Obama wants to tax Big Oil and spend the money on green transportation projects
Feb 5, 2016, 2:22 pm By Katie Herzog
The United States isn’t exactly known for its mass transportation. In all but the biggest…A movement to make Trump Park great again — by renaming it for Pete Seeger
Feb 5, 2016, 1:26 pm By Ben Adler
One of the odder features of New York state’s highway system is the presence of several large…It happened to me: The NFL built a “Super Bowl City” in my city
Feb 5, 2016, 12:53 pm By Heather Smith
A long time ago, when I first moved to San Francisco, I was walking through North Beach one morning,…The world’s biggest solar plant takes important step forward
Feb 4, 2016, 6:52 pm By Kate Yoder
Ouarzazate, Morocco, located on a plateau at the edge of the Sahara, is best known to Westerners as…The X-Files, conspiracy theories, and the ‘90s: The inconvenient truth is out there
Feb 4, 2016, 6:31 pm By Heather Smith
There are some great and spooky films out there about the environment. Well, one truly great film:…Growing forests gobble up carbon like growing teenagers raiding the fridge
Feb 4, 2016, 5:16 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
The relationship between trees and humans has long been a simple one: They’ve always given us…San Francisco wants workers to use vacation days to accommodate the Super Bowl
Feb 4, 2016, 5:02 pm By Aura Bogado
If you’re like me (and unlike legions of overexcited NFL fans), you have not been paying a lot of…Hillary Clinton and the Flint water crisis
Feb 4, 2016, 4:16 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the…Should I buy a horsehair mattress?
Feb 4, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I need to buy new mattresses. Which are environmentally better: foam (100 percent…U.S. food industry workers are pretty forked over
Feb 3, 2016, 8:31 pm By Katie Herzog
Food service is not easy. I learned this lesson at 16, when I got my first job at a local Mexican…Watch out, corporations: Space detectives are watching you ruin the planet
Feb 3, 2016, 8:09 pm By Kate Yoder
Hey, corporations destroying the planet: If you’ve been getting away with illegally logging…Fracking waste more likely to be located in poor communities and neighborhoods of color
Feb 3, 2016, 6:30 pm By Raven Rakia
Hydraulic fracturing — using a high-pressure injection of liquid into rock to release natural gas…Will climate change move agriculture indoors? And will that be a good thing?
Feb 3, 2016, 5:54 pm By Heather Smith
As climate change does its thing to America, what it is going to do to the nation’s food supply…Amazon might be opening hundreds of bookstores
Feb 3, 2016, 5:18 pm By Katie Herzog
The snake has eaten its tail. Rumor has it that Amazon.com, the company that made its name killing…Greenland is melting and dumping phosphorous into the Arctic Ocean
Feb 3, 2016, 5:18 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Here are a few things that we know about the Greenland Ice Sheet: 1) it’s big — like,…Shaming homeless people? There’s an app for that — or is there?
Feb 3, 2016, 2:56 pm By Katie Herzog
Don’t you just hate it when you’re walking into your engineering job at Twitter and trip over a…What climate hawks can learn from Martin O’Malley’s quixotic campaign
Feb 3, 2016, 2:28 pm By Ben Adler
As soon as the results of the Iowa caucuses started trickling in on Monday night, former Maryland…Can California meet its climate goals without this major nuclear plant?
Feb 3, 2016, 2:17 pm By Tim McDonnell
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Artist turns climate data into striking paintings
Feb 3, 2016, 12:58 pm By Brian Kahn
Climate data is usually seen in pixels, spreadsheets, and maps. But watercolor paintings? Not so…Mark Ruffalo comes out for Bernie Sanders. Who’s got Hulk Hogan’s vote?
Feb 2, 2016, 8:10 pm By Katie Herzog
Finally! We’ve arrived at the long awaited season when famous people of all stripes announce their…
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