A Hawaiian clean energy plant makes electricity from seawater and ammonia
Aug 25, 2015, 6:06 pm By Clayton AldernThe ocean is often considered to be the final frontier for energy, whether we’re talking…The hungry dystopia of climate change
Aug 25, 2015, 4:23 pm By Lexi Pandell
It’s the year 2026. A poor monsoon season in India leads to low wheat output, which is followed by…We’re killing off all the animals and they are making it really difficult for us to save them
Aug 25, 2015, 2:42 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Take note, parents: The next time you take your kids to the zoo, if you really want to give them…When the Big One hits, here’s some of the gear you’re going to need
Aug 25, 2015, 2:08 pm By Ask Umbra®
Q. I want to buy some ready-made emergency kits for my home and car (so that I can be prepared for…These elected officials eat hemp to make a point
Aug 25, 2015, 1:33 pm By Katie Herzog
Last week in Colorado, The Man gave the finger to The Man. Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Thomas…There’s a new sustainable ag technique in town, and it’s cleaning up
Aug 25, 2015, 6:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
The farming technique known as push-pull — which involves planting grasses with special properties…What is so great about whales? This scientist says it’s their poop
Aug 25, 2015, 5:23 am By Samantha Larson
“I have an unhealthy — or, I would like to say, healthy — obsession with poop,” says marine…Obama calls for big clean energy push
Aug 24, 2015, 9:54 pm By Katie Herzog
President Obama spoke in Las Vegas Monday at the National Clean Energy Summit. He was introduced by…These Burners want to clean up Burning Man
Aug 24, 2015, 7:34 pm By Katie Herzog
They say one person can make a difference in the world. I’ve never really believed this. That is,…We’re making massive waste islands in the sea
Aug 24, 2015, 5:41 pm By Clayton AldernThat message in a bottle you tossed into the sea as a young rapscallion? Remember how you didn’t…Would you like fecal matter with that? There’s nasty stuff in your burger
Aug 24, 2015, 3:42 pm By Katie Herzog
I was a vegetarian for most of my life, and it started with hamburger. In middle school, I realized…America’s biggest crop brings nothing but trouble
Aug 24, 2015, 1:32 pm By Katie Herzog
The largest crop in the United States isn’t corn or soy or marijuana or cotton or even GOP…Big Oil hates a California climate bill so much that it’s telling outright lies about it
Aug 24, 2015, 12:55 pm By Bentham Paulos
As Western wildfires follow the worst drought in modern history, the impacts of global warming have…How to feed the world, with a little kelp from our friends (the oceans)
Aug 24, 2015, 5:01 am By Nathanael Johnson
Paul Dobbins works on a farm that needs no inputs — no fertilizer, no pesticides, no water. Oh,…California wants its cars to use half as much gas by 2030. Is it possible?
Aug 23, 2015, 8:01 am By Kate Galbraith
One sunny Saturday in Stockton, Mary Serrano climbed into the driver’s seat of a bright-red,…As California goes, so goes the country: Welcome to our hotter future
Aug 22, 2015, 8:00 am By William deBuys
Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight man in a gay…China’s economy is in trouble, but its climate efforts are not
Aug 21, 2015, 7:19 pm By John Light
China has given environmentalists a lot of encouraging signs in recent years. Its highly polluting…Lifting the crude oil export ban would be terrible for the climate
Aug 21, 2015, 6:20 pm By Clayton Aldern
Since 1975, the U.S. has restricted the export of crude oil in the name of energy security, and…California looks to boost clean energy with ambitious new climate bill
Aug 21, 2015, 5:30 pm By Kate Galbraith
At a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant east of San Francisco, greenhouse gases flow from a stack…Jon Stewart would be the perfect presidential debate host. Will it happen?
Aug 21, 2015, 5:14 pm By Katie Herzog
Jon Stewart fans: Take note. A Change.org petition calling for the retired Daily Show host to…
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