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
5:03am 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
Sat 8:00am 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…Grover Norquist, conservative anti-tax crusader, goes to Burning Man — again
Aug 26, 2016, 2:39 pm By Katie Herzog
It’s hard to picture Grover Norquist in an art car. Norquist, an archconservative, is a…Obama designates world’s largest protected area — it’s underwater
Aug 26, 2016, 1:27 pm By Katie Herzog
President Obama, who marked the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service by designating a…Here’s a way to make it easier to sue climate polluters in court
Aug 26, 2016, 12:02 pm By Ben Adler
Can climate change victims sue climate polluters and win? They haven’t been successful thus far.…Colorado aims to slash its climate pollution
Aug 26, 2016, 4:35 am By Ben Adler
Colorado is going to get its own version of the Clean Power Plan, by executive order of Gov. John…Greens won’t let Obama get away with bragging about his public lands record
Aug 25, 2016, 7:26 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
President Obama may have protected more land and water than any other U.S. president — 265…Severe drought in India pushed thousands of farmers to suicide
Aug 25, 2016, 6:31 pm By Nathanael Johnson
A severe drought in India has caused a spike in farmer suicides. These suicides increased 40…California’s big climate bills are a win for environmental justice
Aug 25, 2016, 6:09 pm By Aura Bogado
California Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign a pair of climate bills approved by state lawmakers…Bill Nye takes CNN to task on what really happened in Louisiana
Aug 25, 2016, 5:18 pm By Katie Herzogoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNI3EmMqa94 CNN’s Chris Cuomo probably didn’t…Cool off with your very own portable A/C unit, you jerk
Aug 25, 2016, 5:08 pm By Katie Herzog
There’s a new product coming out that promises to make summers cooler for the user — and warmer…Container ship, here’s what you’ve been missing all your life: An enormous sail
Aug 25, 2016, 3:18 pm By Heather Smith
Shipping would have never existed without wind power, but it rarely uses it anymore. It’s not for…
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