We’re not officially in the Anthropocene yet, because geologists move almost as slowly as geology.
Aug 31, 2016, 6:06 am By Amelia UrryIt’s taking the international geological community a really long time to formally acknowledge the…As if running weren’t awful enough, a 5k has an added layer of misery: coal dust.
Aug 31, 2016, 5:25 am By Katie HerzogThe 5th-annual Williamson, W.V. Coal Dust Run is sort of a color run where participants end up…Forest fires may be natural, but that doesn’t make them popular
Aug 30, 2016, 6:36 pm By Rachel Monroe
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…This playground encourages kids to use tools, get dirty, and let their imaginations run wild
Aug 30, 2016, 4:13 pm By Ben Adler
The newly opened play:groundNYC on New York City’s Governors Island is well-hidden. On my first…California has a lot of kinks to work out on its ambitious new climate goal.
Aug 30, 2016, 3:07 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantLast week, the state passed SB 32, new climate change legislation that’s a win…Surprise! Creating barriers to the abortion pill actually just ends up hurting women.
Aug 30, 2016, 2:02 pm By Eve AndrewsIn 2011, the Ohio Supreme Court implemented FDA rules that made it more difficult for doctors to…The American pika is disappearing — and you only care because it’s cute.
Aug 30, 2016, 11:41 am By Cody Permenter
New research in the Journal of Mammalogy adds to the heap of bad news for climate change’s most…Here’s why a less cloudy future is a big problem
Aug 30, 2016, 4:01 am By Jesse Nicholsoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFdlGurr0I When it comes to climate change…Anti-fracking activists hit a roadblock in Colorado
Aug 29, 2016, 4:38 pm By Ben Adler
Two anti-fracking initiatives will not be on the ballot in Colorado this November, the Colorado…Climate skeptics and climate deniers are not the same thing, science says.
Aug 29, 2016, 4:20 pm By Rebecca LeberIn an open-access Journal of Social and Political Psychology paper published this month, four…Citizen scientists are taking it upon themselves to confront America’s lead problem.
Aug 29, 2016, 1:58 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantAfter blood tests in Flint, Mich., revealed elevated lead levels in the city’s water, Republicans…Solar is nearly 10 percent cheaper than it was a year ago.
Aug 29, 2016, 1:50 pm By Heather SmithSo say two new reports from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The…What kind of liquor is best for the environment?
Aug 29, 2016, 4:41 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, Which type of liquor is the most environmentally friendly? My friends and I were…Your favorite national park is about to get a lot hotter
Aug 28, 2016, 5:03 am By Brian Kahn
Summertime is prime time for national parks. As snow melts, wildflowers bloom, and waterfalls roar,…Americans love genetically modified mosquitoes much more than other GMOs
Aug 27, 2016, 8:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
When the news started to spread about a plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the…The complicated science of organic food, in one awesome podcast
Aug 26, 2016, 7:42 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Did you know organic fields are more likely than conventional ones to leach fertilizers into…The warmer it gets, the more it snows in Antarctica. Huh?
Aug 26, 2016, 5:40 pm By Amelia Urry
Antarctica is a weird place. While it’s losing ice faster than an heiress in a caper movie, it’s…Trump’s campaign chief once ran a major climate research center
Aug 26, 2016, 4:00 pm By Tim Murphy
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…See how Earth is fast approaching a red hot mess
Aug 26, 2016, 3:17 pm By Kate Yoder
Ed Hawkins Scientists are getting better at producing visualizations that make climate change, a…Celebrate National Women’s Equality Day by turning down the goddamn A/C
Aug 26, 2016, 2:51 pm By Katie Herzogoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2NNm8MTboA Today is National Women’s Equality…
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