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…Catholics in 45 countries are fasting for climate action
Feb 18, 2015, 5:24 pm By Liz Core
Today is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent — the 40-day period of self-denial for…Which underwater Boston do you like best?
Feb 18, 2015, 5:24 pm By Heather Smith
When I lived in Boston, I was impressed, as so many other residents have been before me, by how the…New York City could be 9 degrees warmer and 39 inches wetter by 2080
Feb 18, 2015, 4:19 pm By John Metcalfe
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Watch the oceans acidify in real time
Feb 18, 2015, 3:29 pm By Amelia UrryWe have a new way to measure ocean acidification … from space! Just as it did for the rotary…Who killed the gayborhood? A Grist podcast investigation
Feb 18, 2015, 2:40 pm By Katie Herzog
WARNING: Salty language Artist John Criscitello is pretty tired of woo girls moving into his…Miami is already sinking under rising sea levels
Feb 18, 2015, 1:57 pm By Neel V. Patel
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Britain’s most powerful politicians agree fighting climate change is a jolly good idea
Feb 18, 2015, 12:56 am By Ben Adler
There’s good climate news from the United Kingdom. On Saturday, the leaders of the country’s…USDA goes FBI on crooks who sell gross meat and run cons on food stamps
Feb 17, 2015, 9:03 pm By Nathanael Johnson
On Friday, U.S. Agriculture Department Inspector General Phyllis Fong spoke to members of the House…12 ways you and everyone you know could die
Feb 17, 2015, 8:35 pm By Amelia Urry
If you’ve ever wondered about the many ways humanity and life as we know it could come to an end,…
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