Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country
Aug 11, 2014, 2:02 pm By Julia Lurie
Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There’s a good chance that your water comes from…Keystone XL could be even worse than you thought
Aug 11, 2014, 1:56 pm By Lisa Hymas
If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, it could lead to up to four times as much CO2 pollution as the…5 things I learned from DOJ’s elder statesman on environmental justice
Aug 11, 2014, 1:43 pm By Brentin Mock
So, I’m sitting in the cafe in Politics & Prose preparing to blog on this video that the…Teaching a humongous foundation to listen to small farmers
Aug 11, 2014, 12:25 pm By Nathanael Johnson
These days, Sam Dryden speaks in a soft whisper. When I met him for breakfast in the restaurant at…Fabien Cousteau pulls a Spongebob to live at the bottom of the sea for a month
Aug 11, 2014, 8:02 am By Jim Meyer
That Fabien Cousteau would become an ocean explorer may have been preordained. Fabien’s…Ask Umbra: How can I green up my back-to-school shopping?
Aug 11, 2014, 7:03 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Well, it’s that time of the year again: back-to-school season. I’ve been trying to figure out…Sort of like the love train, but with a rapping polar bear
Aug 11, 2014, 5:45 am By Heather Smith
Group travel on Amtrak is something that is finessed by a select few: the nerds, the Mennonites, and…What to do with an overload of chard
8:52am By Alexandra Stafford
It’s the season of overflowing market bags, heavy CSA boxes, and gardens run amok. Alexandra…Copenhagen’s newest bike lane totally rules
Aug 8, 2014, 7:50 pm By Madeleine Thomas
In Copenhagen, where bicycles outnumber people and nearly 40 percent of residents cycle to work,…The little seed library that could … get busted by a state ag department
Aug 8, 2014, 7:14 pm By Heather Smith
It seemed like one of the most wholesome, homespun things that a local library could do — but it…Bacon-fueled motorcycle goes whole hog
Aug 8, 2014, 5:53 pm By Sara Bernard
And the bacon craze continues: A motorcycle that runs on bacon grease is about it take a…The world’s first official climate refugees land in New Zealand
Aug 8, 2014, 4:59 pm By Ted Alvarez
Among other cataclysmic upheavals, climate change is expected to produce waves of refugees seeking…No, climate change won’t kill the planet. But it’ll kill plenty of people!
Aug 8, 2014, 4:53 pm By Jeremy Porter
“It’s not warming, it’s dying.” That’s the message from the man behind the “I ♥ NY”…This giant Canadian mine spill doesn’t make us feel good about Alaska’s Pebble Mine
Aug 8, 2014, 4:34 pm By Darby Minow Smith
Well, damn. If a picture’s worth 1,000 words, my swear jar just got full enough to send all of…Will fracking in the Gulf of Mexico lead to the next Deepwater Horizon?
Aug 8, 2014, 3:39 pm By Heather Smith
If you read the financial papers, you may be aware that the Gulf of Mexico is looking like a giant,…“I Heart NY” mastermind launches catchy climate change logo
Aug 8, 2014, 1:39 pm By Andrew Simon
Design legend Milton Glaser created the iconic “I ♥ NY” logo and cofounded New…Teaching kids about climate change? Read them a classic story
Aug 8, 2014, 12:15 pm By Lori Rotenberk
Last week, watching kids frolic at a playground from the window of his home office, Liam Heneghan…The global warming “pause,” explained by way of a cheeseburger
Aug 8, 2014, 8:05 am By Jim Meyer
Climate change and the planet work a lot like the ill-fated McD.L.T. cheeseburger, according to a…African-American Denali climbing team reaches new heights in this film
Aug 8, 2014, 7:32 am By Sara BernardLast summer, nine intrepid souls celebrated the 100th ascent of Alaska’s snow-capped Denali — at…America’s favorite nut is bad for water, good for cows
Aug 7, 2014, 8:11 pm By Samantha Larson
We’ve been told to lay off the almond milk, but that’s not gonna stop us from gobbling up the…
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