Climate & Energy
Politics
Obama pledges $3 billion for world climate fund, makes the GOP look even dumber
As Obama, our allies in Europe, and even China, commit to reduce emissions, Republicans are becoming more isolated by the day.
Climate & Energy
The Dark Lord of Coal Country could (finally) spend time behind bars
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, has been indicted on charges that could land him in jail for 30 years.
Climate & Energy
Phew! Texas textbook publisher ditches climate denial
Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, nixes climate denial from its Texas textbook. Huzzah!
Business & Technology
This solar-powered, glow-in-the-dark, Van Gogh-inspired bike path will blow your mind
Goodbye everyone, we're moving to the Netherlands.
Climate & Energy
Big Energy has tried to turn people of color against solar power since forever
Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.
Going for a hat trick?
Now that China and the U.S. have a climate deal, will India step up next?
India is the world's No. 3 carbon emitter, and now it's in the hot seat.
Climate & Energy
What climate hawks can learn from the midterms: Messaging and money matter
The mainstream media spun the election as a debilitating blow for climate advocates. That's the wrong takeaway.
Climate & Energy
No, the new climate deal does not let China off the hook
Republicans say the agreement doesn't require China to do anything. Here's why they're wrong.
Here be ocean acidification
This map shows where we’ve screwed the oceans most
Now we know exactly which places are suffering most from ocean acidification.
Climate & Energy
Obama’s deal with China is a big win for solar, nuclear, and clean coal
We could soon see an armistice in the solar trade war.
We're from the GOP and we're here to help ... fry the planet
Meet the Senate leaders who plan to gut the EPA and approve Keystone
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the new Republican committee chairs are all hostile to climate action.
Climate & Energy
4 reasons Republicans are losing their sh*t over the U.S.-China climate deal
The GOP is really not happy about this new agreement. Here's why.
Climate & Energy
5 more things to celebrate besides the big new climate deal
We’ve cherry-picked a few other good news items to keep your serotonin levels elevated.
Caught Wet-handed
California drought leads to a black market for water
California's worst-in-history drought is creating a whole new revenue stream for water poachers.
Climate & Energy
We’ve never seen so many climate hawks happy at one time
Climate hawks are exhibiting rare displays
of optimism on Twitter, thanks to the new U.S-China agreement. See them
while they last!
Climate & Energy
No, Obama’s carbon limits won’t mean massive power outages
Our electric grid's overseer warns that the
EPA’s Clean Power Plan threatens the reliability of our power systems,
but climate change itself is a bigger danger to dependability.
Where There's Smoke ...
Getting stoned in Boulder will now come with a carbon tax
Boulder, in the weed kingdom of Colorado, plans to start charging pot producers extra to offset their carbon costs.
Secrets secrets are no fun
With eyes in the sky, researchers try to link fracking and illness
Scientists and ordinary citizens use
satellite and aerial photography to look for clues connecting
Pennsylvania fracking sites and mysterious maladies.
Holy disappearing smoke!
New U.S.-China climate deal is a game changer
President Obama and Chinese President Xi
Jinping have announced that they are pursuing ambitious new greenhouse
gas emission reductions.
Throwing bad money after bad
Rich countries are still wasting billions on subsidies for fossil fuels
The G20 nations pledged to phase out fossil
fuel subsidies. Instead they're now spending $88 billion a year just on
exploration, not to mention all the other subsidies.
Cities
Pollution could land your kid at the back of the class — and in prison
Recent studies show that air pollution
decreases test scores and contributes to ADHD, both of which can cause
big trouble later in life.
Politics
How the GOP-run Senate could ruin global climate action here and abroad
Undermining the EPA also means undermining climate treaty negotiations in Paris next year.
Climate & Energy
Will China help Obama save the planet?
The U.S.-China talks could be a crucial step in the fight against global warming.
sip in the right direction
California’s new coffee farm isn’t your average joe
Jay Ruskey is the first farmer in the
continental U.S. to grow coffee commercially. Here's what that means for
the future of coffee.
