Pittsburgh’s kale-lovers crying after another loss to the frackers
Aug 15, 2014, 7:30 pm By Eve Andrews
About three weeks ago, we wrote about a natural gas compressor station that was proposed adjacent to…Just living close to Walmart makes you fat
Aug 15, 2014, 5:34 pm By Sara Bernard
New research published in the Journal of Transport & Health offers more evidence to bolster…How one Pacific Northwest tribe is carving out a resistance to coal — and winning
Aug 15, 2014, 5:32 pm By Amber Cortes
The Lummi Nation, a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest, has taken an uncompromising…Why the scientific case against fracking keeps getting stronger
Aug 15, 2014, 4:57 pm By Chris Mooney
On the political right, it’s pretty popular these days to claim that the left exaggerates…Killing young black men like Michael Brown is unsustainable in every sense of the word
Aug 15, 2014, 1:44 pm By Brentin Mock
“You took my son away from me,” Lesley McSpadden told news cameras on Monday. “Do you know how…There’s oil-by-rail good news, and oil-by-rail bad news
Aug 15, 2014, 1:15 pm By Heather Smith
Trains — does anything else have cooler whistles? Does anything else have more impenetrable…The men of Tinder have some pretty wild thoughts about women and climate change
Aug 15, 2014, 8:06 am By Eve Andrews
So, I just got back from a week in Bali — wait, don’t go! It was for work! I had the…Skip the Shark Week mockumentaries and watch real sharks on these live cams instead
Aug 15, 2014, 7:05 am By Jim Meyer
You love watching sharks — who doesn’t? But it’s hard to ignore the fact that the Discovery…Want to step up your pesto game? Prepare to get down and dirty (with nature)
Aug 15, 2014, 6:01 am By Eve AndrewsThe beautiful thing about pesto is that you can put almost any combination of greens and nuts into…Thanks to drought, panning for gold is gaining popularity in California
Aug 14, 2014, 8:12 pm By Madeleine Thomas
California’s Gold Rush may have peaked more than a century ago, but thanks to the state’s…This woman has spent almost a year underwater. Here’s why she’s your new hero
Aug 14, 2014, 5:09 pm By Samantha Larson
Forget what you’ve been told. The main problem the ocean faces is not acidification. It’s not…Your iPhone is about to get (a little) less toxic
Aug 14, 2014, 3:48 pm By Sara Bernard
Apple is upping its green game in a big way, thanks in no small part to…Texas messes with Texas, pits landowners against pipeline-builders
Aug 14, 2014, 3:00 pm By Heather Smith
Texas has a complicated relationship with oil. On the one hand, it’s a state that’s really into…When it comes to roads and rail, we force government to lie to us
Aug 14, 2014, 1:45 pm By Nathanael Johnson
I’m taking a one-post hiatus from the food beat to write about high-speed rail. I love geeking out…Who’s our best hope for fighting climate change?
Aug 14, 2014, 8:09 am By Eve Andrews
Bali is an undeniably sexy place, and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise should not be trusted…Ask Umbra: Is “canned air” bad for the planet?
Aug 14, 2014, 7:04 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I’m hoping that you can settle an ongoing office debate. My colleagues and I recently staged an…Foraged fruit leather is like a Fruit Roll-Up, only with fruit in it
Aug 14, 2014, 6:06 am By Eve AndrewsImagine a Fruit Roll-Up that isn’t mostly preservatives, fluorescent dyes, and artificial…U.S. bikeshares have killed a shocking amount of people
Aug 13, 2014, 5:42 pm By Madeleine Thomas
That number is zero: Since the nation’s first bikeshare program launched in 2007 in Tulsa, Okla.,…Fracking operations get even closer to drinking water sources than we thought
Aug 13, 2014, 5:23 pm By Samantha Larson
Fracking companies have tried their best to quell the public’s fears about the practice. But, uh,…Ants will save the world! Wait, ants?
Aug 13, 2014, 3:25 pm By Sara Bernard
Our planet is in the hot seat, so of course we’re scrambling to find ways to suck up atmospheric…
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