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?
Nov 11, 2019, 3:58 am 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
Nov 11, 2019, 3:56 am 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
Nov 10, 2019, 3:47 pm 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…How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new ‘age of fire’
Nov 6, 2019, 3:58 am By Kate YoderThe Amazon, Alaska, and of course California — more of the world is going up in flames, and with…Why New Delhi’s air is always so toxic this time of year
Nov 5, 2019, 1:46 pm By Miyo McGinn
India’s capital city of New Delhi has been making headlines this week for its abysmal air quality…11,000 scientists say that the ‘climate emergency’ is here
Nov 5, 2019, 10:01 am By Miyo McGinn
More than 11,000 scientists declared a climate emergency today in — where else — an article…Meet the MythBuster for climate change
Nov 5, 2019, 3:58 am By Nathanael JohnsonBack in 2008, Stéphane Dion, the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, asked the economist Mark…The irony of blaming inhalers for climate change
Nov 4, 2019, 1:28 pm By Emily Pontecorvo
Does individual action matter when it comes to climate change? It’s an age-old debate. Arguably,…These shops will sell you shampoo, but it’s BYOB — bring your own bottle
Nov 4, 2019, 3:50 am By Cara Giaimo
Glance too quickly at 89A Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you might think it’s a…
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