The coal industry is still declining, so Trump is considering a bailout.
Aug 10, 2017, 5:22 pm By Manola Secaira
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice — a recently rebranded Republican and coal and real estate…Canadians have eaten five tons of GMO salmon.
Aug 10, 2017, 4:20 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The news has alarmed anti-GMO groups, who point out that Drake’s people may not have known they…A Swiss town wants to save their local glacier with artificial snow.
Aug 10, 2017, 2:03 pm By Amelia Urry
Pontresina residents enlisted a retired glaciologist, Hans Oerlemans, to help them save a nearby…This Hawaiian island is the future of energy
Aug 10, 2017, 1:35 pm By Daniel Penner
original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlC76fw5KLc Kauai might be a tiny island on the map,…Trump is going easy on polluters.
Aug 10, 2017, 1:27 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
According to a new study from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project, the current…Greenland, the land of ice and snow, is burning
Aug 9, 2017, 5:40 pm By Eric Holthaus
This is going to sound weird, but there’s a wildfire right now in west Greenland. You know, that…As transit ridership dips, people flock L.A.’s new train lines.
Aug 9, 2017, 4:37 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The city of freeways is building light rail, and passengers are hopping on board. We’ve seen a…It’s been flooding a lot lately and new research might explain why.
Aug 9, 2017, 3:21 pm By Manola Secaira
It turns out that sea level along North Carolina’s coast south of Cape Hatteras has been rising…Trump actually wants to enforce an environmental rule. A court says he can’t.
Aug 9, 2017, 2:43 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
On Tuesday, a D.C. appeals court struck down an Obama-era restriction on the use of…Death Valley had the hottest month ever measured on Earth
Aug 9, 2017, 2:35 pm By Elizabeth Shogren
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of…One year after the Great Flood, Louisiana’s most vulnerable cope with the losses
Aug 9, 2017, 6:00 am By John Upton
The summertime rain that usually pounds Louisiana in fits and starts had been falling for a day and…The New York Times published a leaked governmental memo on climate change — eventually.
Aug 8, 2017, 4:18 pm By Eric Holthaus
The congressionally mandated report compiles the recent work of tens of thousands of scientists from…An art installation about rising seas sank into a Philly river.
Aug 8, 2017, 3:56 pm By Kate Yoder
A floating houseboat meant to inspire conversation around climate change met a watery death on…West Virginia’s governor wants a new subsidy for coal.
Aug 8, 2017, 3:20 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Jim Justice swapped parties in a highly publicized rally with President Trump. Now, he has a novel…This Hawaiian mayor is scoring touchdowns for clean energy
Aug 8, 2017, 8:05 am By Amelia Urry
Bernard Carvalho might be the least jaded politician in the United States of America right now.…Welcome to Paradise: Batteries Now Included
Aug 8, 2017, 3:00 am By Amelia Urry
When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost…The real hero of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ isn’t Al Gore
Aug 7, 2017, 6:21 pm By Eric Holthaus
I’ll be honest, I greeted the prospect of a new Al Gore movie, more than 10 years after the…A “mini-Katrina” flooded parts of New Orleans.
Aug 7, 2017, 5:36 pm By Eric Holthaus
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in one neighborhood on Saturday during a rainstorm so severe that it…Apparently, “weather extremes” is the new “climate change.”
Aug 7, 2017, 4:42 pm By Manola Secaira
At least, that’s what the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is telling its employees. In…We know more about other planets’ moons than our own ocean floor
Aug 7, 2017, 4:03 pm By Paul Tullis
This story was originally published by Oceans Deeply. For important news about seafloor mapping,…
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