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The 16 scariest maps from the E.U.’s massive new climate change report

Consider this your road map for the future.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

Another benefit of tiny housing: You can lift it off the ground with balloons

Jonathan Trappe only needed 215 balloons to lift a specially-built tiny home off the ground this weekend. Try that with your McMansion.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

Ohio’s Next Big Decision — A Clean or Dirty Energy Future?

Now that the presidential election is over, the people of Ohio are facing another important choice — whether their state will embrace clean energy measures that will save money and lives, or continue wasting energy from polluting coal plants. To help get the message out far and wide, the Ohio Sierra Club is launching new […]

Mary Anne Hitt Uncategorized

Fracking updates interspersed with jokes

Fracking in the news! Lots of news about fracking! Step right up, get your fracking news!

Philip Bump Technology

This beautiful waterfall is also essentially a flaming fart

In a park in upstate New York, there's a flame that never goes out. OK, it almost never goes out. But we'll still give it credit for being pretty tenacious, because it lives behind a waterfall.

Sarah Laskow Uncategorized

A grocery store for the people planned for West Oakland food desert

A new plan will put a grocery store in one of the nation's largest food deserts -- and provide a unique investment opportunity for regular folks.

Twilight Greenaway Food

Soon we’ll be killing people with solar-powered drones

This isn't just some futuristic, comic-book dystopian idea.

Sarah Laskow Technology

Boston has a few thousand gas leaks it shouldn’t worry about

Thanks to aging underground pipelines, natural gas is leaking out in more than 3,300 spots around Boston. In six locations, the leaks are big.

Philip Bump Cities

We have only 40 years worth of helium left, and we’re wasting it on giant balloons?

We all know what Thanksgiving is about: good food, friends and family, feeling grateful for the blessings in our lives, and gigantic balloons of cartoon characters. Enjoy it while it lasts.