Koch brother resigns from museum board after calls from scientists
Jan 21, 2016, 3:03 pm By Katie Herzog
For 23 years, David Koch, the billionaire industrialist who made a fortune off fossil fuels,…My city banned plastic bags — now where am I supposed to recycle them?
Jan 21, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, Olympia recently banned plastic bags, which is great. Here is my problem: Now that…These bacterial communities are heating up the desert
Jan 20, 2016, 8:15 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Do you ever feel like this is a microbial world, and that we’re just living in it? It seems like…Climate deniers attack NASA scientist dying of cancer
Jan 20, 2016, 8:11 pm By Katie Herzog
Readers of The New York Times were treated to a deeply touching essay this week by Piers Sellers,…Modern-day slavery and environmental devastation go hand in hand
Jan 20, 2016, 8:04 pm By Katie Herzog
Slavery didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite slavery being illegal in every…Biodegradable robots? Not satisfied with stealing jobs, robots elbow in on death
Jan 20, 2016, 7:43 pm By Kate Yoder
When it comes to creating robots that look like humans, we’re getting good — uncannily…This guy started an e-waste band, and it’s actually amazing
Jan 20, 2016, 3:53 pm By Suzanne JacobsYou know what they say — when life gives you e-waste, start a band and make sick tunes with it.…The real heroes of the Flint water crisis
Jan 20, 2016, 3:44 pm By Raven Rakia
On Sunday night, while smart people were probably doing anything other than watching the Democratic…2015 was record-busting hot, scientists say
Jan 20, 2016, 1:29 pm By Zoë Schlanger
This story was originally published by Newsweek and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Bernie’s new ad shows him standing against Big Oil
Jan 20, 2016, 1:18 pm By Katie Herzog
The Bernie Sanders campaign released a new ad in Iowa this week, and it’s not like anything…EPA and religious groups team up to fight food waste
Jan 19, 2016, 8:20 pm By Kate Yoder
Quiz time! When it comes to America’s food waste problem, WWJD? Would he: A) “Save” that…Armed right-wing militia may not be the best caretakers of Native American artifacts
Jan 19, 2016, 8:08 pm By Aura Bogado
When those armed ranchers took over the headquarters buildings of the Malheur National Wildlife…Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump, resurrects “drill, baby, drill” theme
Jan 19, 2016, 8:04 pm By Katie Herzog
In the immortal words of Charlie Brown: Good grief. Two of America’s biggest egos came together…Stephen Hawking thinks it’s time to ditch this dying planet
Jan 19, 2016, 6:33 pm By Katie Herzog
The list of things Stephen Hawking is known for is pretty long. He’s a world renowned physicist…Sign of the end times? Democrats and Republicans agree to help hungry kids
Jan 19, 2016, 6:33 pm By Nathanael Johnson
It looks like we have a bipartisan agreement to improve child nutrition by reauthorizing the…Your home is full of creepy crawlies
Jan 19, 2016, 6:04 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where Willie had to wade through a…Ted Cruz won’t win over most Americans with his city bashing
Jan 19, 2016, 4:29 pm By Ben Adler
Ascendant Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is running against New York City. Technically,…Fossil fuel zombies and the fight against undead Big Oil
Jan 19, 2016, 4:13 pm By Bill McKibben
When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school,…Greens bash heads over how to deal with wildfires
Jan 19, 2016, 3:44 pm By Katie Herzog
There’s little doubt that wildfires are getting bigger, badder, and more damaging across the…Obama’s coal reforms put the heat on Hillary and Bernie
Jan 19, 2016, 2:57 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the…
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