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Perhaps the biggest barrier to action on climate change is the fact that it doesn't hit us in the gut. But new research suggests ways to make it a more potent moral issue.
The question of whether climate change "causes" certain events drives David Roberts a little nuts, but he tries to tackle it once and for all.
With just days to go before world leaders arrive in Rio, international talks are sliding toward the lowest common denominator. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
The GOP wants to block the military's use of cleaner fuels and push use of dirtier fuels. "Supporting the troops" apparently ends where Big Oil contributions begin.
A study that just came out in Nature Climate Change found that wind farms can impact local temperatures, particularly at night....
The U.S. government owns 200,000 foreclosed homes. And to keep those empty homes looking spiffy for would-be buyers, the government...
No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor will ours. Yet economists look at the...
New research says organic food makes you rude and selfish. We investigate this "provocative" study.
How does today's climate crisis revise our understanding of our collective past? Mark Fiege, author of a new environmental chronicle of the U.S., takes us on a natural history tour.
