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Climate Change
December 31, 2015
Tom Philpott, Julia Lurie
Here’s the Real Problem With Almonds
December 30, 2015
Andrew Zaleski
Smith Island Is Sinking Into the Chesapeake Bay Thanks to Climate Change
December 29, 2015
Tom Philpott
There’s a Place That’s Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It’s Not California.
December 28, 2015
James West
This Cheat Sheet Will Make You Win Every Climate Argument
December 25, 2015
Luke Whelan
Surprise! These 15 Common Grocery Store Items Are Almost Never Recyclable
So think twice before chucking them in the blue bin.
December 24, 2015
Tom Philpott
California Could Be the Next Saudi Arabia
December 23, 2015
Emily Badger
America’s Cities Are Still Too Afraid to Make Driving Unappealing
Tough policies are the ones that would truly change commuter habits, but we're barely seeing them.
December 23, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Savor This Moment, Climate Activists. Next Year Is Going to Get Ugly.
The Paris deal is the last moment of hope we'll see in a long time.
December 22, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Most Republicans support action on climate change, even though their elected leaders don’t.
December 22, 2015
Tim McDonnell
Why Flying Home for the Holidays Might Be Greener Than Driving
Thanks to a host of ingenious tech tweaks, air travel is light-years better for the planet than it used to be.
December 21, 2015
Jessica Prois
Voluntary Birth Control Is a Climate Change Solution Nobody Wants To Talk About
A growing population means greater environmental strain. The solution could be rooted in women's rights.
December 20, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Climate change only came up in the first and last minute of the Democratic debate.
December 18, 2015
Uri Friedman
A 19th Century Glimpse of a Changing Climate
John Ruskin’s warnings about a “plague-wind” offer one way of looking at the Paris deal.
December 17, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Was this radio interviewer’s Hillary Clinton exclusive scooped by Hillary Clinton?
December 17, 2015
Esther Breger
Tonight, President Obama joins an illustrious group that counts Channing Tatum, Zac Efron, and Kate Hudson as members.
December 17, 2015
Carolyn Gregoire
Exposure to Nature May Reduce Crime, Strengthen Communities
Communities where people see and spend more time in nature have higher levels of cohesion.
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Congress is so inept, it can’t even block Barack Obama’s climate agenda.
December 16, 2015
Arthur Neslen
A Coal Lobby Boss Just Compared His Industry to the Slave Trade
December 16, 2015
The New Republic Staff
The Next Frontier of Climate Change: Beyond Paris
December 16, 2015
Rebecca Leber
If you blinked, you would have missed the only time the Paris climate talks came up in the GOP debate.

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