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…Study finds a link between neonic pesticides and honeybee deaths
Aug 21, 2015, 4:49 pm By Nathanael Johnson
A new study, published on Thursday, shows a correlation between honeybee colony deaths and…Scientists say we’re “super” good at killing stuff
Aug 21, 2015, 4:47 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Humans don’t really need another reason to feel like the greatest species on Earth, so far…Hey, Burning Man: Your desert party sucks for the rest of us
Aug 21, 2015, 3:00 pm By Katie Herzog
Get ready, folks! The most magical time of year is almost upon us. That’s right: Burning Man. Lest…Lawns are dumb. Arresting people for poor lawn care is dumber
Aug 21, 2015, 1:24 pm By Katie Herzog
In 2008, Joe Prudente, a 66-year-old man from Hudson, Fla., turned himself into the Pasco County…Spending time in a controversial camp that’s blocking tar-sands pipelines
Aug 21, 2015, 6:00 am By Sam Bliss
It’s his partner Erin’s birthday tonight, and so Ambrose Williams, a member of the Gitxsan…This surfer is committed to saving sharks — even though he lost his leg to one of them
Aug 21, 2015, 5:08 am By Samantha Larson
On an early October morning in 1997, on the west side of the island of Kauai, 18-year-old Mike Coots…
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