Nate MacKay

Lawyers for Latino voters in Yakima Valley said the evidence of Voting Rights Act violations could still result in the maps’ ouster at trial in 2023.

Even in the strongest climate change mitigation scenario, where the world reaches net-zero carbon emissions around 2050, wildfire particle pollution will increase by as much as 50% by the middle of the century and then level off through 2100.

According to research published Tuesday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, scientists at 14 institutes around the world found that 2021 broke the record for heat accumulated in the upper ocean. The upper ocean absorbs 20 to 30% of human carbon dioxide emissions.

Reid battled pancreatic cancer in the years since his retirement from the Senate in 2017. Veteran political reporter Jon Ralston announced Reid’s death late Tuesday afternoon, calling him “probably the most important elected official in Nevada history.”

A December 2020 Fish and Wildlife report indicated that the population of the owls “warranted” endangered status, but the agency chose not to reclassify the owls citing limited resources and higher priority species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday reversed a Trump administration rule that would have opened more than a third of the northern spotted owl’s protected habitat in Oregon, Washington state and California to logging.

Citizens of advanced economies across the globe said they are willing to alter how they live and work in response to climate change, according to a new survey conducted by Pew Research Center.