Judgment Days for John Muir and Margaret Sanger
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood of NY dismantle their own Monuments.
Summertime and the Living’s Uneasy
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the “best of times, worst of times” tradition, an analysis of what’s to come in 2020.
Cloudless Skies Hasten Greenland’s Ice Loss
Reading Time: 2 minutes The bad news about Greenland’s ice loss has just got even worse. Blame it on mischief by blue skies all day long.
Norway and the A-ha Moment That Made Electric Cars the Answer
Reading Time: 6 minutes A publicity stunt by the lead singer of a popular band led Norway to become the world’s electric-vehicle leader.
Could COVID-19 Lead to a Cleaner World?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Drastic steps taken to contain the coronavirus pandemic have led to a significant reduction in pollution. Are some of the changes here to stay and can they help slow climate change?
Trump’s Dirty Deed: Latest EPA Deregulation Will Kill Americans
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Trump White House has not let a pandemic interfere with its drive to gut environmental regulations.
Scientist Is Saving Corals by Breeding Them in the Lab
Reading Time: 6 minutes Jamie Craggs is breeding corals in the lab, hoping to combat the effect of climate change on the world’s underwater jungles
How to Get Climate Change Deniers on Board With Science
Reading Time: 6 minutes If neither scientific consensus nor the increasingly obvious effects of global warming can convince climate change deniers, what will?
Water Woes in the World’s Wealthiest Nation
Reading Time: 10 minutes There’s a secret water crisis in America. Two million people across the US lack access to running water and basic indoor plumbing. Keystone, WV, has gone without reliable water for almost a year. Local Tori Satow is fed up and determined to make a difference.
Can Free Public Transportation Transform a Country?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This week, Luxembourg became the first country that offers free public transit for all. But it remains to be seen whether the initiative will have the traffic, environmental, and equality impacts the small nation is hoping for.