Atlantic City can’t afford to roll the dice on sea-level rise
Feb 23, 2019, 7:00 am By Claire Elise Thompson
Atlantic City, the once-proud gambling and resort destination, is treading water. In 2017, it was…Meet the 12-year-old activist taking politicians to task over climate change
Feb 23, 2019, 7:00 am By Jessica Kutz
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the…A bunch of kids confronted Senator Dianne Feinstein over the Green New Deal
Feb 22, 2019, 7:19 pm By Zoya Teirstein
It’s becoming increasingly clear that kids, not grownups, are driving the global conversation…Can hamburgers survive the Green New Deal? The facts behind Trump and Ocasio-Cortez’s latest beef
Feb 22, 2019, 5:39 pm By Nathanael Johnson
There’s been an awful lot of talk about cow farts and the Green New Deal, despite the fact that…‘Moment of reckoning:’ U.S. cities burn recyclables after China bans imports
Feb 22, 2019, 11:00 am By Oliver Milman
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Your ultra-soft toilet paper is ultra-bad for the planet
Feb 22, 2019, 6:00 am By Zoe Sayler
Down in the dumps about the environmental impacts of toilet paper? Flush your worries away: the…It’s time for California to let some of its thirsty farmland go
Feb 21, 2019, 6:25 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Some half a million acres of the most productive agricultural region on the planet —…Trump is considering a fervent climate denier to lead a White House panel assessing climate change risk
Feb 21, 2019, 5:39 pm By Marisa Endicott
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…No deal in sight as fuel standard talks between EPA and California stall out
Feb 21, 2019, 2:22 pm By Justine Calma
The Golden State has long set the gold standards for fuel efficiency and automobile emissions.…Shipping industry takes a page from bitcoin to clean up its act
Feb 21, 2019, 1:52 pm By Maria Gallucci
A 960-foot-long freighter crossed the Atlantic Ocean last week running on a mix of biofuels and oil,…I love taking long-distance trains. Here’s why I’m thrilled Amtrak might cut them back.
Feb 20, 2019, 7:16 pm By Eric HolthausAmtrak is planning a major restructuring of its national network, which could finally make…New report looks at the full impact of plastic on our health
Feb 20, 2019, 2:48 pm By Paola Rosa-Aquino
It’s no secret that plastics are, well, not ideal. Do you know how long it takes for one of those…How can I have a wedding registry that isn’t totally wasteful?
Feb 20, 2019, 6:06 am By Eve Andrews
Q. I’m getting married and we have recently started setting up a registry. Are there ways to make…Paris agreement has gone up in smoke, new paper says
Feb 20, 2019, 5:59 am By Nathanael Johnson
Forget about us only having “12 years to reverse climate change” — the slogan picked up from a…Why you shouldn’t panic
Feb 19, 2019, 7:24 pm By Eric Holthaus
This post is the latest from our weekly Climate of Courage newsletter. Sign up to get more of this…RIP Wallace Broecker, the scientist who changed the way we think about the climate
Feb 19, 2019, 7:24 pm By Kate Yoder
Wallace Broecker, the geochemist who popularized the phrase “global warming,” passed away on…Bernie Sanders, the godfather of the Green New Deal, announces presidential run
Feb 19, 2019, 6:15 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Bernie Sanders announced he’s running for president on Tuesday, confirming rumors that have been…The results are in, and January was one of the warmest in all of recorded history
Feb 19, 2019, 4:56 pm By Eric Holthaus
January 2019 was the third-warmest January in the history of global weather recordkeeping, according…‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in
Feb 19, 2019, 5:57 am By Kate Yoder
Prepare yourself for grisly descriptions of how the body breaks down in overwhelming heat,…How sci-fi could help solve climate change
Feb 18, 2019, 6:00 am By Zoe Sayler
As early as 1905, nearly 50 years before the first photovoltaic cell was put to use, the women of…
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