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Ask Umbra: Should I find a rideshare for my trip — or just go Greyhound?
A reader wants to know the best option for a short trip. Umbra buckles up.
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Meet the brazen scientist who’s taking over NASA’s high-powered climate lab
The straight-talking Gavin Schmidt is the new director of NASA's climate research group. And he can juggle, too!
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Farm stands turn your backyard kale into cold, hard cash
Farm stands enable your neighbors to sell you farmers-market-quality produce with lemonade-stand convenience. But not all cities are psyched about them.
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The greenest man in America doesn’t drive a Prius or shop at Whole Foods
Lipo Chanthanasak's activism is so organic, granola gets jealous.
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I got 99 climate change problems — don’t make sexual harassment one
As a friend and fellow woman out in the warming world succinctly put it: “It got hot out, I put on a dress, people said things to me.”
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Ask Umbra: How many times can you recycle paper, anyway?
A reader wonders how far recycled paper can go. Umbra delivers.
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Watching polar bears swim for ice will make you want to hug them (but maybe don’t)
It’s hard not to love polar bears, but this video has made us adore them in a whole new way.
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Why the food movement and family farmers need to learn to get along, little dogies
Perspective on the food movement from a writer who grew up shoveling manure.
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A beetles invasion threatens your cup of coffee
Invading heat-happy bugs in India are destroying your most culturally acceptable addiction.
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These maps show how many brutally hot days you will suffer when you’re old
Climate change can be a tough issue to care about at the daily level -- but the prospect of sweating profusely through your golden years? That's more arresting.
