Bitcoin is hard to understand. So is its carbon footprint.
Nov 27, 2019, 3:58 am By Emily Pontecorvo
In 2013, we found out that Bitcoin mining might be bad for the environment, since the process…How indigenous Bolivians lost faith in Evo Morales after the Amazon blaze
Nov 27, 2019, 3:58 am By Rachel Ramirez
Evo Morales, who resigned as president of Bolivia and sought asylum in Mexico amid political turmoil…Paris Agreement targets need to be 5 times stronger to actually work
Nov 26, 2019, 5:22 pm By Zoya Teirstein
In almost exactly a year’s time, nearly 200 countries will have the chance to go back to the…Vulnerable communities face larger threats under EPA’s proposed science rule
Nov 26, 2019, 12:01 pm By Yvette Cabrera
Scientists across the country expressed alarm this month over a leaked proposal that details a…This company wants to make steel and cement with solar power. Here’s how.
Nov 26, 2019, 3:58 am By Maddie StoneMany of the industrial processes underpinning modern civilization rely on dirty energy for the…The historic protest at the Harvard-Yale football game was years in the making
5:14pm By Emily Pontecorvo
Saturday marked the 136th annual Harvard-Yale football game, a tradition known simply as “The…What a Bloomberg candidacy could mean for climate
4:49pm By Zoya Teirstein
This weekend, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the presidential race in classic…Republicans are buying rooftop solar. Will it change their politics?
3:58am By Emily Pontecorvo
Say you’re walking down the street in a random neighborhood somewhere in the United States, and…You can care about climate change and still drive an SUV. I do.
Sun 6:00am By Dawn Stover
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists other Jones and is…Presidential candidates wouldn’t touch this radical idea to transform agriculture — until now
Nov 23, 2019, 6:15 am By Tom Philpott
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…‘Ford v Ferrari’ is the climate change horror film nobody needed
Nov 22, 2019, 1:07 pm By L.V. Anderson
This post contains spoilers for Ford v Ferrari, a bad movie that you should not see. In the opening…The pope might make destroying the earth a sin. Will Catholics listen?
Nov 22, 2019, 3:59 am By Zoya Teirstein
Pope Francis is not your average pope. He’s weighed in on prison reform and women’s rights, and…Wait — Republicans used to like the Green New Deal?
Nov 22, 2019, 3:58 am By Kate Yoder
Most Republicans once liked the Green New Deal. And no, you’re not reading climate fiction. This…Your state’s air pollution might be coming from another state’s power plants
Nov 22, 2019, 3:55 am By Miyo McGinn
Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in the United States in 2014,…PG&E failed California. Here’s how the state could turn things around.
Nov 21, 2019, 3:58 am By Nathanael Johnson
For the last 150 years, Pacific Gas & Electric has been playing political hardball to maintain its…What are the most sustainable vegetables?
Nov 21, 2019, 3:03 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, I want to know which grains and vegetables are most sustainably grown. Should I eat…Climate change gets a single question at the fifth Democratic debate
Nov 21, 2019, 12:20 am By Zoya Teirstein
Ten Democratic candidates for president took the stage in Atlanta to talk impeachment, health care,…Candidates are finally talking about environmental justice. Advocates want more than words.
Nov 20, 2019, 3:12 pm By Yvette Cabrera
Those keeping tabs on the Democratic presidential primary — which has its fifth debate Wednesday…Marie Kondo made us get rid of everything. Now she’s selling us crystals.
Nov 20, 2019, 1:50 pm By Emily Pontecorvo
On New Year’s Day 2019, the Netflix-viewing public awoke to the release of the documentary series…Cement has a carbon problem. Here are some concrete solutions.
Nov 20, 2019, 3:58 am By Maddie Stone
The biggest carbon polluters don’t always advertise that fact loudly. In fact, one of the…
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