Doomsday on Ice
Nov 21, 2017, 7:00 am By Eric Holthaus
In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip of South…Lin-Manuel Miranda and thousands more marched on Washington to call attention to Puerto Rico.
Nov 20, 2017, 4:59 pm By Justine Calma
Organizers of Sunday’s rally outlined three calls to action for legislators: Eliminate the Jones…Tesla’s going big — like, 18-wheeler big.
Nov 20, 2017, 4:34 pm By Amelia UrryThe Tesla Semi, unveiled last week, is a big, shiny sign of a changing industry. Like the rest of…Nebraska gives the green light to Keystone XL — with a twist.
Nov 20, 2017, 12:15 pm By Darby Minow SmithIn a long-awaited decision, the Nebraska Public Service Commission announced its vote Monday to…Miles away from the U.N. climate talks, local movements demonstrate what’s really at stake
Nov 17, 2017, 5:04 pm By Justine Calma
Atop a foothill on the southern edge of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, an indigenous community has…You can blame a “medicane” for this week’s deadly flooding in Greece.
Nov 17, 2017, 4:18 pm By Zoya TeirsteinNope, a “medicane” is not a new type of health insurance. It’s a Mediterranean hurricane —…You can blame a ‘medicane’ for this week’s deadly flooding in Greece.
Nov 17, 2017, 4:18 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Nope, a “medicane” is not a new type of health insurance. It’s a Mediterranean hurricane —…Nebraska’s Keystone XL decision won’t hinge on Thursday’s 210,000-gallon spill.
Nov 17, 2017, 4:04 pm By Kate YoderOil gushed out of the Keystone pipeline in rural South Dakota on Thursday, 30 miles west of the…It’s OK that Democrats don’t have a national climate policy
Nov 16, 2017, 6:41 pm By Eric Holthaus
More than a year after the election of Donald Trump, the opposition Democratic Party still hasn’t…Washington state gets another shot at the nation’s first carbon tax
Nov 16, 2017, 6:05 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Security firm TigerSwan was paid to build a conspiracy lawsuit against DAPL protesters.
Nov 16, 2017, 5:06 pm By Justine CalmaEnergy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, brought on the paramilitary…The U.N. climate talks have a gender gap. Women plan to fix it.
Nov 16, 2017, 4:45 pm By Zoya TeirsteinSince women are disproportionately affected by climate change, it’s about time they get a bigger…Another side effect of Puerto Rico’s power problems: Scientists struggle to do their work.
Nov 16, 2017, 1:57 pm By Amelia UrryNearly two months after Hurricane Maria, public health researchers in Puerto Rico are limited by the…The shipping industry needs to clean up its act. Here’s where it can start.
Nov 16, 2017, 6:00 am By Maria Gallucci
Just north of the U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, a group of shipping industry leaders gathered…Jerry Brown said some kinda weird things on his Europe tour.
Nov 15, 2017, 6:32 pm By Eve Andrews
The California governor is currently touring Europe to talk about his pet cause: climate action.…California may use 50 percent renewable electricity by 2020, a decade ahead of schedule.
Nov 15, 2017, 5:44 pm By Nathanael Johnson
While Trump tries to push the United States back toward fossil fuels, California, the seventh…Puerto Rico JUST met the halfway mark to restoring power … then the lights went out again.
Nov 15, 2017, 4:29 pm By Kate YoderOn Wednesday morning, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló tweeted that power was back to 50…African American communities are being hit hard by oil and gas pollution.
Nov 15, 2017, 3:56 pm By Justine Calma
A new report co-authored by the Clean Air Task Force and the NAACP finds that black Americans are…Geoengineering’s unintended consequences: Hurricanes and food shortages
Nov 14, 2017, 5:55 pm By Matt Simon
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Climate change makes hurricanes like Harvey more likely.
Nov 14, 2017, 4:18 pm By Zoya TeirsteinTexas is still recovering from Harvey, a Category 4 storm that dumped 60 inches of rain over parts…
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