Living
Mamas, please let your daughters grow up to be scientists
An embarrassingly small proportion of real-life scientists are women. This photographer wants to change that.
Climate & Energy
Texas official ignores voters’ ban on fracking
Days after Denton passed its fracking ban,
Texas Railroad Commission Chair Christi Craddick said she'd keep giving
oil companies permits to drill.
The Dead Sea
Dead zones are coming for your rivers, lakes, and oceans
A new study found that climate change is increasing the chance of dead zones worldwide. Oh great.
Climate & Energy
Could this rock save the planet?
Olivine may be kryptonite for climate change, but it fights CO2 as only a mineral can -- incredibly slowly.
Politics
Eugene from the Walking Dead is apparently running for Congress
The dude leading the fight against the zombie apocalypse just took a page from the GOP's climate change playbook.
Cities
What’s more likely to kill you: A car crash or vehicle emissions?
The answer actually surprised us.
This is the dividend
A proposal to save the middle class … by cutting carbon pollution
Peter Barnes' plan is politically impossible, but isn't everything now? So what the hell, let's check it out.
Going up!
This video explains how to make you richer and protect the climate
Author and thinker Peter Barnes gives an elevator pitch for his proposal -- in an actual elevator.
Climate & Energy
Here’s what it looks like when a typhoon devastates your city
A year ago, Typhoon Haiyan slammed the Philippines. Here's what that looked like.
Politics
Stephen Colbert to the children of America: Dream of being a politician with zero grasp of science!
America's coastline, meet your reaper: James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator.
Politics
Was the shocking outcome of Maryland’s gubernatorial race about rain, or something else?
Pundits have blamed the "rain tax" for Anthony Brown's loss to an unknown Republican. But did race play a role?
Gaelic Gale Power
Scotland may achieve energy independence before political independence
Scotland's wind turbines are producin' loads o' lecky.
Balls In Your Court
I watched a bunch of scrotums get snipped and it was totally fine
Before advocating for men to take some reproductive responsibility, we set out to confirm that their options don't suck.
Politics
No, Americans did not just vote to “drill, baby, drill!”
Big Oil and its Republican lackeys claim
that the recent elections give them a mandate to drill. It couldn't be
farther from the truth.
Politics
Surprise! This GOP senator’s theory about volcanoes and climate change is totally wrong
This should not actually come as a surprise.
Living
Move over Beyonce, there’s a new Queen Bee
America's honey royalty don bee beards and travel the U.S. to spread awareness about the little pollinators and colony collapse.
Here Comes the Sun
America’s solar boom, in charts
It's been a bit player, but solar power is about to shine.
Divest-Invest
Here’s how one green group got its investments out of dirty energy
Oregon Environmental Council aligned its portfolio with its values -- and still makes money.
House Warming
Here are the worst places to live in the U.S., and climate change isn’t helping
The Weather Channel found 50 places you SHOULD NOT move, based on natural disasters and climate change. Here's a sampling.
Politics
Meet your new fossil fuel-loving GOP senators
Some are blatant climate deniers. Others hedge on the issue. But they all agree that we should do nothing to stop it.
Climate & Energy
How climate change is like street harassment
It is difficult to convince people that
their actions have, knowingly or unknowingly, contributed to substantial
aggregate harms. It's true of catcalling women on the street and it's
true of climate change.
Food
Hey! Did somebody frack my favorite beer?
A reader worries about fracking water tainting beer. Umbra hops to it.
Politics
Chevron spent $72 per voter to defeat these green candidates — and failed
A refinery town's activist and green governing coalition prevails in the face of an oil company's millions.
Politics
Green groups spent millions on the midterms. What did it get them?
That money — it looks like there was at
least $85 million — bought a lot of ads. But on Election Day, it's not
clear that it paid off.
Climate & Energy
Get ready for another extremely cold winter starting NOW
We'd joke that winter is coming, but our tongues are stuck to a light pole.
the bright side
The country is going to hell, but at least your bus may come on time
The results of the election got you down? Good news! It wasn't a total train wreck.
