Volvo is the first mainstream automaker to say ‘Goodbye gas, hello electric.’
Jul 5, 2017, 3:42 pm By Manola Secaira
The car company announced on Wednesday that it plans to launch only electric models from 2019…The world’s biggest economies spent four times as much on fossil fuels than on clean energy.
Jul 5, 2017, 3:12 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantThe G20 (the richest countries on the planet) invested mostly in polluting energy between 2013 and…Science deniers aren’t happy with the likely candidate for the EPA’s No. 2 spot
Jul 5, 2017, 2:29 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Listen to these podcasts if you want to keep up the fight against climate change.
Jul 3, 2017, 5:47 pm By Manola Secaira
American history is built on two things: fighting for what’s important, and lying around consuming…Happy birthday, America — we got you some premonitions.
Jul 3, 2017, 5:15 pm By Eve AndrewsAnd they come from two extremely smart — if surly — gentlemen. Renowned physicist Stephen…Trump administration’s energy plans just faced another loss.
Jul 3, 2017, 4:31 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency’s…It’s tine to take America’s plastic fork problem seriously
Jul 3, 2017, 3:56 pm By Jenny Luna
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…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.
Jun 28, 2017, 5:19 pm 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.
Jun 28, 2017, 4:34 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The EPA administrator turned to semantics in the Trump administration’s latest move to undermine…
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