China’s coal use is actually dropping for the first time this century
Oct 22, 2014, 4:27 pm By John Light
We told you last week that the Chinese people are concerned about pollution — according to Pew,…Bette Midler knows the plastic we should REALLY be worried about (it’s not surgery)
Oct 22, 2014, 2:14 pm By Amelia Urry
When the internet vultures descend like, well, vultures, on the latest celebrity to undergo the…Pumpkins’ biggest threat isn’t Mischief Night or Billy Corgan
Oct 22, 2014, 1:53 pm By Sam Bliss
California’s neverending drought spares no plant, animal, or holiday tradition. The…Watch dinosaurs defend the Gates Foundation’s farm policy
Oct 22, 2014, 1:24 pm By Nathanael JohnsonSome food activists are extremely worried about all the money the Bill and Melinda Gates…These teens are taking their climate lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court
Oct 22, 2014, 8:00 am By Sam Bliss
Those feisty, litigious climate-hawk kids just won’t go away. Back in 2011, we wrote about a group…Craft brewers join the fight against natural gas pipelines
Oct 22, 2014, 7:02 am By Mason Adams
On a recent afternoon, visitors packed into Blue Mountain Brewery, one of three craft breweries in…We were promised methane regulations! Where are our methane regulations?!
7:39pm By Heather Smith
To the tune of “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”: How do you solve a problem like…Turns out coral reefs could help mend human bones
6:16pm By Madeleine Thomas
Anyone who has ever had a bone graft knows how gnarly the operation can be. And if you’re having…This could be the hottest year on record, again
3:06pm By John Light
Hold onto your hats. Or parasols. It’s getting warmer. The land and sea temperatures are in for…Rooftop solar is just the beginning; utilities must innovate or go extinct
1:28pm By David Roberts
By now, most people are aware that solar power — particularly distributed solar power, in the…How skyrocketing development in Texas could suck the state dry
12:59pm By Aarian Marshall
If you could speed-watch the past 15 years in Texas — set your thumb on the edge of a flipbook…U.K. climate activists take aim at banks
12:28pm By Heather Smith
There’s a new divestment movement in town. It has not set its sights on universities or pension…These conservatives make the case for vibrant cities. Most of their friends ignore them.
10:45am By Ben Adler
At first glance, smart growth and New Urbanism would seem like issues that break down along typical…Watch Mark Bittman explain the virtues of fast food
7:08am By Eve AndrewsWhen I was 20, my mother bought me a copy of Mark Bittman’s seminal How To Cook Everything as a…Bosco Verticale is Italian for dope urban treehouse
Mon 7:15pm By Sam Bliss
This just in: We no longer have to choose between living in the city or the forest. A pair of new…You know it’s good when your biggest transportation problem is too many cyclists
Mon 6:11pm By Amelia Urry
It must be nice to be Dutch: While the rest of us are dealing with ensuring reasonable access to…Vegan because plants don’t have feelings? You’re going to need a new reason.
Mon 4:57pm By Madeleine Thomas
We’ve all been to that dark, dreaded place deep in the corners of our minds before, a place where…Clean energy advocates need to speak up if they want black lawmakers to hear them
Mon 4:42pm By Brentin Mock
Here’s a quick summary of last week’s series on the debate over “net metering” — allowing…Now congressional Republicans are digging through scientists’ grant proposals
Mon 2:56pm By Tim McDonnell
When scientists across the country need money for research projects, one place they often turn is…We can provide power to everyone without a huge leap in emissions, study finds
Mon 2:51pm By John Light
When we talk about international climate action, it’s often taken for granted that developing…
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