What would it mean to “modernize” the Endangered Species Act?
Feb 15, 2017, 4:23 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Nothing good, conservationists say, after a Senate Committee held a hearing on the topic on…Dumb management of fisheries costs us up to $83 billion a year.
Feb 15, 2017, 3:15 pm By Nathanael Johnson
That’s the main finding of a new World Bank report. And the people who fish for a living are…The West’s coal giant is closing way ahead of schedule
Feb 14, 2017, 6:25 pm By Jonathan Thompson
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of…About 700 species are already being hurt by climate change.
Feb 14, 2017, 5:20 pm By Cody Permenter
We’re not talking about a future threat, but harm that is very much happening right now, a new…The movement to divest from Dakota Access is growing, fast.
Feb 14, 2017, 2:36 pm By Sabrina Imbler
Seattle got things rolling on Feb. 7, when the city council voted to end a $3 billion contract with…Some Republican politicians really do like clean energy.
Feb 14, 2017, 2:32 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
A week after the buzzed about conservative Carbon Tax, a bipartisan group of 20 governors sent…Louisville is beating urban heat with the help of local faith communities
Feb 14, 2017, 2:19 pm By Laura Bliss
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…In California farm country, Trump’s deportation threat looms large
Feb 14, 2017, 7:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
You can chart Amadeo’s life journey by his clothes. He grew up poor in rural Mexico — “I…Paris Jackson gave the #NoDAPL movement a shout-out at the Grammys.
Feb 13, 2017, 5:46 pm By Cody Permenter
It only lasted a moment, but the daughter of the late Michael Jackson started her introduction…You can expect to see more Oroville-style dam disasters in our future.
Feb 13, 2017, 2:36 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
On Sunday, officials ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 Northern California residents with…FEMA’s disaster relief budget will be slashed if conservatives get their way
Feb 13, 2017, 1:28 pm By Nathalie Baptiste
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The CEO behind the Dakota Access Pipeline wants to talk country music, not oil
Feb 13, 2017, 7:00 am By John H. Richardson
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…ExxonMobil narrowly avoided catastrophe two years ago, and you never heard about it
Feb 11, 2017, 6:00 am By Jie Jenny Zou
It’s been nearly two years since Nadia Levine fielded the frantic calls — the first one from her…This young girl just wants to know if Congressman Jason Chaffetz believes in science.
Feb 10, 2017, 6:04 pm By Cody Permenter
At a heated town hall meeting in Utah this week, Hannah Bradshaw asked Chaffetz two simple…Sick of American politics? The would-be leader of France just invited you over.
Feb 10, 2017, 4:31 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Top presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has a message for the entrepreneurs, inventors, and…By 2045, some East Coast cities could flood 3 times a week
Feb 9, 2017, 8:00 pm By John Upton
The lawns of homes purchased this year in vast swaths of coastal America could regularly be…Wind power is beating the pants off of other renewables.
Feb 9, 2017, 6:34 pm By Amy McDermott
The industry is growing so fast it could become the largest source of renewable energy on both sides…Will Bill Nye’s Netflix show actually save the world? I mean, we’ll take anything right now.
Feb 9, 2017, 6:27 pm By Cody Permenter
A trailer for the Science Guy’s new series leaves no doubt that his endeavor will be as zany and…EPA enforcement office may be next on the Trump team’s hit list
Feb 9, 2017, 1:57 pm By Kate Sheppard
This story was originally published by the Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the…California is getting soaked right now, but farmland is still sinking due to lack of water.
Feb 8, 2017, 7:35 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
A NASA report released Wednesday found that land in one of California’s most productive…
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