Is it a good idea to pay farmers to store carbon in soil?
Mar 20, 2014, 6:02 pm By John Upton
Climate protection is getting down and dirty Down Under. Soil serves as a great reservoir for…Pipeline bursts, makes a big mess in Ohio nature preserve
Mar 20, 2014, 5:21 pm By John Upton
A ruptured oil pipeline has dumped more than 10,000 gallons of crude into a wetland area and nature…Rockstar climber Alex Honnold scales up solar in Navajo Territory
Mar 20, 2014, 4:07 pm By Samantha Larson
Sunny, high 50s, and just a light breeze: It’s a perfect California December morning for rock…Renewables dominate new U.S. electrical capacity
Mar 20, 2014, 4:06 pm By benadler
First, the good news — break out the champagne! The overwhelming majority of new U.S. electrical…Good news for Seattle: These solar panels work best in overcast weather
Mar 20, 2014, 3:15 pm By hrichmond
Next time someone snarks, “Too bad solar panels don’t work in when it’s overcast,” spike…Now you can get solar panels at Best Buy
Mar 20, 2014, 2:30 pm By Amelia Urry
There was an era when putting solar panels on your roof was a time- and money-sucking hassle on par…Watch this dry riverbed fill up in seconds
Mar 20, 2014, 12:52 pm By hrichmond
Nature’s been watching Michael Bay movies again! A crowd near Israel’s dry, dusty Zin River…Billions of pounds of sea life die every year to feed our seafood appetite
Mar 20, 2014, 11:36 am By John Upton
NOAAA ring seal entangled in fishing equipment — aka bycatch. For every pound of sashimi,…This smart air conditioner could make summer less expensive
Mar 20, 2014, 11:29 am By hrichmond
Despite 30 Rock’s jokes about GE, the appliance company isn’t completely ass-backwards. Case in…This island nation just banned all commercial fishing
Mar 20, 2014, 10:18 am By hrichmond
The Micronesian country of Palau, which encompasses 250 islands in an area the size of France, just…Trash from the K-Cups sold last year would circle the Earth almost 11 times
Mar 20, 2014, 9:04 am By hrichmond
K-Cups seem like the complicated Starbucks order of today: an expensive, caffeinated way to express…Ask Umbra: What’s the greenest way to re-side my house?
Mar 20, 2014, 7:05 am By Greg Hanscom
Send your question to Umbra! Q. Do you know anything about polypropylene house siding? We have to…Burgs & the bees : Habitats for humanity: Why our cities need to be ecosystems, too
Mar 20, 2014, 6:03 am By Greg Hanscom
The whole better-greener-more-awesome-cities movement has a problem: We haven’t found a good name…Waste deep in the big muddy : Has modern agriculture cleaned up its dirty runoff act?
Mar 20, 2014, 5:13 am By Nathanael Johnson
USDA photo by Keith WestonEven the best conservation measures could be thwarted by severe weather…Global buying spree is saving solar panel manufacturers
Mar 19, 2014, 5:38 pm By John Upton
The sun is starting to shine again on the solar-panel manufacturing industry, a year after a string…Let this mesmerizing video show you the beauty of Alaska’s ice caves before they’re gone
Mar 19, 2014, 4:56 pm By jesszimmerman
After the winter we’ve had in a lot of the U.S., we’re not inclined to see a lot of beauty in…From veteran organizer Marshall Ganz, how-tos for activists
Mar 19, 2014, 4:49 pm By Heather Smith
Every spring, Marshall Ganz teaches a class at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on how to…“The Simpsons” now has an extensive public transit system
Mar 19, 2014, 3:46 pm By jesszimmerman
Bart Simpson doesn’t just ride around on a skateboard because he was invented in the ’80s. Until…Whoa there! State lawmakers try to make oil trains safer
Mar 19, 2014, 3:42 pm By John Upton
The wheels of railway safety reform may be in motion in Minnesota, but they’ve ground to a halt in…Florida has just basically given up on trying to keep pythons from taking over the Everglades
Mar 19, 2014, 2:19 pm By hrichmond
Just what you don’t want to hear about your friendly neighborhood national park: It’s crawling…
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