Nat Lash News Today

A roundup of the articles we wish we’d written ourselves this past year.

Is there any day of the year that tests the capacities of affluent Americans’ French-door refrigerators as much as Thanksgiving? When else do you need to stuff a giant bird carcass, cranberries, pie crust, a wide array of vegetables, and more into a fridge already containing regular groceries? Then there’s the matter of storing the leftovers.In the past century, artificial refrigeration has completely transformed the American food system. Home refrigerators allow people to keep per...

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the definition of obstruction is knowing exactly how to fix a problem and pursuing everything but the obvious solution. The U.N. Environment Program’s attempts to negotiate a global plastic treaty is suffering from both of these afflictions at once.Negotiators are gathered in Nairobi this week for the third of five meetings to broker a treaty to reduce plastic pollution. The past two meet...

A scientist went viral with a thread on the inexcusable lack of funding for climate science communications.

Water conservation efforts are falling short of fixing the West's megadrought. A new investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun reveals one reason why: not every water user counts equally.

This week's newsletter also has news on L.A. city and county plans to get greener, good news for campers and a possible silver lining in the I-10 mess.

Water conservation efforts are falling short of fixing the West's megadrought. A new investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun reveals one reason why: not every water user counts equally.

This week's newsletter also has news on L.A. city and county plans to get greener, good news for campers and a possible silver lining in the I-10 mess.

This week's newsletter also has news on L.A. city and county plans to get greener, good news for campers and a possible silver lining in the I-10 mess.