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Hey, media: Those gentrifying neighborhoods had residents before the yuppies moved in

The New York Times is being racist, classist, and colonialist when it writes about rich white people discovering off-the-radar neighborhoods.

Ben Adler Culture

Pope Francis is about to tell congressional Republicans some things they don’t want to hear

Watch out for the snowballs, Your Holiness.

Tim McDonnell Politics

Celebrate World Car-Free Day, if you can think of a good way to do that

Cities around the globe are shutting down streets to vehicles and letting pedestrians and bikers take over.

Katie Herzog Culture

Neuroscience comes to dinner: How brain tweaks could change our diet

Neuroscience used to be a niche field. Now it's changing what and how we eat.

Lexi Pandell Culture

This video teaches you how to make affordable beauty products in your kitchen

It's time to make your beauty routine a little lighter on the Earth, your body, and your bank account.

Ana Sofia Knauf Culture

Climate journalism bums people out. Here’s how to change that.

A new study finds that people pay the most attention to climate stories when they feature individuals who are making a difference.

Heather Smith Politics

Poor Exxon says it’s been unfairly attacked for its climate record

The oil giant's spinmeisters are trying to discredit a series of articles about the company's climate research and its refusal to take serious climate action.

Katie Herzog Technology

After the Volkswagen emissions scandal, why should we trust companies to protect the environment?

The automaker has made it that much harder for any company to convince people that it supports sustainability.

Jo Confino Technology

Too bad NASA’s plan for space-based solar never happened

It involved 60 orbiting power stations and something called a Star-Raker.

Suzanne Jacobs Technology

You’ll never believe what these Emmy winners flashed on the red carpet

Hint: It was small and green.