News in Brief Tiger Poaching Is Showing No Sign of Slowing Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 801 tiger seizures — equivalent to at least 1,755 tigers — were reported across 13… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief New York Is Going to Get a Lot More Hurricanes Like Sandy The incidence of major floods in the Big Apple has tripled since 1800, and it could more than… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Thousands of Illegally Traded Wild Animals Put at Risk by Missing Data Records of confiscated live wild animals represent only a fraction of the actual animals being illegally traded, according… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Is Fracking in the U.K. Really So Bad? The U.K. is turning to natural gas to curb carbon dioxide emissions, but should we still be fracking… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How to Convince People to Evacuate Ahead of a Hurricane A recent study reports wind speed plays a major role in people’s minds as they make the decision… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Hurricane Matthew Is Florida’s Worst-Case Scenario Fueled by a record-warm ocean, Matthew is a storm unlike any yet seen in some parts of the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Californians Stopped Saving So Much Water This Summer … even though the state is still in drought. It’s just not in a record-busting drought like it… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Climate Change Is Threatening to Exterminate the Wayúu People In northeastern Colombia, corruption, climate change, and coal mining have collided to unleash a fatal drought. By Daniel… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief There Are Partisan Divides Not Just on Climate, but Also on Those Who Study Climate Republicans are much more likely to doubt scientists’ understanding of climate change and to question scientists’ motives. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Does Eating Factory-Farmed Meat Put One on Par With Anti-Vaxxers? Both are individual choices made in defiance of sound science and common sense, and both put the rest… Pacific Standard Staff