Environment Managing the Growing Risk of Human-Made Earthquakes A variety of oil and natural gas activities cause earthquakes, and mitigating the risks will require new tools and new openness from industry. Nathan Collins
News in Brief Lethal Rejection: Will the Supreme Court’s Lethal Injection Review Kill the Death Penalty? The Supreme Court is reviewing lethal injection for the first time in seven years. Here’s what it means for the death penalty. Annie Waldman
Environment Burning Budgets: The Out-of-Control Cost of Fighting Wildfires The cost of fighting wildfires this year is predicted to go over budget by hundreds of millions of dollars. Jason Bittel
Social Justice The Elephants of Oklahoma Circus City U.S.A. has its own circus graveyard and the second-largest Asian elephant herd in the U.S., but it's hiding in a tiny town north of Dallas. Noah Davis