Another side effect of Puerto Rico’s power problems: Scientists struggle to do their work.
1:57pm 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.
6:00am 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.
Wed 6:32pm 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.
Wed 5:44pm 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.
Wed 4:29pm 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.
Wed 3:56pm 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…Rick Perry’s Department of Energy really, really wants to prove that regulations kill coal.
Nov 14, 2017, 3:28 pm By Amelia UrryThe only problem: That’s not what the data shows. In “the early days of all of the Obama…It’s so easy to compost. So why am I still not doing it?
Nov 14, 2017, 7:06 am By Eve Andrews
I opened the Umbra inbox to find a question from our new intern and recent Seattle transplant, Zoya:…Cory Booker talks about the need to tackle ‘corporate villainy’
Nov 13, 2017, 6:42 pm By Brentin Mock
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…As new pipeline battles ramp up, the DOJ vows to prosecute activists who stop construction.
Nov 13, 2017, 5:16 pm By Justine CalmaThe Justice Department’s edict comes after 84 Congressional representatives submitted a letter to…Singing protesters interrupt a White House presentation at COP23.
Nov 13, 2017, 4:56 pm By Zoya TeirsteinThe Trump administration gathered a group of mostly fossil-fuel executives for a panel promoting…Sean Hannity fans are destroying Keurig machines for all the wrong reasons.
Nov 13, 2017, 4:54 pm By Cody Permenter
Conservatives posted videos of themselves smashing, breaking, and pulverizing the popular coffee…Bad news: Global emissions are on the rise again.
Nov 13, 2017, 3:35 pm By Eric Holthaus
A multi-year period of global economic growth and stable carbon emissions, heralded as a potential…John Kerry is plotting a renewable energy future … starting in Vietnam
Nov 10, 2017, 7:10 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Vietnam wants to build a massive number of coal plants. But a former United States secretary of…The Feds are leaving Puerto Rico — and offering to take Maria survivors with them.
Nov 10, 2017, 3:43 pm By Justine CalmaMore than a quarter of the 15,000 federal troops deployed to the U.S. territory in the wake of the…La Niña is here, so 2017 won’t be the warmest year on record.
Nov 10, 2017, 2:57 pm By Eric Holthaus
The cool phase of the planet’s most important weather pattern began during October, say…Inside a Texas prison during Hurricane Harvey
Nov 10, 2017, 2:31 pm By Nathalie Baptiste
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power AGAIN after a line repaired by Whitefish fails.
Nov 9, 2017, 8:15 pm By Kate Yoder
Electricity that had already been restored to hundreds of thousands of people cut out on Thursday,…
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