Oil train derails, erupts in flames in Oregon
Jun 3, 2016, 6:26 pm By Katie Herzog
Another day, another exploding oil train. On Friday, a flimsy metal can carrying crude oil…Record-breaking floods hit Paris. Get used to it.
Jun 3, 2016, 5:41 pm By Katie Herzog
Record-breaking rains and flooding have inundated western Europe this week, killing at least…Antarctica is melting and shows no sign of slowing down
Jun 3, 2016, 3:58 pm By Andrea Thompson
Over the past few years, the evidence has piled up that glaciers in parts of Antarctica have been…Everyone thinks trump’s plan is nuts, including John Kerry
Jun 3, 2016, 2:54 pm By Katie Herzog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2TeOcKQVxQ Secretary of State John Kerry sat down with MSNBC’s…Here’s what Trump just doesn’t understand about clean air and dirty energy
Jun 3, 2016, 1:07 pm By Ben Adler
When Donald Trump gave his big energy speech in North Dakota last week, he recited a…What’s headed our way this hurricane season? Let us explain.
Jun 3, 2016, 5:47 am By Grist staff
In case you didn’t remember to mark the occasion, June 1 marked the opening day of hurricane…Meet the man who changed the way the U.S. fights poverty abroad
Jun 3, 2016, 5:07 am By Nathanael Johnson
What should we pay for with our foreign aid? In recent history, the American answer to that question…Activists wanted to clean up a coal ash dump. Dump sued activists for complaining.
Jun 2, 2016, 8:21 pm By Aura Bogado
Four residents of a tiny Alabama town are fighting back against a giant landfill operator after the…The zombie wildfires have awakened in Alaska
Jun 2, 2016, 7:29 pm By Kate Yoder
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the start of wildfire season, we now have to face…Ohio purges thousands of black voters from voting rolls
Jun 2, 2016, 4:58 pm By Katie Herzog
Reuters reports that Ohio officials have purged tens of thousands of voters who haven’t cast…The science is in and this popular weedkiller really might be harmful
Jun 2, 2016, 4:46 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The amount of a popular herbicide farmers regularly apply to their fields poses a risk to plants,…We’re facing down drug-resistant infections. What happens next?
Jun 2, 2016, 4:35 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
Last week, news broke that researchers had discovered antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria in a…McCain’s reelection campaign focuses on … chemtrails
Jun 2, 2016, 3:19 pm By Katie Herzog
It’s been quite a year for political nicknames. There’s Lil’ Marco, Crooked Hillary, Lyin’…Is it safe to eat veggies grown near a busy city street?
Jun 2, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I was getting all excited to plant some herbs and maybe veggies in containers on the…Are plastic-bag bans good for the climate?
Jun 2, 2016, 5:54 am By Ben Adler
Like cigarettes, plastic bags have recently gone from a tolerated nuisance to a widely despised and…The Clean Power Plan is kind of like a Swiffer for our national energy
Jun 2, 2016, 5:05 am By Eve Andrews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5EKWdyGAMU You’ve probably at least heard murmurs of the Clean…Flying space junk is about to beat us to destroying the Arctic
Jun 2, 2016, 5:00 am By Xian Chiang-Waren
We’re surely not the first to remind you that it’s a hard-knock life for creatures in the…Can you feel it?
Jun 2, 2016, 1:05 am By Ben Adler
Remember when Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House? How can we put America back on the…Here’s what the new Never Trump contender has to say about climate change
Jun 1, 2016, 3:38 pm By Melissa Cronin
After searching for a miracle to save the Republican Party from a nominee straight out of the…A 6-year-old channels your inner rage over climate deniers
Jun 1, 2016, 2:41 pm By Cody Permenter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfrnEA-2e8Y One pint-sized eco-warrior has had it up to here (here…
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