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Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.
"There are going to be times that are very, very hard, and we are in one of them. And we have to keep going with passion, dogged determination, and belief that we can make the impossible possible."
"We're dirt farmers. Our primary job is to tend the dirt. That's the basis of everything."
Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
The city's climate goals include cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2035.
"You really cannot address a problem that you can’t identify."
A GOP-led Congress could resuscitate the effort to transfer roughly 2 acres within the Wind River Indian Reservation to a local irrigation district.
The bill, which just passed Congress, is a bailout for commodity growers and leaves small farmers — and U.S. consumers — out to dry.
