Amid fire evacuations, Alberta oil production restarts
May 12, 2016, 5:05 am By Xian Chiang-Waren
It’s time to ask the really important question about the ongoing, devastating Alberta…Climatarian, vegavore, reducetarian: Why we have so many words for cutting back on meat
May 12, 2016, 5:00 am By Kate Yoder
A climatarian, a reducetarian, and a sustainatarian walk into a bar. It sounds like the beginning…Will Uber and Lyft learn anything from their defeat in Austin?
May 12, 2016, 2:20 am By Ben Adler
On Saturday, voters in Austin, Texas, handed a stinging defeat to the major ride-hailing companies…Keystone pipeline still a pain in nation’s butt
May 11, 2016, 6:22 pm By Katie Herzog
Will it ever end? Six months after President Obama nixed the Keystone XL pipeline — a decision it…Even with the Arctic out, offshore drilling isn’t slowing down
May 11, 2016, 5:22 pm By Melissa Cronin
The oil industry just lost its chance at finding a fossil fuel goldmine in the U.S. Arctic. On…Rainbow satellite image shows Antarctica’s ice fleeing into the ocean
May 11, 2016, 5:08 pm By Kate Yoder
Hello, Antarctica, you’re looking more colorful than ever! But wait — you’re ice, and colorful…BP takes Colorado to court and wins millions in tax breaks
May 11, 2016, 4:49 pm By Clayton Aldern
It’s not too often one comes across a brand-new fossil fuel handout in 2016, but the Colorado…The Bay Area could get a whole new kind of climate tax
May 11, 2016, 4:10 pm By Katie Herzog
Residents of the Bay Area will soon have a chance to vote on a new tax to fight the effects of…We’re wiping out one-fifth of Earth’s plant species
May 11, 2016, 3:26 pm By Damian Carrington
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Ethiopian farmers made a desert bloom again
May 11, 2016, 3:11 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Ethiopia is in the middle of the worst drought in 50 years. It’s the sort of shock to the system…There’s worrying volcano news. But could that be good climate news?
May 11, 2016, 5:53 am By Katie Herzog
If you, like me, have Google alerts for the terms “volcano,” “earthquake,” “end of…Oil-rich Alaska has surprising solar power potential
May 10, 2016, 5:56 pm By Kate Yoder
In oil-rich Alaska, where there’s little sunlight in the winter, solar power isn’t an obvious…Nobody knows if climate change sunk these islands or not
May 10, 2016, 3:44 pm By Clayton Aldern
If you’ve been paying attention to environmental news over the past 24 hours — and you’ve…The feds are trying to figure out what “natural” food is. Don’t get your hopes up.
May 10, 2016, 3:12 pm By Nathanael Johnson
It’s the last day for people to weigh in on Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to figure…Stephen Colbert takes on Trump’s bizarre antics in coal country
May 10, 2016, 12:41 pm By Katie Herzoghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRU_Y2VWAg Donald Trump donned a hard hat on a campaign trip to…4 reasons Alberta’s wildfire is such a nightmare
May 10, 2016, 12:22 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
Officials say the massive wildfire raging across Canada’s oil capital of Alberta will take…Cities and companies have pledged to fight climate change. Now what?
May 10, 2016, 5:01 am By Clayton Aldern
Since the Paris Climate Conference wrapped up last December, 50 cities and companies have posted new…Trump and his hairspray leave cloud of weird in coal country
May 9, 2016, 7:39 pm By Katie Herzog
Donald “Climate Change Is a Hoax” Trump told voters in West Virginia last week not to bother…The Earth is warming at scary rates, and this GIF proves it
May 9, 2016, 7:19 pm By Andrea Thompson
The steady rise of Earth’s temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap…Don’t worry about Clinton pandering to coal states
May 9, 2016, 5:22 pm By Ben Adler
With the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries approaching, Hillary Clinton has been on the campaign…
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