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
6:39pm 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
6:11pm 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
6:09pm 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
4:46pm 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’
9:52am 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
6:00am 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”
Mon 4:55pm By Justine Calma
The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is facing what the New York Times has called “a…Mozambique floods cover more ground than NYC, Chicago, DC, and Boston — combined
Mon 4:14pm By Eric Holthaus
Post-flood satellite images of Mozambique show that Cyclone Idai submerged about 835 square miles of…The climate movement needs more people like me
Mon 5:30am By Isra Hirsi
Isra Hirsi is a 16-year-old from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is one of the cofounders and…The most genius chocolate chip cookie recipe is also vegan
Mar 24, 2019, 7:00 am By Kristen Miglore
This post originally appeared in Genius Recipes on Food52. World, this is the genius chocolate chip…The problem with the ‘warm’ in global warming: Most like it hot
Mar 23, 2019, 7:00 am By Julia Sklar
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Katrina, the BP spill, now Houston: This consulting firm keeps coming under fire
Mar 22, 2019, 6:31 pm By Naveena SadasivamA crude oil spill during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A coal ash spill in Tennessee in 2008. The BP…Report: Climate change could make insurance too expensive for most people
Mar 22, 2019, 6:04 pm By Arthur Neslen
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Terrifying map shows all the parts of America that might soon flood
Mar 22, 2019, 4:26 pm By Eric Holthaus
The record-breaking flooding disaster in the Midwest is just beginning. On Thursday, the National…
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