Frackers are terrorizing school kids in California
Nov 19, 2014, 7:03 am By Brentin Mock
Rodrigo Romo’s daughter is afraid because of the oil and gas drilling activity happening around…The environmental movement is not the Tea Party of the left
Nov 19, 2014, 4:13 am By Ben Adler
Perhaps it was inevitable, in the current Tea Party era, that a noisy progressive movement would…Lame-duck Democratic senators stop the Keystone bill. Will Obama follow their lead?
Nov 19, 2014, 2:59 am By Ben Adler
A Senate bill to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline failed on Tuesday night, coming up one…The Daily Show skewers Detroit over water shut-offs
Nov 18, 2014, 7:33 pm By Heather SmithDid that really happen? Did I really just see The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams visit Detroit and…Neil deGrasse Tyson just told a tiny girl to be a scientist, and now I’m weeping
Nov 18, 2014, 5:24 pm By Eve AndrewsWhat were you doing at the age of 6? Were you cute? Were you very, very, very cute? Did you care…Watch a year’s worth of CO2 swirl around the globe like a horrifying lava lamp
Nov 18, 2014, 5:15 pm By Madeleine ThomasEver wondered what a year’s worth of carbon dioxide emissions looks like in our atmosphere?…Here’s why the GOP just loves fossil fuels
Nov 18, 2014, 3:15 pm By Michael T. Klare
Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm…Meet the women who grow your food
Nov 18, 2014, 1:40 pm By Liz Core
For five years, photographer Audra Mulkern has been taking documenting farmers, farms, and local…Pipeline builder advised to gin up fake grassroots support
Nov 18, 2014, 1:22 pm By Kate Sheppard
TransCanada Corp., the company seeking to build the Keystone XL pipeline, has teamed up with the…Comedian Wyatt Cenac on mayo, hair salons, and gentrification
Nov 18, 2014, 1:04 pm By Brentin Mock
You might know comedian Wyatt Cenac from his time at the Daily Show, where he played one of Jon…Would you like some spies with that right to peacefully assemble?
Nov 18, 2014, 8:00 am By Heather Smith
For years, it’s been accepted knowledge in environmental circles that if you’re planning a…We’re eating chocolate faster than we can grow it
Nov 18, 2014, 7:04 am By Amelia Urry
A confession: I want chocolate. I want to eat unreasonable amounts of the stuff — which is a…While we were busy fighting over Keystone, Big Oil went and found work-arounds
Nov 17, 2014, 6:16 pm By Sam Bliss
A day before the Senate is expected to vote to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Bloomberg hits…What a shrimp treadmill can teach us about science funding
Nov 17, 2014, 5:15 pm By Amelia UrryWhen you picture the extravagancies of government spending, what do you see? If your answer…Rising seas are swallowing this Republican’s district. Will he do anything about it?
Nov 17, 2014, 5:13 pm By Tim Murphy
Don’t expect much drama when Louisiana voters go to polls again next month – especially in the…Watch out, NYC, your backyard carrots might be pumped full of lead
Nov 17, 2014, 4:31 pm By Liz Core
If you bought your radishes fresh from a Brooklyn urban farmer this morning, you may want to think…Is 4-H trying to hook African farmers on costly seeds?
Nov 17, 2014, 8:19 am By Nathanael Johnson
When Keira Butler went to Ghana to research what the farm education program 4-H was doing there, she…Should we feed needy families junk food?
Nov 17, 2014, 7:01 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I work with many families who earn pretty low incomes. I am often asked by well-intentioned…Why the Democrats are stupid to allow a Senate vote on Keystone
Nov 17, 2014, 6:07 am By Ben Adler
Last week, the Democrats came up with the following stroke of strategic brilliance: Use their last…What Harvey Milk can teach today’s green activists
Nov 17, 2014, 5:15 am By Heather Smith
Since the days of the big Keystone protests, it’s become clear that the focus of environmental…
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