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…What’s wrong with giving farm states the keys to our elections? Everything
Feb 2, 2016, 7:50 pm By Ben Adler
Climate hawks, who tend to support Bernie Sanders, may be celebrating his amazing tie finish with…Hellmann’s, defender of all things mayonnaise, jumps into the vegan market
Feb 2, 2016, 7:49 pm By Katie Herzog
News alert: The battle rages on in the Great Mayo War of the twenty-teens. Mayonnaise giant…Say hello to East Africa’s first solar-powered bus
Feb 2, 2016, 7:38 pm By Kate YoderIt’s always sunny in Uganda — well, probably sunnier than it is in Philadelphia, anyway.…Cruz wins Iowa, ethanol loses
Feb 2, 2016, 3:34 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Ted Cruz just proved that it is possible to win the Iowa caucuses without supporting ethanol…Everything you know is a lie: Earth might actually be 2 planets smashed together
Feb 2, 2016, 3:27 pm By Katie Herzog
Did you always figure that Earth was created when the sun made love to the moon? Me too. It seems…Could we end Zika with a GMO mosquito army?
Feb 2, 2016, 2:27 pm By Katie Herzog
Could we genetically engineer mosquitoes into extinction? As the Zika virus spreads — and as…Move over, civet cats: This coffee company tries a fresh approach with bacteria
Feb 1, 2016, 7:22 pm By Nathanael Johnson
So much deliciousness depends on microbes. Beer, wine, and bread, of course, require yeast, but…Is the Zika outbreak connected to climate change?
Feb 1, 2016, 6:28 pm By Eric Holthaus
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Tropical fruit in Nebraska? Geothermal makes it possible … and cheap
Feb 1, 2016, 5:44 pm By Kate YoderPicture this: You’re in a grove of tropical fruit trees, eating oranges, lemons, and figs straight…Feds halt fracking off California coast, for now
Feb 1, 2016, 5:08 pm By Katie Herzog
Great news in the fight to halt the planet’s de-evolution into a fiery pit of manmade earthquakes…Can you turn climate change activism into a game? Here’s how we’ll find out
Feb 1, 2016, 4:54 pm By Heather Smith
The video that I’m watching could have been made in the ’80s. It has the corny laugh track…Ben Carson gets called out on climate cluelessness by Iowa voter
Feb 1, 2016, 4:36 pm By Katie Herzog
Of all the head-shaking weirdness of the 2016 presidential race, the candidate who most confuses me…Should I wash my clothes in the shower?
Feb 1, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I live in a restored historic apartment building with no washer or dryer. I hate…
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