Costa Rica got 98 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2016.
Jan 3, 2017, 6:34 pm By Heather Smith
Or so says the Costa Rican Electricity Institute. That’s not a fluke — the country generated…A snarky 1917 article was totally sure we’d be over coal by 2017.
Jan 3, 2017, 5:10 pm By Kate Yoder
America was in the throes of a coal shortage with the cold of winter on its way. People were…This plant in India transforms CO2 into baking soda.
Jan 3, 2017, 4:31 pm By Sabrina Imbler
Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals promises to prevent emissions of 60,000 tons of CO2 a year by…States will be the places to watch on climate in 2017.
Jan 2, 2017, 6:19 am By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Especially because there will likely be a big, federal-sized hole in climate ambition. California,…2017 will likely get the “not-as-hot-as-last-year” award
Jan 2, 2017, 6:00 am By Andrea Thompson
2016 capped off the hottest year on record for the third straight year, a remarkable streak fueled…What’s going to happen in 2017? Experts weigh in. (It’s us — we’re the experts.)
Jan 1, 2017, 6:06 am By Katie Herzog
As we end a year that’s been good for the nation’s obituary writers and no one else, it’s…E.U. loophole counts wood energy as “carbon neutral.” It’s not.
Jan 1, 2017, 6:00 am By John Upton
As American foresters ramp up logging to meet the growing demand for wood pellets by power plants on…There’s a huge migrant crisis in Hawaii you’ve probably never heard of
Dec 31, 2016, 7:30 am By Aaron Wiener
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Here are the best nerdy infographics of the year.
Dec 30, 2016, 6:27 pm By Heather Smith
The most epic was inventor Saul Griffith’s opus-in-the-form-of-a-website, Energy Literacy, which…2016 was a great year for wind and solar, even if nobody noticed.
Dec 30, 2016, 4:55 pm By Heather Smith
Renewable energy’s gains this year were incremental and unglamorous, so they had a hard time…Here’s some of the best environmental writing of 2016, according to us.
Dec 30, 2016, 6:06 am By Emma Foehringer Merchant
We can’t give a definitive shortlist of green journalism — but we can point you to a…Here’s some of the best climate writing of 2016, according to us.
Dec 30, 2016, 6:06 am By Emma Foehringer MerchantWe can’t give a definitive shortlist on environmental journalism — but we can offer a…What’s the most overlooked but important issue of the year?
Dec 29, 2016, 5:11 pm By Ben Adler
The crisis of affordable housing (after climate change, natch). It’s not for lack of local media…Trump would be giving up a big presidential power if he abolished new national monuments.
Dec 29, 2016, 4:19 pm By Sabrina Imbler
Yesterday, President Obama designated over 1.6 million acres in Utah and Nevada as the Bears Ears…Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is now pretending not to know about climate change.
Dec 29, 2016, 3:37 pm By Katie Herzog
The state agency charged with protecting resources endangered by climate change has quietly purged…Germany’s clean energy revolution meets the “Trump effect”
Dec 29, 2016, 3:26 pm By Aaron Wiener
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…It’s been an excellent year for one thing: climate doom infographics.
Dec 29, 2016, 3:17 pm By Heather Smith
I’m not sure whether that’s because there’s an infographic Renaissance happening across this…Fracking causes noise pollution that could be harmful to your health.
Dec 29, 2016, 3:03 pm By Katie Herzog
The consequences of fracking can include higher cancer risk for workers, groundwater…Mexico’s climate migrants are already coming to the United States
Dec 29, 2016, 9:06 am By Amy McDermott
In December 1997, Nadia Flores-Yeffal awoke early in a small town in the state of Guanajuato, in the…What’s the most eco-friendly dishwasher cycle?
Dec 29, 2016, 5:55 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, With regards to dishwasher cycle times vs. power and water usage, is it better to run…
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