A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Dasha and a passing stranger try to start a cafe’s generator during a blackout in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Delaney Nolan/The Lens)
I hope you are welcoming the official start of spring in your own way this week. We've been enjoying the cherry blossoms around my neighborhood, a welcome pop of color in all the rain.
It's been a few months since we collected some of the local work our reporters produce outside their time with the Desk, and when I go looking for these stories, I usually try to let a theme emerge. These are stories our staff didn't edit, so it's an interesting litmus test of what Basin communities (or at least newsrooms) are talking about. This month, that's clearly been power generation: oil and gas extraction, alternatives and the global reach of these fuels.
The price of fuel is on a lot of people's minds lately, as the war in Iran has driven prices up more than 30% in the past two weeks, per the New York Times. With that global view, I was especially interested to read Delaney Nolan's excellent piece about Gulf producers shipping liquified natural gas (LNG) to Ukraine, where Russian attacks on energy infrastructure force people to rely on small generators. And as Delaney reports, that drives domestic prices higher, too.
LNG shipped from Louisiana is increasingly keeping the lights on in Ukraine, where relentless Russian airstrikes have left the country scrambling for fuel. That pushes up gas prices in the US.
