6 problems we’d solve by drawing dicks on them
Apr 27, 2015, 6:05 pm By Katie Herzog
Someone tell the Queen to get out her knight stick: There’s a new hero in town, and his name is…Bees are addicted to pesticide-laden junk food, too
Apr 27, 2015, 3:20 pm By Amelia Urry
We don’t always do what’s good for us, especially when it comes to food. That kale smoothie?…Right-wing think tank wants to convince the pope he’s wrong about climate change
Apr 27, 2015, 1:21 pm By Stephanie Kirchgaessner
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…How the Bay Area’s last slaughterhouse dodged the axe
Apr 27, 2015, 6:04 am By Heather Smith
An hour north of San Francisco is where you’ll find the last slaughterhouse in the Bay Area. I…California’s drought isn’t doomsday, but yes, it will change the state
Apr 27, 2015, 5:09 am By Nathanael Johnson
As California parches, people in the state have begun to ask tough questions. Will we be talking…Is climate change killing my California dream?
Apr 27, 2015, 5:01 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I currently live in Minneapolis and am dreaming about escaping the frozen tundra. My dilemma is…Watch Obama get really angry — and really funny — when he rants about climate change
Apr 26, 2015, 10:24 pm By James WestThis story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Toward the end of his…Hubble just turned 25. Here’s what it was like to grow up with it.
Apr 24, 2015, 8:54 pm By Amelia Urry
Twenty-five years ago today, the 25th of April, the improbable and incomparable Hubble Space…Congratulations, Yellowstone! You’re having giant magma twins
Apr 24, 2015, 8:50 pm By Suzanne JacobsEarth’s gynecologists — er, a group of scientists — took a sonogram of Yellowstone National…What happened to America’s black farmers?
Apr 24, 2015, 8:34 pm By Madeleine Thomas
John Boyd remembers watching a USDA official toss his loan application in the trash. It was the late…We are so good at causing earthquakes that the government is starting to forecast them
Apr 24, 2015, 7:06 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Humans have gotten very good at causing earthquakes. Humans who work for the oil and gas industry,…Pope Francis forces the issue on climate change
Apr 24, 2015, 6:35 pm By Liz Core
High-profile climate researchers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and church officials will…Louis C.K. admits his generation is the worst
Apr 24, 2015, 5:49 pm By Eve AndrewsPretty much all of Louis C.K.’s humor relies on self-deprecation, so it’s not really surprising…Emma Thompson wrote an Oscar-worthy open letter to save the Arctic
Apr 24, 2015, 4:53 pm By Liz Core
In arguably her second-best* work of all time, Emma Thompson has written an open letter to the U.S.…Who should profit from solar energy?
Apr 24, 2015, 4:35 pm By Tim McDonnell
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the ongoing wars over…New rules cutting farm emissions are kind of a big deal
Apr 24, 2015, 2:23 pm By Nathanael Johnson
On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a program to cut net U.S. carbon emissions…Finally, a climate change game you’d actually want to play
Apr 23, 2015, 6:41 pm By Amelia Urry
I never really thought I’d end up playing a video game about geophysics. Well, it’s sort of a…Of course YouTube started with a silly video about elephants
Apr 23, 2015, 5:38 pm By Suzanne JacobsTen years ago today, an earnest young man by the name of Jawed Karim uploaded the world’s first…Are marijuana regulations weeding out family farmers?
Apr 23, 2015, 6:02 am By Nathanael Johnson
Perry asked me not to use his last name. It wasn’t because of the plants in his basement —…Should I kill my weeds by peeing on them?
Apr 23, 2015, 5:07 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I live in an ecosystem where native plants are perpetually engaged in epic competition with…
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