Miami’s plan to deal with climate change: Make developers pay up
Jul 8, 2016, 6:29 am By Katie Herzog
It’s hard to ignore climate change in South Florida, what with the city streets that flood at high…Forget recycling. Let’s turn old plastic into fuel.
Jul 8, 2016, 6:07 am By Samantha Lee
Plastic is a big problem, like, bigger-than-Texas big. Giant islands of plastic trash — one in…If you want planes to use less fuel, just ask the pilot nicely
Jul 8, 2016, 5:05 am By Samantha Lee
If you want something, just ask — even when it comes to emissions reductions in the commercial…Alberta wildfire was the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history
Jul 7, 2016, 5:50 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
The wildfire that ripped through Alberta, Canada’s Fort McMurray area in June devastated homes,…Rising seas are lapping at the doors of Trump’s real estate empire
Jul 7, 2016, 5:14 pm By Suzanne Goldenberg
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…GOP lawmaker says EPA is absurd, irresponsible, and “un-American”
Jul 7, 2016, 4:49 pm By Katie Herzog
A Congressional hearing regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)…Congress pledges billions to the world’s small farmers
Jul 7, 2016, 4:23 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Everyone in my Twitter feed has been yelling about the GMO-labeling bill that passed the Senate on…Ocean acidification is eating into mussels
Jul 7, 2016, 11:55 am By Katie Herzog
Ocean acidification is bad for mussels. You may think you’ve heard this story before (cf. clams,…I just got new glasses. Should I recycle my old ones?
Jul 7, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I recently purchased new glasses with a new prescription. So I now have two sets of…Explosive oil trains are feeling some serious heat this week
6:29pm By Melissa Cronin
Exactly three years ago from this Wednesday, a 74-car freight train carrying 30,000 gallons of…Congress passes GMO-labeling bill
5:10pm By Nathanael Johnson
The Senate just voted to usher in nationwide mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods. The…Senate passes GMO-labeling bill
5:10pm By Nathanael JohnsonThe Senate just voted to usher in nationwide mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods. The…New York City hopes a 10-foot wall can save it from rising seas
4:56pm By Katie Herzog
New York City is in trouble. Location, population, and a massive underground infrastructure…Obama gets riled up about Trump and climate change
1:47pm By Katie Herzog
President Obama and Hillary Clinton looked more like old friends than old rivals at their first…The key to fighting climate change and mortality? Walkable cities
5:05am By Eve Andrewsoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IrL0S-x674 American cities are pretty much made for…Advertising to kids isn’t good, it’s grrreat!
4:15am By Nathanael Johnson
Advertising works even when we know someone is trying to manipulate us into buying commemorative…Carbon prices are way down, thanks to the Supreme Court’s hold on Clean Power Plan
Tue 8:19pm By Bobby Magill
A temporary halt to the federal government’s plan to cut electric power plant emissions has caused…Why is a ton of trash washing up on beaches in Hong Kong? It’s a mystery!
Tue 7:10pm By Kate Yoder
Listen up, beach-goers who delight in swimming amongst plastic bags, deflated balloons, and lonely…Canada just shut down another major pipeline proposal
Tue 6:02pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
In what looks like the final death blow to another tar sands pipeline, a Canadian court has…After 71 million trips, bike shares see their first fatality
Tue 4:34pm By Katie Herzog
An unfortunate milestone was reached last weekend in Chicago when a woman was hit by a truck and…
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