Climate Change

YouTube is where preschoolers go for their Baby Shark fix. Its where beauty bloggers rejoice as they unbox their new favorite lipstick. As it turns out, the websitemy 3-year-old nieces one and only true lovealso contributes to climate change in a fairly signi…

A Quebec high school French exam question that asked students about adapting to climate change has drawn a torrent of online criticism, as teens used memes and videos to denounce what they see as government inaction on climate issues. The question on last we…

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…