The world’s energy report card just came out. We failed 3 subjects.
Nov 14, 2019, 5:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
The world just got its energy report card … and at best, its grades are mixed. Every year, the…Do you have to travel the world to know what poverty is?
Nov 14, 2019, 3:03 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, People say that travel to less developed countries is good because we see how poor…This pipeline cuts across a reservation. Wisconsin might make tribal members felons for protesting it.
Nov 13, 2019, 1:39 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
For more than 60 years, one section of Enbridge’s elaborate network of pipelines carrying…Wind and solar can save the planet — can they save our water supply, too?
Nov 13, 2019, 3:58 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Solar panels and wind turbines are lifelines to any non-apocalyptic version of the future. They’ll…One of the country’s biggest climate denier groups just did an about-face
Nov 13, 2019, 3:58 am By Emily Pontecorvo
This past summer, members of Congress and environmental groups began using the hashtag…Elizabeth Warren’s new plan would jail lying fossil fuel executives
Nov 12, 2019, 9:09 am By Zoya Teirstein
Lying under oath is a crime known as perjury, but corporations lie all the time. (Remember when…Here’s why Australia is having a cataclysmic wildfire season
Nov 12, 2019, 3:58 am By Zoya Teirstein
California isn’t the only place with wildfire woes this year. Weeks before the start of summer,…Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.
Nov 12, 2019, 3:58 am By Maria Gallucci
A 20-foot tower of tubes and wires rises inside a narrow building in Brooklyn. Crystal-clear liquid…Could letting consumers fix their iPhones help save the planet?
3:58am By Maddie Stone
Earlier this summer, Adam Fullerton’s mother-in-law was on vacation in Taiwan when she…How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis
3:56am By Zoya Teirstein
The results are in, and there’s not mushroom for debate: fungi are an important, if undervalued,…Cory Booker shines at first-ever presidential environmental justice forum
Sun 3:47pm By Zoya Teirstein
Several Democratic 2020 candidates appeared on Friday in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to attend a…Oslo wants to build the world’s first zero-emissions port
Nov 9, 2019, 6:00 am By Tracey Lindeman
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Pete Buttigieg’s climate vision: Local fixes for a planet in crisis
Nov 8, 2019, 1:46 pm By Sarah Holder
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Why Obama’s plans to clean up coal ash barely got off the ground
Nov 8, 2019, 3:58 am By Emily Pontecorvo
On Monday, in yet another last-ditch effort to save the coal industry from obsolescence, EPA…Green orgs say they care about diversity. Why won’t they act like it?
Nov 8, 2019, 3:55 am By Yvette Cabrera
A national campaign known as the Green Diversity Initiative, or Green 2.0, began calling on…How the U.S. accidentally raised the IQ of an entire generation
Nov 7, 2019, 3:59 am By Naveena Sadasivam
View the video in your browser Nearly a hundred years ago, the United States solved a major public…Trump’s exit might not be the Paris Agreement’s biggest problem
Nov 7, 2019, 3:58 am By Rachel Ramirez
President Trump just made good on another one of his promises. On Monday, his administration began…What do firefighting chemicals do to a forest?
Nov 7, 2019, 3:03 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, What is Phos-Chek, the red stuff the fire department drops on fires? And what does it…‘OK, boomer’: The perfect response to a generation that failed on climate
Nov 6, 2019, 4:58 pm By Miyo McGinnOn Monday, Chlöe Swarbrick, a 25-year old member of New Zealand’s Parliament, gave a speech to…Wildfire smoke is a silent killer — and climate change is making it worse
Nov 6, 2019, 1:23 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
As the Kincade Fire burned through some 80,000 acres in Northern California, Ismael Barcenas, felt…
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