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It doesn’t mean the world can wait until 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, or that chaos will erupt in 2030. Here’s what the science shows.
read moreIt doesn’t mean the world can wait until 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, or that chaos will erupt in 2030. Here’s what the science shows.
read moreHumans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.
read moreWild fires burning in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves,100 year floods happening yearly are signs of our times, the worst of times.
read moreHow often do you wonder about what can go in the recycling bin and what cannot? The answer varies from municipality to municipality, as each has its own facilities for recovering waste materials and not all are the same.
read moreThe Tennessee Valley Authority, popularly known as the TVA, is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity to business customers and local power companies. According to its website, “it serves 10 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. It receives no taxpayer funding and derives virtually all of its revenues from sales of electricity.
read moreThe tiny flats are cheap to build, but critics say their use shows ‘something has gone very wrong’
read moreWe’re mad,” says 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor. “We’re really mad.”
Fair enough. Along with the rest of her generation, Villaseñor is expected to face the brunt of human-caused climate change this century. It’s like her parents burned a box of pizza rolls and left her to clean up the mess — except instead of nuclearly hot tomato paste, the object of abuse is what remains of life on Earth.
read morePeppered with complaints from farmers fed up with President Trump’s trade war, Sonny Perdue found his patience wearing thin. Mr. Perdue, the agriculture secretary and the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month, tried to break the ice with a joke.
read moreLeonardo DiCaprio is one of the most prominent celebrities sharing outdated photos of the Amazon on fire.
read moreIn most respects, climate change is a horror show. As the temperature rises, the conditions in which most of human civilization grew in fade away. The shorelines humans have almost always known are changing. Places we prefer to be wet are drying out, and some places we know to be dry are greening up a bit. Storms are getting more severe in some places, and they’re going away in others.
read morePoor polar bear. The long-time poster child for a warming world, it’s dying despite scientists’ direst warnings — and, lately, it’s become a symbol of how bear-hugging big green groups for too long ignored the humans living on the frontlinesof climate change.
read moreThe fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
read moreThe 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.
read moreThey generate heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.
read moreInternational concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest
read moreResidents in South Portland, Maine, packed a meeting to find out about the noxious fumes fouling the air they breathe. The news, one official said, was bad.
read moreFrom skyrocketing property values to the much-beleaguered Venice Boulevard road diet, Mar Vista has seen its ups and downs. Sadly, the neighborhood’s latest hot-potato issue is the homeless encampment that occupies the two blocks dedicated to Sunday’s popular Mar Vista Farmers Market.
read moreWestern coal states want an export terminal on the Columbia River. Washington state has concerns about the company and its environmental and climate impact.
read moreEnvironmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt ‘extinction plan.’
read moreIn July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs.
read moreEarlier this month, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a dire report highlighting the enormous environmental impact of agriculture. But the report also pointed to a clear way for us to feed more mouths without causing more planetary destruction: We can stop wasting food.
read moreOne year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20
read moreCan an alliance of Germany’s political parties save them?
read moreAmerica Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
read moreVolunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
read moreAs climate change brings dangerous heat waves, too little is being done to better warn patients or physicians of the growing risk, medical experts say.
read moreIf the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.
read moreMourners gathered in Iceland yesterday to commemorate the loss of Ok, a glacier that is not longer a glacier because most of its ice has melted away due to climate change.
read moreIt ordered an expanded review for Vineyard Wind at the same time Trump is weakening environmental rules for fossil fuel projects that contribute to climate change.
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