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…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
7:22pm 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?
6:28pm By Eric Holthaus
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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