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…Organic milk is not the same as better milk
Jun 12, 2016, 6:38 am By Sarah Jampel
My impulse, when facing the wall of milk at the grocery store, is to reach for the organic gallon.…Alaska is way, way hotter than normal right now
Jun 11, 2016, 7:01 am By Andrea Thompson
Alaska just can’t seem to shake the fever it has been running. This spring was easily the hottest…Stop showering so damn much
Jun 11, 2016, 5:03 am By Katie HerzogJames Hamblin, former actual doctor and current senior editor at the Atlantic, hosts a video…Icelandic power plan buries its carbon pollution, turns it to stone
Jun 10, 2016, 3:55 pm By Nick Stockton
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Air pollution named as leading cause in strokes
Jun 10, 2016, 2:58 pm By Katie HerzogEach year, around 15 million people globally suffer from strokes and it is the fifth leading cause…Our favorite Bernie Sanders moments
Jun 10, 2016, 2:31 pm By Clayton Aldern
He called climate change the greatest threat to our national security. He pulled Hillary Clinton to…We are fleeing the world’s coasts
Jun 10, 2016, 1:18 pm By Kate YoderAs if beaches weren’t already scary (think: Shark attacks! Seagulls swooping in to snatch a…777 days later, Congress hasn’t lifted a finger for Flint
Jun 10, 2016, 11:53 am By Katie HerzogIt’s been 777 days since Michigan switched Flint’s water supply from Detroit to Flint River…Watch Obama slow jam his climate legacy
Jun 10, 2016, 5:13 am By Grist stafforiginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwYbVx_-qg President Obama slow jammed his…Won’t you be my neighbor — say fewer Americans than ever
Jun 10, 2016, 5:05 am By Katharine Wroth
When the first police car pulled up, I didn’t pay much attention. By the time several more rescue…In the Caribbean, a tale of murder in a depleted forest
Jun 9, 2016, 8:26 pm By Aura Bogadooriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYidimYQ6iE Nearly all of Haiti’s forests are…Republicans in Congress just passed a law giving EPA more power
Jun 9, 2016, 5:46 pm By Rebecca Leber
Congress did something this week that’s practically unheard of. It handed the Environmental…Species-wide gene editing could potentially save life on earth — or permanently damage it
Jun 9, 2016, 5:12 pm By Xian Chiang-WarenWhat if scientists could alter an entire species — say, by Zika-proofing the Aedes aegypti…El Niño is officially over. What comes next?
Jun 9, 2016, 3:48 pm By Brian Kahn
Did you wake up this morning with an overwhelming sense of sadness, a feeling that there was a hole…Bay Area voters approve a whole new kind of climate tax
Jun 9, 2016, 1:59 pm By Katie HerzogBay Area voters approved a first-of-its-kind tax to fight the effects of climate change. Measure…
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