Trump’s EPA just gave a controversial pesticide the green light
Jul 18, 2019, 7:04 pm By Zoya Teirstein
When the pesticide DDT was finally banned in 1972 (thanks, Rachel Carson!), chlorpyrifos took its…Scientists: Let’s just spray trillions of tons of snow on Antarctica?
Jul 18, 2019, 6:54 pm By Molly Enking
Human-made snow isn’t just good for allowing mediocre skiing conditions to continue well into May.…Are progressives working on a climate plan for 2021? You bet.
Jul 18, 2019, 4:15 pm By Zoya Teirstein
We’ve heard the 2020 Democratic candidates talk about how bad Donald Trump is for the environment:…One of the biggest climate threats is the most familiar: rain
Jul 18, 2019, 4:01 pm By Paola Rosa-Aquino
At least it wasn’t another Katrina. That’s the silver lining many people seemed to cling to in…How do I get my husband to care?
Jul 18, 2019, 6:06 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, How do you get someone — say, an apathetic husband — to care about and…Berkeley bans: straws, plastic bags — and now gas pipelines too
Jul 17, 2019, 7:27 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Environmentalists have cheered “valve turners” who illegally cut off oil and gas flows through…In Costa Rica, a startup builds a model ship for a cleaner future
Jul 17, 2019, 6:01 am By Maria Gallucci
In a remote stretch of Costa Rica, where towering trees give way to spindly mangroves, mornings…Representatives just debated drilling on federal lands and things got … strange
Jul 16, 2019, 7:49 pm By Zoya Teirstein
In April, Senator Elizabeth Warren was the first 2020 presidential candidate to propose banning oil…A new study predicts just how hot your hometown will feel by midcentury
Jul 16, 2019, 6:54 pm By Justine Calma
Residents of Harris County, Texas are no stranger to heat. The swampy Houston metro area averages…California’s fires are getting worse, and it isn’t just the lack of rakes
Jul 16, 2019, 4:17 pm By Nathanael Johnson
President Donald Trump recently doubled down on his idea that climate change played no part in…The first generation of electric airplanes is almost here
Jul 16, 2019, 7:00 am By Claire Elise Thompson
It’s no secret that the air travel industry has got some major problems. Aviation entrepreneur…As Amazon Prime Day orders roll in, U.S. workers walk out
8:03pm By Justine Calma
It’s Amazon Prime Day, but there’s a lot more to pay attention to than the deals. On the first…These scientists found 2,500 years of economic history frozen in ice
4:10pm By Miyo McGinn
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to guess that the Black Death — the plague that killed…The big blue gap in the Green New Deal
7:00am By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
In February, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution…Mind the gap: Lead, mercury, asbestos, and differences in IQ
5:54am By Naveena Sadasivam
Decades before Freddie Gray died in police custody in 2015, he lived in a dilapidated house in the…Meet the guy swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Sun 7:20am By Catharine Smith
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Massive toxic algae blooms predicted in Lake Erie and Gulf of Mexico
Jul 13, 2019, 7:50 am By Tom Philpott
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Binge-watching and porn are draining the planet’s battery
Jul 13, 2019, 6:00 am By Molly EnkingWhen it comes to climate change, there can be a lot of hand-wringing and confusion on the part of…Your city probably won’t feel like itself in 30 years
Jul 12, 2019, 2:49 pm By Justine Calma
Even brief variations in a city’s seasonal weather can totally throw entire metro areas into…What shapes your beliefs about the climate crisis? It’s not just left vs. right.
Jul 12, 2019, 7:13 am By Kate YoderUnless you’ve lost your home to a super-charged hurricane, evacuated from wildfire country, or…
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