San Francisco dreams up mean way to crack down on public urinators
Aug 14, 2015, 6:40 pm By Katie Herzog
Seattle has a smell at certain times of year, usually during the hot and dry summer months when…Thousands of felons are the front lines of California’s forest fires
Aug 14, 2015, 5:30 pm By Julia Lurie
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Meet the food justice and clean energy advocate who wants to shake up the nonprofit world
Aug 14, 2015, 5:25 pm By Sara Bernard
Diego Angarita Horowitz isn’t the first person to have noticed poor health outcomes in low-income…Kids sue Obama over climate change
Aug 14, 2015, 4:43 pm By Clayton Aldern
A new lawsuit filed against President Obama and a handful of federal departments and agencies…The pork industry is full of this drug you’ve never heard of
Aug 14, 2015, 4:19 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Like little kids trying to show you their karate moves, food labels will do anything to get your…It turns out we’ve been trying to control the weather since forever
Aug 14, 2015, 4:07 pm By Amelia Urry
Don’t let the recent hype around geoengineering fool you — our attempts to control the…Al Gore for president? People are talking
Aug 14, 2015, 2:27 pm By Katie Herzog
In an alternate universe, Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election, we have a successful…In China, coal pollution kills someone every 21 seconds
Aug 14, 2015, 12:44 pm By Katie Herzog
Air pollution from the burning of coal kills more than 4,000 people a day in China, accounting for…Ever experience pangs of guilt when ordering at a restaurant? This comic will feel a little too real
Aug 14, 2015, 5:01 am By Hallie BatemanWelcome to The Last Honest Restaurant! Hallie BatemanFiled under: Article, Business & Technology,…How catching big waves helped turn this pro surfer into a conservationist
Aug 14, 2015, 5:01 am By Maxwell Klinger
Ramon Navarro grew up on a rugged section of Chile’s central coast known as Punto de Lobos. It’s…Move over MoMA, New York’s new climate change museum is about to be the hottest place in town
Aug 13, 2015, 8:15 pm By Clayton Aldern
For many, climate change is not yet personal, but Miranda Massie is trying to change that.…Sorry, paleo fans, science says carbs helped make your brain big
Aug 13, 2015, 7:21 pm By Katie Herzog
Despite the popularity of the protein-heavy, carb-light paleo diet — which purports to replicate…Should you joke about good hair and scary earthquakes?
Aug 13, 2015, 6:41 pm By Katie HerzogI recently went on the MSNBC Shift show Greenhouse to talk with host/hair model Tony Dokoupil about…Can Shell afford the risks of Arctic drilling?
Aug 13, 2015, 6:19 pm By Karl Mathiesen
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Here’s how environmental justice advocates improved Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Aug 13, 2015, 5:49 pm By Jalonne L. White-Newsome
“If you care about low-income, minority communities, start protecting the air that they…How suburban sprawl causes segregation and isolates the poor
Aug 13, 2015, 5:10 pm By Ben Adler
As any sharp sociology major could tell you, a lot of the problems we associate with poverty are not…From cutting down rainforests to restoring them: A company changes course
Aug 13, 2015, 4:51 pm By Nathanael Johnson
A company that once served as the face of Southeast Asian deforestation is now restoring forests.…This communal fridge is pretty damn amazing
Aug 13, 2015, 2:51 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Anyone who’s ever lived with roommates knows that communal fridges are basically just big boxes…Rio Olympic venues might already be making rowers sick
Aug 13, 2015, 2:07 pm By Katie Herzog
Ahhh, the Olympics! That glorious spectacle of strength, nationalism, performance enhancing drugs,…We used your caffeine addiction to explain our bad consumption habits
Aug 13, 2015, 1:36 pm By Eve AndrewsStop whatever you’re doing — right now — because today is Earth Overshoot Day!…
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