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Most of you know this already, but you should ignore the small downward dip in the US data. It’s just an artificial reporting gap due to the Thanksgiving weekend. It will return to normal next week. Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 27.…

This piece was originally published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When it comes to dealing with floods, droughts, heat waves, or other adversities that our lively planet throws at us, one…

Our cats are both uninterested in people food. This is normally a good thing, but they take it to such extremes that I can’t even get them to take a sniff of a turkey for a Thanksgiving photo. This is the closest I got, and in reality Hopper is just walking…

Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 26. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey, Christopher Steele, John Bolton, a Time journalist, flag burners—this is just a partial list of the people Donald Trump has wanted to see imprisoned during his ignominious presidency. Yet the moment he…

This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In early October, a dead Soviet satellite and the abandoned upper stage of a Chinese rocket narrowly avoided a collision in low Earth orbit. If the objects…

I had a Thanksgiving themed photo in mind for today, but circumstances intervened and I’m afraid it just didn’t happen. So, um, how about an elephant instead? In any case, have a happy Thanksgiving no matter how you’re celebrating it this year, and…

The United States recorded 2,300 deaths on Wednesday and passed 5 deaths per million, with no sign of any slowing down or flattening. Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 25. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Artie Raslich has been volunteering for seven years with the conservation group Gotham Whale, working on the American Princess, a…

This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. On a balmy August morning…