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Climate change is baking Alaska

Alaska is the canary in the climate coal mine, and that bird is in trouble.

Eric Holthaus Cities March 13, 2015

Think you could hack it as a farmer? Read this first

Before you go buying a farm, there are a few things you need to consider.

Audrey Levatino Food and Agriculture April 30, 2015

Bark beetles are killing forests — but they might be saving them, too

They gobble up trees and send politicians into a frenzy. But do the bugs know more about climate change than we do?

Maddie Oatman Climate & Energy March 20, 2015

Lousiana has a crazy plan to save its sinking coastline

The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?

Bob Marshall, Brian Jacobs, & Al Shaw Culture December 9, 2014

Turn your city into a swarm of robot farms

A California company is fixing to fill up urban nooks and crannies with plugin farming systems.

Nathanael Johnson Technology December 3, 2014

Solving climate change will be difficult but worth it

Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.

David Roberts Climate & Energy February 3, 2015

This is what happens when you crowdfund an awesome marine park

Is this marine protected area the Potato Salad of crowdfunded conservation or the future of national parks?

Amelia Urry Culture October 23, 2014

2014 was stuffed with good food news that you never heard about

While high-profile issues aroused inflexible rhetoric, the food movement made real progress this year in a handful of important but less prominent areas.

Nathanael Johnson Technology December 23, 2014

How human composting will change death in the city

The financial and environmental costs of burial and cremation are high, but there could be a better way.

Katie Herzog Technology March 9, 2015

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