Are farmers setting the Amazon ablaze in support of Bolsonaro?
Aug 22, 2019, 3:35 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Farmers are reportedly setting fire to the Amazon rainforest to show support for Brazilian President…Bernie Sanders’ ‘Green New Deal’ looks like a trillion bucks (OK, 16 trillion)
Aug 22, 2019, 1:23 pm By Paola Rosa-Aquino
Washington Governor Jay Inslee vacated the role of “climate candidate” in the 2020 Democratic…What’s so wrong with bottled water, anyway?
Aug 22, 2019, 6:06 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, Why are bottled water companies targeted more severely than other types of beverages?…Trees are AC for cities. She wants everyone to benefit
Aug 22, 2019, 3:55 am By Zoe Sayler
How do you keep cities cool as the world gets hotter? It’s sort of a no-brainer: Less concrete,…8-year-old activist stumps for a climate debate
Aug 22, 2019, 3:50 am By Havana Chapman-Edwards
This column is adapted from a speech that Chapman-Edwards gave during a sit-in organized by the…Julián Castro’s Trump-defying plan to save endangered species
Aug 21, 2019, 1:16 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Hold your horses, because presidential candidate Julián Castro just came out with an animal welfare…Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem
Aug 21, 2019, 3:59 am By Maddie Stone
Earlier this month, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report…It’s official: Parts of california are too wildfire-prone to insure
Aug 21, 2019, 3:58 am By Nathanael Johnson
California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its…Wait, melting glaciers are helping capture carbon?
Aug 20, 2019, 4:28 pm By Matt Simon
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Why FEMA isn’t prepared for the next major U.S. disaster
Aug 20, 2019, 3:58 am By Paola Rosa-Aquino
According to every climate prediction model, our rapidly warming world is slated to experience more…Here’s why Iceland is mourning a dead glacier
Aug 19, 2019, 3:23 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Some 100 people gathered at the top of a volcano in Iceland on Sunday for an unusual funeral. The…‘The next Flint,’ and America’s problem with lead in its water
Aug 19, 2019, 3:58 am By Molly Enking
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years…In Detroit, ‘revolutionary’ mapping could help residents with asthma
Aug 18, 2019, 3:58 am By Lucas Joel
This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The climate-inspired detente on the Colorado
Aug 16, 2019, 5:04 pm By Nathanael Johnson
For the first time in history, low water levels on the Colorado River have forced Arizona, Nevada,…Greenland’s moment in the sun goes beyond Trump’s real estate interests
Aug 16, 2019, 4:48 pm By Paola Rosa-Aquino
Greenland is sooo hot right now. And we’re not just talking literally (though, yeah, that’s also…The Trump administration tried to bury a climate study on … rice?
Aug 16, 2019, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the…We’ve got another ozone problem, and it’s not what you think
Aug 15, 2019, 3:59 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV…A romance novel about Hurricane Maria exists. Here’s why.
Aug 15, 2019, 3:58 am By Paola Rosa-Aquino
Nothing puts a damper on one’s romantic life like a Category 5 hurricane. That’s just one of the…How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are.
Aug 15, 2019, 3:57 am By Kate Yoder
Deadly heat waves, violent downpours, wildfires that seem to get more intense every year — the…Will I be able to tell when we’ve reached a climate tipping point?
Aug 15, 2019, 3:56 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, What is the full list of climate tipping points for melting ice, permafrost, etc.?…
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