A prescription for a post-COVID economy: a national climate bank
Jun 23, 2020, 3:59 am By Maria Gallucci
When the Obama administration entered the White House in January 2009, the previous year’s…This Alpine glacier is melting. So a ski resort put a tarp on it.
Jun 23, 2020, 3:55 am By Joseph Winters
What do you do when your 200-acre glacier — a “Giant of the Alps” — begins to melt from…Does city living spread coronavirus? It’s complicated.
Jun 22, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
Police violence, a pandemic, economic disaster — lately, urban living doesn’t seem all that…Clean clothes or clean oceans? Now you don’t have to choose.
Jun 22, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
Everyone knows the basics of keeping pollution out of the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle. But…Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air
Jun 22, 2020, 3:50 am By Luna Shyr
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Amid a pandemic, transit authorities turn to technology
Jun 21, 2020, 3:50 am By Doug Johnson
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Reflections on Father’s Day a decade after losing my dad
Jun 20, 2020, 6:59 am By Jesse Nichols
It’s strange to look back at the moments before your life changed forever. Last month was the…Climate change is killing Americans. Health departments aren’t equipped to respond.
Jun 20, 2020, 3:50 am By Dean Russell
This investigation was conducted by Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public…What does pollution have to do with police violence?
Jun 19, 2020, 3:55 am By Angely Mercado
What does particulate matter pollution have to do with racist police violence? Quite a lot,…Lyft drivers have 10 years to swap their gas cars for EVs
Jun 19, 2020, 3:55 am By Joseph Winters
On Wednesday, Lyft announced a plan to transition to 100 percent electric vehicles (EVs) on its…The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves
Jun 19, 2020, 3:50 am By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…This plastics company is trying to stop Black residents from visiting a slave burial site on Juneteenth
Jun 18, 2020, 6:22 pm By Rachel Ramirez
Earlier today, a group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to…Texas relaxed environmental enforcement during the pandemic, state data show
Jun 18, 2020, 3:59 am By Naveena Sadasivam
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is one of the largest and most influential…What is Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ trying to do?
Jun 18, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, What’s the deal with autonomous zones? I’ve seen pictures on the news of the one…Don’t have a cow, but Big Dairy’s climate footprint is as big as the UK’s
Jun 18, 2020, 3:55 am By Joseph Winters
If dairy cows were a country, they would have the same climate impact as the entire United Kingdom.…WATCH: A Conversation with WA Governor Jay Inslee
Jun 17, 2020, 2:39 pm By Annelise McGough
Grist, in partnership with Climate Solutions, hosted a live conversation with Washington Governor…Seattle’s ‘autonomous zone’ belongs to a grand tradition of utopian experiments
Jun 17, 2020, 3:59 am By Kate Yoder
The year 2020 seems to be drawn straight from the plot of some discarded dystopian novel — a book…The 2020 Republican platform: Make America 2016 again
Jun 17, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
The Republican National Committee voted to approve its 2020 platform last week with little fanfare.…The deep sea could hold the key to a renewable future. Is it worth the costs?
Jun 17, 2020, 3:55 am By Maddie Stone
For humanity to kick its fossil fuel habit, we’re going to need a lot more wind turbines, solar…Why do some neighborhoods get hotter than others?
Jun 17, 2020, 3:55 am By Teresa Chin
This lesson is part of our Climate 101 educational series for parents and K-12 educators. It’s…
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