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Guess which two words can make your nonpartisan education reforms a hot potato?
Some states think that the new national standards for the science curriculum go way too far when it comes to teaching kids about climate change.
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America’s largest reservoir is hitting new record lows every day
The drought and overuse of Colorado River water has led to an epic decline in water levels at Lake Mead.
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Climate change is flooding out American coastlines
A new analysis finds that flooding from storm surges is getting worse as sea levels rise.
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Cowboys, hunters, and enviros team up to fight natural gas drilling
In Colorado's beautiful Thompson Divide, locals are trying to stop drilling before it begins.
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Utilities to battery-powered solar: Get off our lawn
As utilities see how distributed solar, aided by new storage tech, can chip away at their monopolies (and profits), they're fighting back.
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At Chez Dumpster, every misshapen veggie gets its due
An art project serves up gourmet meals, made from produce that would otherwise go to waste, in a setting that can only be called trashy.
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How hot will future summers be in your city?
A new tool lets you see how hot it's going to get in your neck of the woods if we don't do anything about climate change.
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Meet the Andy Griffith who’s going after fracking polluters
In Texas, some small-town sleuths on the illegally ditched-sofa beat are stumbling on big-time dumping of toxic fracking waste.
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Billions of oil dollars will buy you the largest mall in the world
World's largest indoor amusement park included.
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House Republicans to EPA: “We’ll take your money and give it to fires!”
The GOP wants to cut EPA funding and block the agency from regulating CO2, while steering some of that money to firefighting efforts.