Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) warned Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is ill prepared for hurricane season and “is going to fail this summer.” In remarks at a House Rules Committee hearing Wednesday, Moskowitz said the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) steep budget cuts and grant pauses have made FEMA inefficient and risk...
A survey of nearly 50,000 water networks nationwide revealed a staggering 324 different contaminants flowing out of American taps — with detectable levels of various pollutants showing up in nearly all water systems. The findings, from this year's update to the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) Tap Water Database, reveal that millions of people could be consuming...
The Senate has voted to confirm President Trump’s pick to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of a group of nominees confirmed en masse. The Senate voted 51-47 on the entire bloc of 107 nominations, including the confirmation of Neil Jacobs as the under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. Jacobs may...
The Trump administration violated the law when it withheld three types of grants managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Monday. The GAO said FEMA’s moves to withhold the grants violated the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), which spells out the rules under which a presidential administration can seek...
A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, a new study has found. Their epic journey to what is now Fiji marks the longest known transoceanic expansion of...
Kathleen Sgamma, President Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has withdrawn her name from consideration for the role. Sgamma's decision was announced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, during what was supposed to be her confirmation hearing Thursday. “I was informed by the...
Wildfires may be responsible for raising local deaths by about 67 percent in a given month, a study has found. Scientists linked 82 “excess deaths” to the devastating blazes that struck Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 — or two-thirds more fatalities than they would have otherwise expected for that month, according to the study, published...
President Trump on Friday signed executive orders that seek to quadruple the nation’s nuclear power, including by cutbacks to health and environmental considerations. In one such executive order, Trump laments that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) radiation safety standards are too stringent. “The NRC utilizes safety models that posit there is no safe threshold of...
This one-pot beef stew with carrots and daikon radishes is a Cantonese classic. Made with chu hou paste—a blend of fermented yellow soybeans, sesame seeds, garlic, ginger, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, and sugar—it’s a sweet and savory stew that’s deeply flavorful. Plus: It comes together in a single pot.
Chorba frik, a thick, hearty soup popular in Algeria and Tunisia, is made with tender lamb or beef, chickpeas, cracked freekeh, warm spices, and generous handfuls of cilantro.
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New Jersey’s take on classic coffee cake features a thin layer of barely sweet yeasted cake as the base and an unapologetically massive layer of buttery crumbs on top.
