John Oliver explains what’s going on with abortion legislation
6:48pm By Eve AndrewsIt can be a real challenge to keep up on everything going wrong with abortion rights in the United…Should California give subsidies to people buying bicycles?
6:24pm By Heather SmithSay you live in California. Like the good Californian you are, you want to move your person around…While the planet broke heat records, we broke driving records
6:01pm By Suzanne JacobsWhen gas is cheap and piggy banks are full, there’s only one thing to do: ROAD TRIP!!!!!! And…Investors flock to food and agriculture technology
4:56pm By Nathanael JohnsonA new report from AgFunder (an online venture capital middleman) presents evidence of a surge of…EPA comes up with novel way for VW to atone for emissions cheating
1:59pm By Katie HerzogThe U.S. government has issued an usual request to German carmaker Volkswagen: Make your electric…Is my tattoo full of toxic chemicals?
6:00am By Ask Umbra®Q. Dear Umbra, I am writing to learn if there are toxic chemicals in tattoo dye? With so many people…6 things Bernie Sanders would do to crack down on fracking, even if Congress doesn’t go along
Sun 2:06pm By Ben AdlerBernie Sanders wants to halt fracking not just on public land but on private land too. How would he…A climate scientist who decided not to fly
Sun 7:00am By Peter KalmusI’m a climate scientist who doesn’t fly. I try to avoid burning fossil fuels, because it’s…Scalia’s environmental legacy was decidedly negative
Feb 20, 2016, 7:00 am By Patrick ParenteauJustice Antonin Scalia left an indelible mark on American law. His prodigious intellect, distinctive…No, privatization is not the way to prevent the next Flint
Feb 19, 2016, 8:13 pm By Katie HerzogNearly nine in 10 Americans get their water from a publicly owned utility. This means that when the…How an “ugly food” champion is changing the world’s food system
Feb 19, 2016, 6:33 pm By Melissa CroninCall that carrot what you want: hideous, grotesque, disfigured, deformed. But whatever you do, just…It’s not just what Exxon did — it’s what the oil company is still doing
Feb 19, 2016, 6:15 pm By Bill McKibbenHere’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest…In Pennsylvania, oil trains are more likely to run through communities of color
Feb 19, 2016, 5:59 pm By Raven RakiaYou’d think, given the track record of our country’s terrible…Want to make your farmers market more accessible? Move it
Feb 19, 2016, 5:48 pm By Katie HerzogPicture the farmers market. You may think of mounds of garlic cloves still covered in dirt,…Koch brother praises Bernie Sanders; hell begins freezing over
Feb 19, 2016, 2:52 pm By Katie HerzogIn a new op-ed published in The Washington Post, Charles Koch — the billionaire industrialist who…Incredible glacier art pays homage to our disappearing ice
Feb 19, 2016, 2:33 pm By Kate YoderDiane Burko has a penchant for glaciers. Her paintings and photographs of frozen landscapes evoke…Pope shifts, Scalia dies, and GOP continues assault on abortions
Feb 19, 2016, 1:48 pm By Eve AndrewsIt’s the most miserable time of the year, so let’s partake in everyone’s favorite pick-me-up:…Want to fight climate change? Here are the 7 critical life changes you should make
Feb 19, 2016, 6:03 am By Heather SmithA few months ago, the U.S. and 195 other countries signed this thing in Paris in which all parties…Obama may have the power to compel more climate action — and that has Republicans worried
Feb 18, 2016, 9:02 pm By Ben AdlerLast week, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) introduced the Energy Sovereignty Act. The text is unusually…Oil industry donors flock to Cruz. Sorry, Bush
Feb 18, 2016, 8:45 pm By Katie HerzogBad news for Jeb Bush: He may be the son and brother of oilmen-turned-presidents and a one-time…
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