Lisa Song
Climate/environment reporter at ProPublica. Cartoon me by Laila Milevski. Pro-cats, anti-carrots.
Meet the world’s first known jumping leech … if you darewww.science.org Footage from Madagascar confirms rumored acrobatic skills in at least one species
What it's like living through a 121 degree daywww.npr.org For the most vulnerable in New Delhi, it's a struggle to survive. Ishtiyaq, 24, who sells the cooling yogurt drink lassi in a bazaar, says: “What can I say brother? The poor must endure it all.”
Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern lifewww.npr.org Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.
Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisisgrist.org A new series from Grist, Vox, and The 19th explores how climate change transforms our reproductive lives, from menstruation to fertility to pregnancy.
Marshall Allen, a Tenacious Health Care Journalist, Dies at 52www.propublica.org Allen, who spent 10 years of his career reporting for ProPublica, was a fierce advocate for transparency and fairness in health care, guided by his strong faith and belief in honesty and integrity.
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
The Plastic Industry’s Latest Delay Tactic: “Plastic Offsets”newrepublic.com It’s modeled on carbon offsets. It has a lot of the same problems.
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conferencewww.propublica.org At a conference meant to address the plastic crisis, pro-plastic messaging was inescapable. Meanwhile, industry insiders — some positioned as government delegates — were given access to vital negotiat...
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Lingerwww.propublica.org A city is forever changed, and so is residents’ relationship with their water. The betrayal of trust by the institutions meant to protect Flint’s residents has made some of them extra cautious as they...
Oil, chemical industry lobbyists flood UN talks on cutting plastic pollutionwww.reuters.com Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution — a 37% jump from the previous gathering in November, an analysis released on Thursday showed.
Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapeswww.propublica.org A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He ha...
The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazonwww.newyorker.com As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.
Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they're moving closer to trialgrist.org A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public.
An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workersgrist.org Medical device warehouses can be a source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Georgia is the only state doing anything about it.
The plastics industry would like a word with your kidswww.washingtonpost.com School campuses are a new battleground in an increasingly bitter brawl over plastic’s impact on the environment
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.projects.propublica.org Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
L.A. Times to lay off at least 115 people in the newsroomwww.latimes.com The L.A. Times began laying off 115 newsroom employees on Tuesday. Owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said the cuts were necessary to trim heavy financial losses.
Queens College Lays Off 26 Professors Two Weeks Before Spring Semester - Queens Ledgerqueensledger.com by Charlie Finnerty and Celia Bernhardt | [email protected] Administrative leadership at Queens College CUNY informed faculty Wednesday that they would not reappoint 26 full-time substitute profes...
Out of Balancewww.propublica.org The World Bank Group enabled the devastation of villages and helped a mining company justify the deaths of endangered chimps with a dubious offset.