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…Barbra Streisand behind global warming hoax, says Sen. Inhofe
Dec 2, 2014, 11:52 am By David CornThe recent news on the front page of the New York Times was stark. As thousands of diplomats were…Cheap gasoline summons the dread SUV from its jumbo grave
Dec 2, 2014, 8:33 am By Heather Smith
Environmentally, oil prices are a wash, no matter what. If oil prices rise, people use less of the…
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