TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline was flailing. Trump just revived it.
Mar 29, 2019, 7:25 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Just a couple of weeks ago, it looked like TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline was in hot water.…ACLU sues South Dakota over new pipeline protester law
Mar 29, 2019, 3:42 pm By Rachel RamirezEven if you don’t live in South Dakota, you could be held liable for supporting pipeline…Dear white people: We need to talk about your diet’s carbon footprint
Mar 29, 2019, 3:11 pm By Paola Rosa-AquinoWhen it comes to emissions, our food choices carry some serious weight. And according to a new…C-SPAN’s swamp creature unmasked! We talk to the activist in the confirmation meeting clip
Mar 29, 2019, 2:17 pm By Eric Holthaus
On Thursday morning, Irene Kim nervously filed into the Senate confirmation hearing of David…Under The Grid: Detroit goes full-on solar in this fictional future
Mar 29, 2019, 1:02 pm By Andrew Dana Hudson
This story originally appeared in The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, published by…Why can’t I stress about climate change like I do about everything else?
Mar 29, 2019, 6:06 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, I know that climate change is happening and doing something about it should be a…Congress wants to know why the incoming Interior Chief is keeping his calendar secret
Mar 28, 2019, 7:15 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Climate change could push tropical diseases to Alaska, according to a new study
Mar 28, 2019, 2:52 pm By Eric Holthaus
Nearly a billion people could be newly at risk of tropical diseases like dengue fever and Zika as…Cheaper electricity, dirtier air? Black communities navigate a tricky relationship with their polluters
Mar 28, 2019, 7:01 am By Paola Rosa-Aquino
On a chilly Saturday morning, a large group of mostly black and brown teens and college students…The vault holding humanity’s precious seeds is on thin ice
Mar 27, 2019, 6:41 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe Crop Trust — the organization tasked by the U.N. with preserving the world’s diversity of…So what did California do with that $1.4 billion in cap-and-trade money?
Mar 27, 2019, 2:18 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Think of California as a kind of green Robin Hood. For six years now, it has been taking money from…Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tears into Republicans painting Green New Deal as ‘elitist’
Mar 27, 2019, 2:00 pm By Inae Oh
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…As Houston choked on toxic fumes, Texas legislators targeted air quality programs
Mar 27, 2019, 9:00 am By Naveena SadasivamFor most of last week, Houstonians were dealing with the fallout from a chemical disaster. After…Coal, oil, and natural gas demand hits record high in 2018
Mar 26, 2019, 6:39 pm By Eric Holthaus
If the world is going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to halve greenhouse gas…The Senate’s Green New Deal debacle was revealing
Mar 26, 2019, 6:11 pm By Eric Holthaus
This post is the latest from our weekly Climate of Courage newsletter. Sign up to get more of this…The Green New Deal lost in the Senate, but it wasn’t necessarily a fail for Democrats
Mar 26, 2019, 6:09 pm By Justine CalmaA non-binding resolution for a Green New Deal failed to pass a procedural vote on the…Tauntauns, seahorses, and lotsa babies: Mike Lee trolls the Green New Deal
Mar 26, 2019, 4:46 pm By Nikhil Swaminathan
Senator Mike Lee of Utah gave a speech about the Green New Deal Tuesday morning on the floor of the…Fed official: Climate change is an ‘international market failure’
Mar 26, 2019, 9:52 am By Eric HolthausClimate change was already worrying enough — now a report from the U.S. central bank cautions that…This Bay Area entrepreneur is out to scramble the food system
Mar 26, 2019, 6:00 am By Zoe Sayler
In 2019, we’re pretty used to seeing meat substitutes that convincingly imitate the real thing.…Severe flooding at Pine Ridge Reservation “a humanitarian disaster”
Mar 25, 2019, 4:55 pm By Justine Calma
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is facing what the New York Times has called “a…
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