This is Trump’s chance to tank the solar industry
Sep 22, 2017, 7:03 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Maria has plunged Puerto Rico into a humanitarian emergency
Sep 22, 2017, 6:19 pm By Eric Holthaus
The rain and winds may be over, but Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico is only just beginning. The…Hurricanes keep bringing blackouts. Clean energy could keep the lights on.
Sep 22, 2017, 4:24 pm By Amelia Urry
When Hurricane Irma scraped its way up the Florida peninsula, it left the state’s electrical grid…EPA employees eagerly leak documents from their mandatory anti-leaking class.
Sep 22, 2017, 3:59 pm By Kate Yoder
This week, workers at the federal agency attended a one-hour training course on how to prevent leaks…Here’s how the avocado-toast bubble will burst.
Sep 22, 2017, 2:27 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Avocado prices are shooting through the stratosphere. They’re so expensive that a real-estate…Adrian Grenier, viral turtles, and Seattle’s big ban: Welcome to the wild world of plastic straws
Sep 22, 2017, 2:04 pm By Eve Andrews
Adrian Grenier is not coming to lunch. This is the gist of the text that I receive from the former…Not enough states are taking climate action. Time to make some calls!
Sep 21, 2017, 5:24 pm By Ask Umbra®It’s Climate Week in New York!!! A host of CEOs and government officials — including Washington…Climate solutions need cold, hard cash. This group aims to make those investments easier.
Sep 21, 2017, 4:11 pm By Amelia Urry
“If you just look at the energy sector, we need about a trillion a year,” Barbara Buchner says…Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with record-breaking rains.
Sep 21, 2017, 3:49 pm By Kate Yoder
The most powerful hurricane to hit the island in nearly a century brought ravaging winds and…Trump is deluded if he thinks he can negotiate a new, better Paris agreement
Sep 20, 2017, 8:19 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of…Can we still avoid the worst climate change? Maybe.
Sep 20, 2017, 5:55 pm By Amelia Urry
A new study in Nature Geoscience shook the climate science world by suggesting that we may have more…‘Mother!’ is a climate change parable, and it sounds terrifying.
Sep 20, 2017, 4:41 pm By Cody Permenter
No movie this year has generated more intrigue than director Darren Aronofsky’s horror flick…Mexico City was built on land that’s prone to severe earthquake damage.
Sep 20, 2017, 4:11 pm By Kate Yoder
Less than two weeks after the second-biggest earthquake in Mexico’s history, a second quake hit…Harvey, Irma, Maria: This is the hurricane season scientists expected … and feared
Sep 20, 2017, 1:48 pm By Eric HolthausAfter multiple intense hurricane landfalls this month, the scenes from the Caribbean have been…Trump’s policies put the most vulnerable Americans in danger.
Sep 19, 2017, 4:26 pm By Nikhil SwaminathanA new report from the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, a group of academics and…Houston was built for cars. What happens when Harvey destroys 250,000 vehicles?
Sep 19, 2017, 4:11 pm By Kate Yoder
Three weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with the worst rainfall event in U.S. history, many…While hurricanes struck, Scott Pruitt was up to some interesting activities
Sep 18, 2017, 7:08 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of…Hurricane Maria poses a catastrophic threat to the Caribbean
Sep 18, 2017, 6:46 pm By Eric Holthaus
The already miserable hurricane season is about to get worse, as Hurricane Maria barrels toward a…California rewrites the GOP’s climate playbook
Sep 18, 2017, 6:18 pm By Nathanael Johnson
For the past decade, Democrats hoping to pass a big climate law have played Charlie Brown to the…World hunger rises after decades of decline.
Sep 18, 2017, 5:20 pm By Kate YoderThe number of hungry people in the world grew to 815 million in 2016. That’s up by 38 million from…
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