Climate Change

Air conditioners require lots of energy to run, meaning they result in lots of greenhouse gas emissions. But maybe they dont have to?In a recently published Nature paper, researchers with the Institute for Micro Process Engineering in Germany have dreamt up a…

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular freshman Democrat from New York who is trying to use her star power to move the Democratic Party to the left, will headline a rally next week in Washington in favor of the Green New Deal, as she seeks to sh…

A dolphin swims by at an exhibit at the National Aquarium. The aquarium hopes to relocate its dolphins to a sanctuary off the coast of Florida or in the Caribbean. Claire Harbage/NPR Three years ago, the National Aquarium in Baltimore made a big announcemen…

Researchers working off the coast of Mexico have discovered evidence of arsenic-breathing life in oxygen-starved waters. These resilient microbes are a vestige of Earths ancient past, but they could also be a sign of things to come under the influence of clim…

What did that mean? When he was pushed, the whole story came out. It involves menacing notes, death threats and the potential burning of Sun-Maids raisins. You can read all about it here. On the invitation of one of my sources, the private detective Rocky Pi…

The transformation of Beto ORourke into a legit climate change candidate took another turn on Wednesday night when he announced he was pledging to turn away donations from fossil fuel executives. The news was surprising because for months, ORourke has refuse…

How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory

How did this happen? The last 30 years or so have seen a kind of war on the very idea of visionary politics. Where 60s rebels called for all power to the imagination, the consensus of the opinion makers who took over as those social movements sputtered has b…

Australia cant seem to catch a break. The Great Barrier reef is still limping along after being ravaged by heat waves two to three years ago, while the people of Australia just sweated through their hottest summer on record. Now, authorities are warning that …

But Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led activist group that has advocated for the Green New Deal, called Mr. ORourkes approach insufficient. The Green New Deal, a nonbinding congressional resolution, calls for a 10-year p…