Want to encourage the development of walkable neighborhoods? Fix this
Feb 25, 2016, 7:38 pm By Ben Adler
America’s capitalist self-image notwithstanding, many of its core industries are heavily regulated…Republicans want to open up millions of acres of public lands to logging and mining
Feb 25, 2016, 4:57 pm By Katie Herzog
Federal lands management has been in the news ever since a group of outlaws decided to occupy a…Important research confirms ocean acidification hurts corals
Feb 25, 2016, 4:56 pm By Amelia Urry
Considering how much time we spend worrying about ocean acidification, there’s some pretty basic…Electric vehicles could be as cheap as gas-guzzlers soon
Feb 25, 2016, 3:29 pm By Katie Herzog
With gas prices at less than $2 a gallon, it may be hard to imagine trading in the old combustion…Humans evolve to grow hideous mustaches to filter China’s air pollution in new ad
Feb 25, 2016, 2:45 pm By Melissa Cronin
If only evolution was this simple. In the smog-filled cities of China, a nonprofit has dreamed up…Sanders is destroying Clinton in coal country, despite backing climate action
Feb 25, 2016, 11:50 am By Rebecca Leber
In theory, Hillary Clinton should have no trouble appealing to primary voters in coal country.…Bet you didn’t know your washing machine could do this
Feb 25, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I usually collect all my laundry water to recycle into my garden. I know liquid soap…New grocery store in Denmark sells only castoff foods
Feb 24, 2016, 8:23 pm By Katie Herzog
The world wastes a shocking amount of food. By some estimates, a third of the food we produce each…James Inhofe blames Flint water crisis on Obama’s climate agenda
Feb 24, 2016, 8:05 pm By Katie Herzog
James “Snowball” Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who once compared the EPA to the Gestapo, has…Georgia to transform an unassuming stretch of interstate into a greener highway
Feb 24, 2016, 7:28 pm By Kate Yoder
Aside from football and condiments, there’s nary a thing more American than a highway. Our…WTO swats down India’s massive solar initiative
Feb 24, 2016, 7:12 pm By Clayton Aldern
The World Trade Organization delivered a blow to India’s ambitious solar power program on…The NSA spied on top-secret climate negotiations between world leaders
Feb 24, 2016, 6:50 pm By Melissa Cronin
Climate negotiations between the world’s powerhouses usually take place behind closed doors —…Consumerism plays a huge role in climate change
Feb 24, 2016, 6:10 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
It’s easy to hate on consumption. It turns otherwise intelligent people…No jail time for British activists who blocked runway to protest climate pollution
Feb 24, 2016, 5:01 pm By Katie Herzog
In July 2015, 13 activists cut through a fence and blocked a runway at London’s Heathrow Airport…What determines whether people accept climate science? Politics, politics, politics
Feb 23, 2016, 8:38 pm By Heather Smith
What kind of person doesn’t believe that climate change is a problem? What kind of person does?…A group of bicycling women are defying norms in the Middle East
Feb 23, 2016, 8:13 pm By Melissa Cronin
Amid piles of rubble and past the hostile attentions of local men, a group of women are taking to…Watching coal plants crumble to a Tchaikovsky score is insanely satisfying
Feb 23, 2016, 7:52 pm By Melissa CroninHearing the news that a coal plant, a facility that once belched CO2, mercury, sulphur, nitrogen…“Passive” wifi could pave the way for connected devices that run on nothing
Feb 23, 2016, 7:32 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
If wifi signals were like food — and, let’s be honest, they basically are when going more than…China’s biggest film ever is about humans destroying the environment … and mermaids
Feb 23, 2016, 7:23 pm By Kate YoderA new Chinese film has an environmental message as subtle as the one in Avatar — just replace the…China to shut down 1,000 coal plants this year
Feb 23, 2016, 5:59 pm By James West
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