We just had a very hot January
Feb 20, 2015, 7:36 pm By Andrea Thompson
The warmth that led 2014 to become the hottest year on record has continued into 2015, with last…How Michele Bachman’s lies inspired Factcheck.org
Feb 20, 2015, 6:54 pm By Kishore HariThis story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Inquiring Minds is a…Meet the latest threat to your community: Miniature libraries
Feb 20, 2015, 5:03 pm By Liz Core
As soon as I finish the last season of Parks and Rec, I’m hoping to turn a pile of dusty…TransCanada has big new plans for moving oil around, and you won’t like them
Feb 20, 2015, 4:32 pm By John Light
TransCanada, the company pushing the Keystone XL plan, is cooking up some new projects. Watch out.…Auto-flush toilets just don’t know when to quit
Feb 20, 2015, 4:15 pm By Katie Herzog
It’s a common scene: You’re hovering above the toilet in some airport or rest stop, when,…Watch Minnesota’s food scene grow. Danger: This will make you want to become a farmer
Feb 20, 2015, 3:42 pm By Darby Minow SmithMinnesota might be freezing right now, but this The Victory Garden’s Edible Feast episode will…Why are we yelling at utilities and not their regulators?
Feb 20, 2015, 1:10 pm By David Roberts
A few weeks ago, the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for investor-owned power utilities…6 reasons why cargo bikes are the next big thing
Feb 20, 2015, 11:09 am By Chris Bruntlett
After (quite literally) walking away from car-ownership five years ago, we experimented with many…Meet the last 3 millennials who don’t have smartphones
Feb 19, 2015, 9:07 pm By Suzanne JacobsThe smartphone-less millennial is a dying breed. If you’re lucky, you might spot them in their…Alaskan tribes given tiny amount of cash for climate change resilience
Feb 19, 2015, 7:26 pm By Liz Core
Alaskan Native American communities are soon to be the happy(ish?) recipients of $8 million from…URGENT: MUSCLED TORSOS ACROSS AMERICA IN DANGER
Feb 19, 2015, 6:52 pm By Eve AndrewsLet it be known: I don’t hate bros. I really don’t! Bro culture is a living nightmare of…Natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Europe too
Feb 19, 2015, 5:58 pm By John Light
Shell and ExxonMobil, as well as the Dutch government, ignored for decades that drilling in…Happy birthday, Papa Climate Change!
Feb 19, 2015, 5:53 pm By Amelia Urry
Today, February 19th, is a very special day. Today is the birthday of Svante Arrhenius. Who, you…Gentrification might be real, but it’s the least of Chicago’s worries
Feb 19, 2015, 11:15 am By Natalie Y. Moore
When we talk about gentrification, it’s usually in terms of comical caricatures: white hipsters…Understanding Obama’s suckiness on climate
Feb 19, 2015, 8:00 am By David Roberts
Our own Ben Adler recently published a piece called “8 ways Obama sucks on climate.” It prompted…Are all K-Cup-style coffeemakers totally terrible?
Feb 19, 2015, 7:09 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I saw the #killthekcup video. Do all single-serving coffeemakers cause the same waste problem?…All the best science experiments involve dynamite
Feb 18, 2015, 8:17 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Picture a scientist. Good. Now make that scientist a geologist who studies tectonic plate movement.…New Yorkers’ review of New York is actually a poignant portrait of a city
Feb 18, 2015, 7:41 pm By Eve Andrews
Not to confirm what New Yorkers from Jay-Z to Taylor Swift (ha!) already brag about, incessantly and…Mounties claim anti-oil activists are a threat to Canada
Feb 18, 2015, 5:38 pm By John Light
If you consider yourself part of the “anti-petroleum movement,” you’ve joined ranks with…Are shrooms the new pesticide?
Feb 18, 2015, 5:36 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Scientists in Ireland have found that growing fungus inside barley helps the plants ward off…
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