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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally at Howard University on Monday. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and fo…

Bill Nye just dropped a slew of F-bombs.  As a guest on the May 12 episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, the storied science communicator used profanity and half-jest to make a succinct point about Earth's rising carbon dioxide emissions, which are …

Major environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are also looking to social science to inform how they communicate about climate change, including their choice of imagery, as are federal agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Sp…

In a crowded Democratic Primary, Mr. Biden is presenting himself as an unapologetic centrist who can build coalitions, and has resisted the idea that the party needs to move far to the left. Show me the really left-, left-, left-wingers who beat a Republican…

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden received significant pushback from progressive groups and more liberal candidates after reports that his campaign is crafting a plan that would take a "middle ground" approach to combatting…

Cambridge University has proposed setting up a research center tasked with coming up with scalable technological fixes for climate change. The proposed Center for Climate Repair is being co-ordinated by David King, an emeritus professor in physical chemistry…

The fetid waste of penguins and elephant seals helps spread nutrients across surprisingly large areas of Antarctica. This fertilizer traveled nearly as far as a kilometer (0.6 miles) past the edges of their active outposts, floating on the chilled Antarctic w…

A recently documented stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one tree at least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest known wetland tree species in the world.David Stahle, Distinguished Pro…

This week the UN released a horrifying reportby hundreds of authors around the worldwarning that a million species of plants and animals face extinction in the next few decades. Thats one in four species on this planet that could soon disappear. Virtually eve…