Will Obama create a national monument to gay rights in New York City?
Oct 12, 2015, 8:33 pm By Ben Adler
You know what a park looks like. It’s a green place, full of grass and trees, that lets people…Electric car owners wage war over charging spots
Oct 12, 2015, 7:33 pm By Katie Herzog
There’s a new face of road rage. She composts her coffee grounds, never forgets her reusable…There are too many trucks coming into New York City
Oct 12, 2015, 7:09 pm By Raven Rakia
Here’s a statistic for you: 90 percent of the 400 million tons of freight coming into New York…Here’s the real story of Columbus that people prefer to ignore
Oct 12, 2015, 6:29 pm By Aura Bogado
You’re chatting with your friend, and she says, “Why are people so hung up on this Columbus Day…Bolivia delivers stirring climate manifesto to U.N., issues decrees to pump more oil
Oct 12, 2015, 5:22 pm By Clayton Aldern
In the world of U.N. climate negotiations, as with most things in life, there are heroes and…The meat industry is totally cool with California’s tough new law on agricultural antibiotics
Oct 12, 2015, 4:55 pm By Nathanael Johnson
On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that people are calling the toughest…Charles Koch comes out against special interest groups. LOL!
Oct 12, 2015, 4:48 pm By Katie Herzog
He looks a little bit like your favorite grad school philosophy professor. He’s got a full head…Fracking linked to premature births, study finds
Oct 12, 2015, 1:42 pm By Katie Herzog
The byproducts of fracking are well-documented, from groundwater contamination to methane leaks to…This conservative economist makes the case for a carbon tax
Oct 12, 2015, 11:38 am By Amanda Little
N. Gregory Mankiw is, if not a household name, a dorm-room one. His Principles of Economics textbook…When I recycle a beer bottle, does it secretly end up in the landfill?
Oct 12, 2015, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q.Dear Umbra, Here in my environmentally proud city, a local newspaper recently asserted that much…Dirty energy plutocrats are trying to buy the presidential election
Oct 12, 2015, 1:23 am By Ben Adler
It’s nice to read all those stories about Bernie Sanders’ army of small donors, isn’t it?…Communities in the San Joaquin Valley still don’t have clean water. Here’s why
Oct 10, 2015, 8:00 am By Laura Bliss
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…You’re free to air-dry those chonies now, California
Oct 9, 2015, 8:02 pm By Heather Smith
Earlier this year, I wrote about a story in San Francisco in which a landlord was trying to…New York’s JFK airport has an urban farm. Wait, what?
Oct 9, 2015, 7:22 pm By Kate Yoder
The potatoes in your bag of complimentary airline chips could someday come from a farm at —…Even as House descends into chaos, it manages to do big favor for Big Oil
Oct 9, 2015, 7:13 pm By Ben Adler
You thought the House of Representatives was mired in dysfunction, unable to find anyone competent…Solar power access looking a lot brighter in California
Oct 9, 2015, 7:12 pm By Raven Rakia
An important part of all the talk around renewable energy is how we can make it accessible to…Pour a glass of booze and saddle up for this week’s birth control news
Oct 9, 2015, 6:30 pm By Eve Andrews
October is, quite possibly, my favorite month — and one that, this time around, has put…Media disaster reporting can throw a wrench in the way you process disaster risk
Oct 9, 2015, 4:59 pm By Clayton Aldern
The last time I read about a BASE-jumping accident, I remember thinking to myself, Huh, BASE…Trump heads to U.K. supreme court over wind farm spoiling his precious view
Oct 9, 2015, 4:34 pm By Katie Herzog
Donald Trump took a moment out of his busy schedule making a mockery of American politics to take a…California bans microbeads, fish rejoice
Oct 9, 2015, 4:02 pm By Katie Herzog
California is now the latest state in the nation to bad microbeads, those little ball thingies in…
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