The ultimate Ask Umbra guide to a red, white, and green Fourth of July.
Jul 3, 2017, 12:42 pm By Ask Umbra®
Explosives. Plastic cups. Barbecues. Hot dogs. Independence Day can be a dazzling carnival of guilty…How America can declare independence from dirty energy
Jul 3, 2017, 5:01 am By Grist staffWhat’s it going to take to win American independence from dirty energy? The Fourth of July seems…As the rich move away from disaster zones, the poor are left behind
Jul 1, 2017, 6:00 am By Leah Platt Boustan
Every year, major earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes occur. These natural disasters disrupt daily…Oil companies are just not that into Keystone XL.
Jun 30, 2017, 3:29 pm By Manola SecairaThe pipeline’s operator, TransCanada, is struggling to track down oil producers and refiners who…Who needs peer review when you can Pruitt review climate science?
Jun 30, 2017, 3:25 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has introduced an initiative to review mainstream climate science,…As if U.S. inequality wasn’t bad enough, climate change is making it worse
Jun 30, 2017, 2:11 pm By Oliver Milman
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of…A drought in the Dakotas spells trouble for the U.S. wheat harvest.
Jun 30, 2017, 12:53 pm By Nikhil SwaminathanFarmers in the Upper Midwest got a big dose of bad news Thursday: The extent of the region’s…Tropical diseases are moving north, and the poor are the ones getting sick.
Jun 29, 2017, 3:44 pm By Nathanael JohnsonData keeps coming in suggesting that climate change will worsen inequality, and a well told story,…If Trump can’t handle the Paris accord, he’ll hate this bold idea
Jun 29, 2017, 3:32 pm By Eric Holthaus
In perhaps the most significant call to action written by scientists and policy experts since the…Antarctica is starting to go ice free — with some interesting consequences.
Jun 29, 2017, 3:24 pm By Manola SecairaA new Nature study says that climate change will bring about a 25 percent increase in its ice-free…Sunny summer skies are driving ice melt in Greenland
Jun 29, 2017, 1:52 pm By Andrea Thompson
In the past two decades, the Greenland ice sheet has become the biggest single contributor to rising…Want to stop wildfires? Try logging, says Utah official.
5:19pm By Manola Secaira
Republican State Rep. Mike Noel said this week that “tree huggers” were to blame for a major…Scott Pruitt muddies up the Clean Water Act.
4:34pm By Nathanael Johnson
The EPA administrator turned to semantics in the Trump administration’s latest move to undermine…Trump’s comments to tribal leaders will make you scratch your head.
4:25pm By Kate Yoder
Has President Trump been reading his own executive orders? Given what he said to Native American…1,400 mayors: If Trump won’t lead on climate action, we will
1:27pm By Dominique Mosbergen
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…A state agency filed a complaint against the security company that tracked and targeted DAPL opponents.
Tue 8:29pm By Grist staffNorth Dakota’s Private Investigative and Security Board says TigerSwan has been operating in the…A Czech nuclear plant staged a bikini contest to hire its next intern.
Tue 4:45pm By Kate Yoder
An actual swimsuit contest pitted 10 high school grads against each other as they posed for photos…Humans have been exploiting the world for so long that there’s a museum about it.
Tue 4:32pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
The new Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, Calif., explores “the ideology, history, and legacy of…A top scientist “felt bullied” to downplay facts by EPA chief of staff.
Tue 3:30pm By Manola SecairaRecently revealed emails show that Deborah Swackhamer on the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors…6 million people in China went a week without fossil fuels
Tue 1:39pm By James West
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…
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