The DNC won’t oppose fossil fuel subsidies. How much am I paying for them?
Aug 20, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve AndrewsQ. Dear Umbra, How much are we paying for pollutants in tax subsidies for fossil fuels? — Please…Renewables didn’t cause California’s blackouts. So what did?
Aug 20, 2020, 3:58 am By Nathanael JohnsonEnergy grids are straining under the weight of millions of air conditioners as heat has engulfed the…Will fossil fuel sponsors be allowed at the next U.N. climate conference?
Aug 20, 2020, 3:55 am By Emily PontecorvoFor the first time ever, the most important international climate change conference will put its…Forty miles from Mar-a-Lago, the simple act of breathing is a struggle for these Black Floridians
Aug 19, 2020, 6:55 am By Gilda Di CarliThe simple act of breathing has been a challenge for residents of the Glades, a small rural…The irony: ConocoPhillips hopes to freeze thawing permafrost to drill more oil
Aug 19, 2020, 3:56 am By Shannon OsakaLiving on a heating planet always comes with some ironies. For one thing, the people who are most to…An oil well right next to your house? The California Senate says that’s OK.
Aug 19, 2020, 3:55 am By Alexandria HerrA bill that would have fought pollution and environmental racism by mandating a buffer zone between…‘This election is bigger than our generation or even our country’
Aug 18, 2020, 2:10 pm By Nikayla JeffersonI’m 23 and co-chaired the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign for California because, despite the age gap…The first undeniable climate change deaths
Aug 18, 2020, 3:50 am By Daniel MerinoThis story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Building climate resilience in a post-COVID world
11:37am By Grist CreativeThis article is published in partnership with: Over the next 40 years, the world is expected to…Melting ice is a gift to the fossil fuel tankers navigating the Arctic
3:59am By Maria GallucciA stocky blue 980-foot-long tanker named Christophe de Margerie sailed from Russia’s far-north…When facts fail to convince, storytelling may do the trick
3:55am By Kate YoderFacts are great and all, but sometimes you just need to tell a good story. Sharing personal…The term ‘minority’ has never made sense. Let’s cancel it.
3:54am By Derrick Z. JacksonNearly three decades ago, I wrote the following sentence in a Boston Globe column: “Let us bury…Trump wants to use FEMA to pay for unemployment. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Aug 15, 2020, 6:55 am By Zoya TeirsteinLast weekend, President Trump did something unusual. He issued a memorandum authorizing states to…Your future home could be powered by the bricks it’s built with
Aug 14, 2020, 3:59 am By Emily PontecorvoImagine a world where instead of threading the walls of your house with copper wires that deliver…Apple’s Lisa Jackson on leadership, justice, and generations of change
Aug 13, 2020, 3:01 pm By Andrew SimonOver the last few months, Apple has taken a couple big swings. In June, the technology company…Solar panels are starting to die. What will we do with the megatons of toxic trash?
Aug 13, 2020, 3:59 am By Maddie StoneSolar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential…Don’t like what scientists are saying? Try insulting them.
Aug 13, 2020, 3:58 am By Kate YoderIn an interview with Fox News last month, President Donald Trump called Anthony Fauci, the…Why is it hard to befriend neighbors, even during a pandemic?
Aug 13, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve AndrewsQ. Dear Umbra, Like everyone else, I’m really craving community right now. But I’m far from my…What’s that smell? Scientists discover what makes locusts swarm.
Aug 12, 2020, 11:00 am By Emily PontecorvoThe photos are truly the stuff of nightmares: Swarms of desert locusts blocking out the sun,…Trump official says coal isn’t dead, it’s just waiting to become ceramics, roof tiles, and iPhones
Aug 12, 2020, 3:59 am By Naveena SadasivamCoal is on its way out when it comes to electricity generation. But at least one Trump…
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