Google’s Debug program just filed a request with the EPA to release up to 64 million mosquitoes across California and Florida over two years. Not a typo. Not a leak from a dystopian screenplay. An actual permit application to flood two of the nation’s most populated states with tens of…
Category: Environment
Climate
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Snakes Are Moving North, East, and Into Farmyards — Because the Planet Won’t Stop Heating Up
Here is my third day in the fourth grade. Bunny goes into the terrarium. Boa constrictor does what boa constrictors do. Twenty-five kids learn that nature doesn’t negotiate — it just happens, usually in front of an audience that didn’t sign up for the lesson. That memory probably explains why…
Environment
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Two Ticks on the Kitchen Floor — Emergency Rooms Are Seeing the Same Problem
Two ticks. Kitchen floor. Tuesday morning. Not outside where they belong — where you expect the occasional wildlife cameo after a hike or yard work — but inside, crawling across the linoleum like they paid rent. First time that’s ever happened in this house. First time I’ve had to wonder…
Environment
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A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons Before Anyone Thought to Check the Meter
Residents of Annelise Park, an affluent subdivision in Fayetteville, Georgia, started noticing something off last year. Water pressure was unusually low. The showers ran weakly. Sprinklers sputtered. When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta….