Environment

Here Are 58 Million Reasons to Care About California's Drought

There's a lot more at stake than just trees.

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7 Great Environment Longreads From 2015

It's been an excellent year for stories about our planet.

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Christmas on the beach

The Solar Industry’s Christmas Miracle

2015 was looking pretty grim for solar energy. But that all changed in December.

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Here's a Video Showing the Very Worst Anti-Science Bullshit of 2015

Snowballs, witch hunts, and a big measles outbreak.

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Here Are 58 Million Reasons to Care About California's Drought

There's a lot more at stake than just trees.

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7 Great Environment Longreads From 2015

It's been an excellent year for stories about our planet.

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Christmas on the beach

The Solar Industry’s Christmas Miracle

2015 was looking pretty grim for solar energy. But that all changed in December.

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Here's a Video Showing the Very Worst Anti-Science Bullshit of 2015

Snowballs, witch hunts, and a big measles outbreak.

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LATEST

The 7 Biggest Food Stories of 2015

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Here Are 58 Million Reasons to Care About California's Drought

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Here's a Video Showing the Very Worst Anti-Science Bullshit of 2015

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7 Great Environment Longreads From 2015

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Christmas on the beach

The Solar Industry’s Christmas Miracle

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Black Hawk helicopter

How 19 Big-Name Corporations Plan to Make Money Off the Climate Crisis

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Scientists Just Made a Major Breakthrough in Understanding Autism

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Falling elephant

The Republican Primary Just Got a Little Less Sane

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The Only Way to Save Your Beloved Bananas Might Be Genetic Engineering

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10 Unusual Facts About the Flu From a Nobel Prize-Winning Pandemics Expert

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Trump Cruz Bush

Will One of These Clowns Destroy the Paris Climate Deal?

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A Food Giant Wanted to Squash Eggless Mayo. It Just Lost.

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Flint Kids Have So Much Lead in Their Blood That the Mayor Declared a State of Emergency. Thanks, GOP.

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Wolf Blitzer

The Question No One Dared Ask at the Debate

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Look at These Charts Before You Eat Your Next Burrito

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2 Surprising Reasons Why Japan Won't Stop Hunting Whales

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Republicans Have Been Pretty Quiet About the Big Climate Deal. Is That About to Change?

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Republican Voters Are More Pro-Climate Than You Might Think

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Move Over, Monsanto: The Pesticide and GMO Seed Industry Just Spawned a New Behemoth

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Paris

Here's Everything You Need to Know About That Big Climate Deal

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What's Causing the East Coast's Absurdly Warm Weather?

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Barack Obama

Obama: Paris Climate Agreement Could Be a "Turning Point For the World"

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Breaking: World Leaders Just Agreed to a Landmark Deal to Fight Global Warming

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VIDEO

Here's a Video Showing the Very Worst Anti-Science Bullshit of 2015
Earth

Will the Planet Survive the Next 24 Hours?

CHARTS

Look at These Charts Before You Eat Your Next Burrito

China Is Absolutely Destroying the US on Clean Energy

INTERACTIVES

The Great Frack Forward

Deep Inside the Wild World of China's Fracking Boom

Here's How Many Ridiculously Hot Days Your City Will Have in the Future

MAPS

This Map Shows Where the Next Clean Energy Gold Mine Is

Here's What You Need to Know About the Big Storm Coming for the East Coast

LONGREADS

7 Great Environment Longreads From 2015

This May Be the Most Radical Idea in All of Professional Sports

PHOTO ESSAYS

Here Are 58 Million Reasons to Care About California's Drought
Children working in a mine

The Photos That Helped End Child Labor in the United States

Photo Essays + Slideshows

Houston, We Have a Photo—8,400, to Be Exact

Thousands of behind-the-scenes NASA images have been put on Flickr

Cheerleaders applying hairspray

These Striking Photos Will Change the Way You Look at Coal Country

Photographer Stacy Kranitz documents life in this often misrepresented part of America.

Chester family

Black Deaths Matter

Why is it so hard for families of color to get justice when a loved one is murdered?

Looking for polar bears with binoculars

Stark Photos of the World's Last Legal Polar Bear Hunt

Only indigenous peoples may hunt the world's remaining polar bears. Could that soon come to an end?

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