Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.| ProPublica
As the dams come down, crews prepare for miles of new vegetation to rise up. That starts with thousands of tiny acorns.| The Revelator
Private utility companies are blocking new interregional transmission lines| IEEE Spectrum
Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a trace.”| The New Yorker
Marine ice sheet instability hypothesis and the threat of a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Ice shelf removal could result in grounding line retreat.| AntarcticGlaciers.org