Car batteries may soon last 1,000 years thanks to pine and alfalfa
Oct 15, 2014, 9:25 am By Liz Core
A group of Swedish researchers just discovered an unconventional way to give new life to…Serious about saving the bees? Time to rethink agriculture
Oct 15, 2014, 8:01 am By Manu Saunders
There is much more to “saving the bees” than spring flowers and a golden mascot. Don’t get me…Lost Louisiana: The race to reclaim vanished land back from the sea
Oct 14, 2014, 7:26 pm By Suzanne Goldenberg
The GPS showed David Morgan still on dry land — but the waves bumping beneath his boat revealed…These eentsy creatures are fighting global warming from the bottom of the sea
Oct 14, 2014, 6:40 pm By Amelia Urry
What did you have for breakfast? I bet it wasn’t methane, because that would be bizarre for…How one building is changing the world
Oct 14, 2014, 4:52 pm By Greg Hanscom
It used to be that the Bullitt Foundation “saved the planet” the old-fashioned way, putting its…Why are utilities trying to disconnect communities of color from solar?
Oct 14, 2014, 2:11 pm By Brentin Mock
Yesterday, I wrote about how African-American politicians are being directed by the fossil fuel…Should the feds bail out coal miners?
Oct 14, 2014, 1:35 pm By David Roberts
I wrote yesterday that coal country is largely lost to Democrats, and that’s fine; they don’t…Why clean energy might be cheaper than you think
Oct 14, 2014, 1:15 pm By Sam Bliss
Wind and solar power often get a bad rap for being more expensive than energy produced from fossil…A place with the population of West Virginia just powered a work day entirely on clean energy
Oct 14, 2014, 12:44 pm By James West
Here’s one for the naysayers who insist renewable energy can’t keep the lights on and power our…Drop a brick, feel better about the California drought
Oct 14, 2014, 8:06 am By Sara BernardIf every Californian dropped a brick in the toilet, according to founders of the Drop-A-Brick…Money, death, and danger in North Dakota’s fracking capital
Oct 14, 2014, 7:09 am By Laura Gottesdiener
At 9 p.m. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a cocktail waitress at…Watch Cascadian Farm’s dramatic effort to save the bees
Oct 13, 2014, 8:07 pm By Liz CoreCascadian Farm just got reeaal dramatic in its new campaign to save the bees. The organic food…How deforestation helped unleash Ebola
Oct 13, 2014, 5:38 pm By Amelia Urry
Perhaps you have heard about Ebola, otherwise known as The Most Terrifying Disease Of Our Modern…Meet the mailman who mapped Rio’s slums before Google could
Oct 13, 2014, 5:24 pm By Eve Andrews
There are a lot of potential negative impacts of rapid and expansive urbanization: Stress on limited…Pentagon says we could soon be fighting climate wars
Oct 13, 2014, 4:38 pm By Tim McDonnell
In one of its strongest statements yet on the need to prepare for climate change, the Defense…New York is about to get safer for walkers — if the NYPD does its job
Oct 13, 2014, 4:12 pm By Ben Adler
Last week, the New York City Council passed a bill lowering the default city speed limit from 30…Democrats: Coal country is just not that into you
Oct 13, 2014, 11:47 am By David Roberts
Energy and climate have always been tricky issues for the Democratic Party, which…Today, “Made in Detroit” is a label in search of a story
Oct 13, 2014, 9:00 am By Heather Smith
I am never going to leave this building. This day began with a promise of a tour of small-scale…Here’s how Dirty Energy is co-opting black lawmakers
Oct 13, 2014, 7:54 am By Brentin Mock
It’s worth taking a hard look right now at the National Policy Alliance , a coalition of…Should big business get out of the food business?
Oct 13, 2014, 7:30 am By Nathanael Johnson
Let’s pretend we are the members of a committee with broad power to reshape the food system…
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