Watch America’s trash problem keep getting bigger
Aug 1, 2016, 3:18 pm By Kate Yoder
SaveOnEnergy The United States is positively glowing right now. Too bad it’s glowing with dumps.…Trump disagrees with his fellow Republicans on fracking
Aug 1, 2016, 2:46 pm By Ben Adler
Donald Trump’s deeply held conservative principles are clashing with one another. After months of…Your next leather accessory might be made from mushrooms
Aug 1, 2016, 12:10 pm By Katie Herzog
That leather jacket might make you look sexy, but it comes at a steep price — and we aren’t…How green is radiant floor heating?
Aug 1, 2016, 5:23 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I am planning a garage conversion and wondering whether to heat by means of radiators…Should colleges treat their students to fine dining or financial aid?
Aug 1, 2016, 5:07 am By Nathanael Johnson
There’s a tenuous alliance between people who want better food and people trying to end poverty.…Many young voters don’t see a difference between Clinton and Trump on climate
Jul 31, 2016, 9:30 am By Rebecca Leber
PHILADELPHIA — One presidential candidate says that scientists who work on climate change are…Civil rights group throws support to shady desalination project
Jul 30, 2016, 5:02 am By Aura Bogado
Vulnerable communities have plenty to be salty about when it comes to desalination projects. So why…GMO labels are now the law of the land
Jul 29, 2016, 6:01 pm By Nathanael Johnson
We’re officially a country that labels GMOs now. President Obama signed a bill on Friday that…The women of Broad City remind us how long this nomination has been coming
Jul 29, 2016, 5:09 pm By Katie Herzogoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1SesX892Q Shortly after Hillary Clinton accepted…Can climate action win over suburban voters? This Senate climate hawk thinks so
Jul 29, 2016, 12:07 pm By Ben Adler
PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, one of the leading climate hawks in Congress,…Industry events left an oily sheen on the Democratic convention
Jul 29, 2016, 10:11 am By Oliver Milman
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Can a city really go vegetarian?
Jul 29, 2016, 7:30 am By Eillie Anzilotti
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…For this black church, supporting climate action is a no-brainer
Jul 29, 2016, 7:06 am By Aura Bogado
Earlier this month, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, or AME — one of the oldest black…This new science podcast is nerd bait (and we love it)
Jul 29, 2016, 6:35 am By Nathanael Johnson
There’s a delicious moment in the first episode of the newly launched podcast, Science Vs, when…Watch the climate spiral out of control in these hypnotic graphs
Jul 29, 2016, 6:06 am By Samantha Lee
Remember that totally shareable animated graph that showed global temperatures spiraling out of…Clinton’s big applause line: “I believe in science”
Jul 29, 2016, 4:46 am By Ben Adler
PHILADELPHIA — One of the biggest applause lines in Hillary Clinton’s nomination acceptance…Olympians prepare for a “petri dish of pathogens”
7:40pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
The world’s greatest athletes head to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this week for the 2016 Summer…Hate crappy trade deals? This free concert is for you.
4:18pm By Aura Bogado
A group of musicians are on tour protesting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a murky…Thanks, climate change, for all the extra mosquito bites — oh, and the Zika
4:01pm By Katie Herzog
If rising sea levels, worsening wildfires, and butt sweat weren’t enough to worry about, climate…Forget free wi-fi: America just wants buses that show up on time
3:20pm By Heather Smith
Squeezing people into simple categories is a national pastime. There are optimists and pessimists,…
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