Politics
Holy sh*t, a town in Texas just banned fracking
Eight fracking bans went to voters during these elections. Half of them won, including one in the Lone Star State.
Climate & Energy
Clean energy may be dead in D.C., but here’s how you can lead the charge
OpenIDEO wants your ideas for a renewable-energy-filled future.
Politics
The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem
Republicans' top priorities: approving the
Keystone XL pipeline and blocking Obama's plan to curb CO2 emissions
from power plants.
Greenhouse Effect
Which plants will survive climate change? This greenhouse could have the answers
The greenhouse is owned by a biotech company in Durham, N.C., that understands that resilience means money.
Climate & Energy
Meet the mom leading the fight against fracking in Santa Barbara
Rebecca Claassen has put her life on hold
to fight for Measure P, a ban on fracking and similar techniques in
Santa Barbara County.
Climate & Energy
3,500 voters in North Dakota could put the brakes on huge fracking boom
Voters on a small Native American reservation are choosing between two candidates who want to crack down on the oil industry.
Climate & Energy
Tar-sands industry loses $17.1 billion thanks to public opposition
A new report spells out the financial costs of the public opposition to tar-sands development.
Climate & Energy
The Tom Steyer campaigns you haven’t heard about yet
The political moneyman and climate activist is spending big to put Democrats in control of key state legislatures.
Politics
In Richmond, Calif., it’s Chevron’s $3 million vs. a green slate
A refinery town's reputation as an
environmental-justice pioneer is in peril, thanks to a pile of oil money
and a torrent of negative ads.
Food
Is snacking on a scorpion sexy?
Enter SexyFood, a French startup that's trying to get you to eat bugs -- hopefully with more success than we've ever had.
Climate & Energy
We pay inmates $3 a day to fight California wildfires
The program is sold as a way to teach criminals the virtue of hard work. But who are the real criminals here?
Oliver, Clothes Off
John Oliver takes on ALEC, state legislatures, and (we hope) a threesome with us and Jon Stewart
John Oliver of "Last Week Tonight" shreds ALEC and the ridiculous politicians who support their shite-for-the-climate policies.
Grumpier old men
The Weather Channel founder is the climate-denying grandpa you never had
John Coleman is a climate denier, The Weather Channel co-founder, and a serious grumpus.
Climate & Energy
Wait, who says people of color don’t care about the climate?
A new poll claims that blacks and Latinos
are far too busy fretting about jobs and schools to worry about climate
change. That's just bunk.
Climate & Energy
Rotten odors rouse citizen sleuths in Pennsylvania gas patch
Since government won't monitor whether the
oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in.
Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.
Climate & Energy
The 10 things you need to know from the new IPCC climate report
This is -- finally and for real -- the last installment of the report. Here's what it says in a nutshell.
Climate & Energy
After Irene, Vermont shows us what climate resilience looks like
Hurricane Irene pummeled rural communities in Vermont. Their response can teach us a lot about community.
Climate & Energy
Fracking pollution just went airborne
A new study published this week shows that
fracking chemicals aren't just polluting our waterways, they're taking
to the skies, too.
Food
Scary maps show how bad California’s water shortage is
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
Politics
Is this House Republican about to lose to a climate hawk?
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) lurched to the right to fend off primary challengers. Now, he may pay the price.
Climate & Energy
32 countries where global warming could make violence worse
A new report ranks the countries most vulnerable to climate conflicts and food insecurity.
Climate & Energy
Texas lobbying group busted for phony anti-solar campaign
The Consumer Energy Alliance has been
pushing a cynical campaign to turn public opinion against policies that
promote solar power. In Wisconsin, it just backfired.
Climate & Energy
Meet the Amazon tribespeople who beat Chevron in court — but are still fighting for clean water
With the judgment in their favor tied up in
a New York courtroom, indigenous residents of Ecuador's oil-polluted
rainforest are going back to basics.
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