Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
Jan 28, 2020, 9:30 am By Spike Johnson
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. The Ace…Weathercasters are talking about climate change — and how we can solve it
Jan 28, 2020, 3:55 am By Maddie Stone
For many years, as the science of human-caused climate change grew ever clearer, TV meteorologists…Climate change helped spawn East Africa’s locust crisis
Jan 28, 2020, 3:50 am By Zoya Teirstein
An alien species visiting Earth in the year 2020 would be forgiven for assuming that humankind had…Amazon told its workers not to criticize its climate policies. They didn’t listen.
Jan 27, 2020, 6:38 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Hundreds of Amazon employees are risking their jobs to speak out about climate change. “We are…The Trump administration is helping 9 states prepare for climate change
Jan 27, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
When extreme weather hits the United States, coastal Southern states tend to get the worst of it.…How the Xbox stands between Microsoft and its climate goals
Jan 27, 2020, 3:55 am By Maria Gallucci
By 2030, Microsoft has pledged to become “carbon negative” — meaning it will remove more…‘The Good Place’: It’s hard to be good when the world’s on fire
3:58am By Kate Yoder
This story contains spoilers for The Good Place. When aliens show up in fiction, the story usually…Waiter, there’s a climate surcharge in my soup
Sat 6:00am By Maddie OatmanThis story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Do carbon offsets really work? It depends on the details.
Jan 24, 2020, 3:01 pm By Eric Niiler
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…STIs can save the planet. No, not those STIs.
Jan 24, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
The words “climate tipping point” brings to mind collapsing ice shelves, rainforests burning to…Is fake meat getting too much like the real thing?
Jan 24, 2020, 3:50 am By Zoe Sayler
I’ve been thinking back to just a few years ago: It was a simpler time, when, at a nice family…Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, due in part to climate change
Jan 23, 2020, 3:37 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Humanity is now the closest it has ever been to total annihilation. That might sound like something…Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it
Jan 23, 2020, 9:30 am By Jamie Smith Hopkins
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. It was…Sold: Bankrupt Philadelphia oil refinery goes to a real estate company
Jan 23, 2020, 3:40 am By Rachel Ramirez
Last Friday, 35 Philadelphians rose early to board a charter bus bound for New York City at 6:30…What’s the most ethical way to store leftovers?
Jan 23, 2020, 3:03 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, I’m so confused about how to store food. They say plastic is bad, but glass is…Small farmers feel left out amid a boom in African fertilizer production
Jan 22, 2020, 9:38 am By Rupa Shenoy, The World
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. For…Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico
Jan 22, 2020, 9:35 am By Daniel Penner
View the video in your browser American farmers’ use of fertilizer to grow crops results in a…Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Why doesn’t the government regulate it as one?
Jan 22, 2020, 9:34 am By Joe Wertz, Center for Public Integrity
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World.…Big Oil wants to dump more wastewater into rivers. What could go wrong?
Jan 22, 2020, 3:55 am By Naveena Sadasivam
For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of…The next big leap for fake meat
Jan 21, 2020, 3:55 am By Andrew Zaleski
The choice seemed obvious: Burger A was the real meat, Burger B the one made from plants. Glenn Beck…
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