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Tom Steyer launches effort to keep climate deniers out of office
The group intends to show that climate-denying Republican candidates are under the thumbs of major donors like the Koch Brothers.
Duke [Energy] is the real loser
A North Carolina minister just slammed his state's energy monopoly for trying to turn poor people and people of color against solar power.
Climate hawk takes flight
It is with great sadness but also no small degree of pride that we are writing to share the news that David Roberts will be leaving Team Grist.
This startup wants to fight deforestation … with robots
A former NASA engineer launched a new startup that would use drones to plant 1 billion trees a year.
Rand Paul is no moderate on climate change
Don't believe the media hype. Paul is right in line with his party on this one.
Tea Party hires actors to feign indignation over plan to save Everglades
They couldn’t find real people to do Big Sugar’s bidding, so they had to pay $75 each to faux protesters.
Why more pipelines won’t solve the problem of oil-train explosions
Heavy regulation of oil trains will.
Jerry Brown tells climate deniers to wake up and smell the drought
"With the weather that's happening in California, climate change is not a hoax. We're dealing with it, and it's damn serious," said the state's governor.
7 things to know about California’s drought
Everything you ever wanted to know about California's devastating drought but were too afraid to ask.
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Everybody needs a Climate Thing
Each person views climate change from their own idiosyncratic angle — and that could be the key to making progress in fighting the problem.
Help me pack the greenest picnic basket
A reader is trying to avoid plastic picnicware. Umbra forks over the goods.
When, exactly, did humans become an actual geological force?
Now that we've figured out what the Anthropocene is, no one can agree on when it started.
This sea creature has a huge manatee-crush on Leonardo DiCaprio
If manatees could use emojis, this one would be all heart-eyes for Leo and his new eco-resort.
Thawing permafrost could be the worst climate threat you haven’t heard of
Permafrost is supposed to stay frozen -- and it turns out it could be seriously bad news for the atmosphere if it doesn't.
5 years after a deadly coal mine disaster, what’s changed?
As the trial winds up for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, Coal Country is going through tectonic shifts.
This affordable housing complex has a solar farm on its roof
A community solar project in Seattle is powering the real sharing economy.
Watch Wisconsin foodies go beyond cheese
Wisconsinites make salami, harvest cranberries, and cook up Laotian curry.
Want to fix the climate? First, we have to change everything
Gar Alperovitz worked within the systems that helped pass civil rights legislation and launch Earth Day. Today, he says, those systems are closed for business.
What do conservative policy intellectuals think about climate change?
Some respected conservative writers and think tank scholars have more interesting things to say about climate policy than you might think.
Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are
The author argues in a New Yorker essay that our climate obsession is dooming birds, which is pretty much all wrong.
Frackers near you could be breaking the rules — and you’d probably never know
Just three states have readily accessible databases of violations by oil and gas companies.
48 hours that changed the future of rainforests
Inside the high-stakes negotiations with the world's largest palm oil corporation.
Now you can listen to the world’s largest collection of whale sounds
This archive of whale and dolphin recordings is basically "Humpback for Beginners," we assume.
Are your reusable grocery bags making you fat?
A Harvard Business School study found a trend: Shoppers with reusable bags were more likely to buy treats for themselves.
Hello, state lawmakers: Want to ignore climate change? Prepare to lose FEMA funding
New FEMA guidelines could push states to consider how climate change will affect their communities in order to gain access to funding.
New U.S.-Canada bridge will carve through one of Detroit’s loneliest neighborhoods
Delray residents, already hit hard by one urban freeway, wonder if they'll get anything in return this time.
USDA kicks in $31 million to help poor people eat better
New grants support community programs that give food stamp recipients more bang for their fruit and vegetable bucks.
Climate warning labels could be coming to a gas pump near you
San Francisco and Berkeley want to apply the tobacco-labeling approach to fuel.
Shell inches closer to spilling oil all over the Arctic
The Obama administration has given Shell another OK for its plans to drill again off the coast of Alaska, even though spills are expected.
A bishop, a sex-ed trailblazer, and the Notorious RBG herself: It’s Woman Crush Wednesday
This week, our roundup of badass women in the news also includes an Afrofuturist hip-hop duo and fearless South Korean seafood divers.
10 crazy things Republicans said that are not April Fools’ jokes
Unfortunately, GOP politicians actually believe this stuff.
Here are the other tar-sands pipelines Canada is trying to build
Keystone XL is far from the only game in town.
Knight Foundation gives cities $5M for floating farms and fuzzy hats
The Knight Foundation just wrote $5 million in checks to support all manner of urban awesomeness.
THEESatisfaction makes music about the planet that actually sounds good
The ladies behind rap duo THEESatisfaction break down a few choice cuts on their latest album, EarthEE.
Agribusiness giant tells suppliers to stop cutting down forests
The move by Archer Daniels Midland is the latest in a heartening procession of corporate commitments to protecting rainforests from devastation.
After Cesar Chavez: The fight for farmworker rights isn’t over
Chavez helped win farmworkers basic human rights, but they still face unacceptable dangers every day.
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