Toxic Coal Waste Could Be the Key to Our Clean Energy Future (Seriously)
Red states are piloting a new way to clean up leftover ash—and turn it into something greener.
Writers Confront Climate Crisis
Writers Rebel NYC, a coalition of writers who are part of the activist group Extinction Rebellion, seeks to encourage conversation and action around climate change through literature.
The Problem is not People
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Against Apocalypse
This approach to storytelling has its origins in what Michael Chabon has called the “utopian world” of the Bay Area and other metro regions along the Pacific coast. California was…
‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble
The anthropocene — whether it began with agriculture, the colonization of the West, the Industrial Revolution or the atomic bomb — was born of human ingenuity. That’s what empowered us…
Environmentally friendly birth control?
Which birth control is right for me... and the environment? Picking your uterus protector according to how good it is for the planet is a surprisingly complicated conundrum! Umbra helps…
In the Next Next World
Gillian Conoley discusses the devastation wrought by the October 2017 Northern California wildfires, the most destructive in the state’s history.
Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future
In just a few months from now, at bitcoin’s current growth rate, the electricity demanded by the cryptocurrency network will start to outstrip what’s available, requiring new energy-generating plants. And…
Republicans accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
The Republican majority in the US Congress has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating sea-ice cover at…
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse
A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort. In contrast…