s CEO, and Trump’s pick for the next Secretary of State, admitted to the Council of Foreign Relations that climate change is a real thing (or, to use the language of Timothy Morton, a hyperobject) and caused […]