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The spying game: Companies monitor activists because they can

No one knows just how much surveillance of environmentalists takes place in the U.S. We do know there's not much penalty for getting caught.

Heather Smith Politics December 6, 2013

Ask Umbra: Could you settle the debate over dishwashers vs. hand-washing?

A reader insists she can scrub circles around even a super efficient dishwasher. Umbra brushes up on the basics.

Ask Umbra® Culture December 30, 2013

Warsaw warning: World on pace to miss already awful climate targets

Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries...

Ben Jervey Uncategorized November 20, 2013

Your cable box is a vampire, but it’s about to get more efficient

The Department of Energy struck a deal with the pay-TV industry to make DVRs and other set-top boxes suck up less power.

Ben Adler Technology December 25, 2013

As Warsaw climate talks end, scraps of good news in a mess of bad

The U.N.'s process grinds forward, and delegates agree on some important steps to halt deforestation, but remain allergic to bigger commitments.

John Upton Climate & Energy November 24, 2013

Wetlands are disappearing faster, just when we need them the most

More than 360,000 acres of waterfront habitat were lost between 2004 and 2009, and prairie wetlands took a beating too. Blame development and the ethanol mandate.

John Upton Climate & Energy December 11, 2013

Congressional Climate Task Force calls for coal leasing reform

The Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change today released several recommendations for the Department of Interior to support President Obama’s...

Joe Smyth Uncategorized December 19, 2013

Anti-fracking activists celebrate victory in a fourth Colorado city

A recount has revealed that a fracking moratorium narrowly succeeded in Broomfield, Colo., giving fracking foes a clean sweep of recent ballot measures in the state.

John Upton Climate & Energy November 15, 2013

Iowa is getting sucked into scary, vanishing gullies

The gullies are essentially pipelines that move prime soil (and herbicides and pesticides) from fields into streams.

Tom Philpott Climate & Energy February 7, 2014

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