This guy’s typhoon tweets make the climate crisis urgent, touching, and funny all at once
Dec 4, 2014, 1:15 pm By John Light
The worst storm of 2014 is moving across the Western Pacific, headed for the Philippines. There’s…Dear U.N.: Coal plants don’t count as climate-friendly projects
Dec 4, 2014, 12:43 pm By John Light
One of the ways the U.N. hopes to help developing countries prepare for climate change is through a…Stopping a BART train in Michael Brown’s name
Dec 4, 2014, 7:22 am By Heather Smith
Last Friday, I found myself trapped in a BART station in San Francisco, listening to an announcement…Yep, Antarctica is melting away faster than ever
Dec 4, 2014, 7:04 am By Phil Plait
A new report from NASA and UC-Irvine confirms—again—that Antarctica is melting away. The…ALEC (not Baldwin) is trying to destroy the environment
Dec 3, 2014, 7:30 pm By Suzanne Goldenberg
The corporate lobbying network American Legislative Exchange Council, commonly known as ALEC, is…6 fascinating facts about the evolution of food
Dec 3, 2014, 7:10 pm By Liz Core
Don’t mind me — I’ll be over here, staring wide-eyed at my computer screen, sifting through an…NASA is headed for Mars. What, is there something wrong with Earth?
Dec 3, 2014, 6:51 pm By Eve Andrews
Maybe you’re skeptical of whether or not the U.N. Climate Summit in Lima will actually do…Hear that? That’s the sound of the ocean dying
Dec 3, 2014, 6:36 pm By Amelia Urry
An eerie silence is falling over the world’s coral reefs. Usually quite noisy, reefs are…This sausage prank exposes our weird food issues
Dec 3, 2014, 4:17 pm By Nathanael JohnsonI keep watching this video from a hidden-camera prank show (apparently in Brazil). Prank shows, at…Congrats, you survived the 15 hottest years ever
Dec 3, 2014, 3:36 pm By Sam Bliss
This year, we’ve weathered the hottest May, August, and October since humans started keeping…Fracking boom could go bust faster than Obama thinks
Dec 3, 2014, 2:24 pm By Tim McDonnellPresident Obama is fond of touting America’s vast trove of natural gas—and the energy (read:…Nike, Starbucks, and other big businesses step up to support Obama’s climate rules
Dec 3, 2014, 12:34 pm By John Light
Obama’s plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants “is a dagger in the heart of…Here’s what your city will look like when the ice sheets melt
Dec 3, 2014, 7:05 am By Greg Hanscom
Seattle mapmaker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn loves cities. “I spend a lot of time thinking…Turn your city into a swarm of robot farms
Dec 3, 2014, 6:15 am By Nathanael Johnson
There’s unused land even in the most prosperous cities. There are vacant lots that developers hold…Could this lawsuit force Obama to fix his ridiculous coal-leasing program?
Dec 2, 2014, 6:15 pm By Ben Adler
A new lawsuit filed in federal court may force President Obama to stop treating public land as if he…Here’s a cool way to visualize carbon emissions
Dec 2, 2014, 5:25 pm By David RobertsThe World Resources Institute has posted a really well-done interactive visualization on the history…A plan to get solar headed in the right direction — literally
Dec 2, 2014, 4:52 pm By Sam Bliss
Up here in the northern hemisphere, south-facing solar panels produce the most total electricity. So…Roadkill fur is flat-out the hottest fashion trend of the season
Dec 2, 2014, 4:31 pm By Liz Core
Remember that time you were driving down I-5 in the middle of the night, and a scared rabbit…6 reasons why green funders need to get off the fence
Dec 2, 2014, 12:47 pm By David Roberts
I was recently asked to give a short presentation on the subject of political polarization to a…India may be the next big polluter to announce a climate plan
Dec 2, 2014, 12:36 pm By John Light
India is poised to unveil a new climate plan as soon as January, an Indian business publication is…
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