Greenland was hotter than New York City last week
Wed 4:01pm By Katie Herzog
Greenland, the Arctic nation that is basically one huge ice cube, is feeling rather balmy lately.…Kenya is on the brink of approving GMOs
Wed 2:39pm By Nathan Siegel
Just four years after banning imports of genetically-modified crops, Kenyan officials have come full…Massive sinkholes in Texas could combine to form even massiver sinkhole
Wed 1:57pm By Katie Herzog
Welcome to West Texas, where sometimes the ground just opens up under your feet. Two existing…France ratifies U.N. climate deal. Your move, rest of world.
Wed 1:02pm By Clayton Aldern
France on Wednesday became the first global power to formally join the U.N. climate deal, after it…Stackable neighborhoods could be the way of the future for cities
Wed 9:38am By Samantha Lee
In 2015, Czech libertarian politician Vit Jedlicka called the Free Republic of Liberland into…Kids who breathe polluted air have higher rates of mental illness
Wed 6:04am By Aura Bogado
We know air pollution is linked to heart disease and puts people at risk for stroke. Now a new…First mammal goes extinct because of climate change
Jun 14, 2016, 5:13 pm By Kate Yoder
Pour one out for the melomys: the first mammal in recorded history to go extinct thanks to climate…Welcome to the future, where it’s so hot roads are buckling
Jun 14, 2016, 4:11 pm By Katie Herzog
Talk about a hot dish. A heat wave in Minnesota last week saw temperatures reaching into the…Wall Street Journal publishes call for climate action — for cash money
Jun 14, 2016, 3:09 pm By Katie Herzog
The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is notorious for its climate denial. It frequently…Your food is better traveled than you are
Jun 14, 2016, 2:48 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Cuisine is a powerful source of national identity. America is apple pie. Italy is lasagna. France is…Dirty money bought one coal company a whole lot of denial
Jun 14, 2016, 9:28 am By Katie Herzog
Perhaps this should come as no surprise, but there is now definitive proof that Big Coal has been…Will Sanders supporters go over to the Green Party?
Jun 14, 2016, 7:05 am By Ari Phillips
This story was originally published by Fusion and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Why is this liberal congresswoman spreading anti-solar arguments?
Jun 14, 2016, 6:39 am By Ben Adler
With the home solar panel industry and the electric utility industry at war, you might expect a…If U.S. health care were a country, it would rank 13th for emissions
Jun 14, 2016, 5:00 am By Kate Yoder
A visit to the doctor’s office or hospital evokes images of cleanliness: sterile countertops,…House Republicans just voted against a nonexistent carbon tax
Jun 13, 2016, 3:43 pm By Clayton Aldern
On Friday, Congress passed a resolution that would stymie a hypothetical carbon tax — the kind…Elephant seals are doing science, so grad students don’t have to
Jun 13, 2016, 2:24 pm By Samantha Lee
Sometimes, blubber is enough to qualify one as a science researcher. Scientists have confirmed in…Renewables are poised to put global fossil fuel investment to shame
Jun 13, 2016, 2:13 pm By Katie Herzog
As the cost of wind and solar plummets and technology improves, global renewable energy generation…One day, you might get paid to poo
Jun 13, 2016, 7:00 am By Samantha Leeoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9VyDscFOQ In Cho Jaeweon’s dream world, each…Can we reduce meat’s climate impact by eating more animal parts?
Jun 13, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. A lot of people eat less meat as a way of decreasing their carbon footprints. It’s well-studied…Our bodies don’t need meat. So why can’t we give it up?
Jun 13, 2016, 5:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that…
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