Fracking chemicals could mess with your hormones
Jun 24, 2014, 5:56 pm By John Upton
Feeling overly hormonal? Not hormonal enough? Just wait for frackers to move into your neighborhood…A beetles invasion threatens your cup of coffee
Jun 24, 2014, 5:21 pm By Jim Meyer
Mornings can be tough. Sure the cat puked on your pillow and the basement was flooded and some…Climate action could spur $2 trillion in economic growth in 2030 alone
Jun 24, 2014, 4:36 pm By John Upton
John UptonUnclogging streets in India could encourage economic growth and help save the climate at…How to not lose your shirt when the climate goes bust
Jun 24, 2014, 4:24 pm By Heather Smith
Much of the computing power that crunches the data for the Bloomberg financial empire lives in a…These maps show how many brutally hot days you will suffer when you’re old
Jun 24, 2014, 2:34 pm By Tim McDonnell
One of the main difficulties in getting people to care about climate change is that it can be hard…We just had the hottest May on record (until next May)
Jun 24, 2014, 2:28 pm By Jim Meyer
NOAA’s monthly State of the Climate report came out and, spoiler alert, it wasn’t good. It turns…Organic farming is so much harder than just getting stoned and picking tomatoes
Jun 24, 2014, 1:01 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Sarah BayCelery harvest at New Morning Farm. Arlo Crawford’s memoir, A Farm Dies Once a Year, is…Why the locavore movement’s next big move is seafood
Jun 24, 2014, 9:06 am By Amelia Urry
When conscientious omnivores swept the U.S. food scene with their locavore antics, the focus was…Thanks to shrinking sea ice, National Geographic puts global warming on the map
Jun 24, 2014, 8:08 am By Samantha Larson
Every once in awhile, we reach a moment in history that so radically changes our concept of the…The hidden angles of the debate over beach access
Jun 24, 2014, 7:37 am By Brentin Mock
Marcin WicharyYou can’t go here anymore. Yesterday The New York Times explored the problem of…The Supreme Court’s latest greenhouse-gas ruling is a 97% victory for the environment
Jun 23, 2014, 10:27 pm By Doug Kendall
One doesn’t typically associate Justice Antonin Scalia with environmental victories, but…U.S. mayors call for emergency action on climate change
Jun 23, 2014, 8:43 pm By John Upton
America’s mayors have sent an urgent message to federal lawmakers – and to the nation:…Cargo ships carry a lot of climate baggage
Jun 23, 2014, 5:54 pm By Jim Meyer
Buying local has become a bit of a mantra. We understand that it takes a heck of a lot of…Climate change is the next market crash, says former treasury secretary
Jun 23, 2014, 5:36 pm By Heather Smith
It’s not every day that a Republican finance guy — one who remembers George W. Bush as a…Disprove global warming, score $10,000
Jun 23, 2014, 4:59 pm By John Upton
Hey, unwelcome anti-science trolls visiting this site, you could make yourselves $10,000 richer —…Now climate hawks have their own super PAC
Jun 23, 2014, 3:18 pm By Ben Adler
A realization has been gradually dawning on climate change activists: Too many Democrats vote the…A mapping group at MIT wants to show us the way to greener cities
Jun 23, 2014, 8:09 am By Samantha Larson
Walking down the street, that feeling swells up inside you – the buildings, the restaurants, the…Ask Umbra: Is it safe to use newspaper as garden mulch?
Jun 23, 2014, 7:03 am By Ask Umbra®
Send your question to Umbra! Q. I am able to buy from our local newspaper company the ends of their…Weed wisdom: What to do when nature outfoxes herbicides
Jun 23, 2014, 6:32 am By Nathanael Johnson
Delaware AgricultureA field dominated by palmer amaranth, or pigweed, one of the plants that has…Nebraska utility is phasing out some coal units, and it won’t cost that much
Jun 22, 2014, 7:55 am By Kate Sheppard
The Omaha Public Power District in Nebraska announced on Thursday that it will retire three coal…
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