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What Climate Change Will Do to Three Major American Cities by 2100
By Nexus Media in collaboration with Teen Vogue Climate change is already here. It’s not something that can simply be ignored by cable news or dismissed by sitting U.S. senators in a Twitter joke. Nor is it a fantastical scenario like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 that starts with a single crack in the ArcticREAD MORE
Farming with Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our Food Supply
Wine growers have a neat, if unusual, trick for making more flavorful wine — don’t water the vines. Let the vines go dry right before harvest, and they will yield smaller grapes with more skin and less juice. Smaller grapes produce wine with a deeper color and more complex flavor. What if artificial intelligence could discover other tricksREAD MORE
Everybody Wants EV Charging Stations. Nobody Wants to Build Them. (VIDEO)
This article is part of a series about barriers to the widespread adoption of electric cars. A driver planning to make the trek from Denver to Salt Lake City can look forward to an eight-hour trip across some of the most beautiful parts of the country, long stretches with nary a town in sight. The fastestREAD MORE
Uncovering the Mental Health Crisis of Climate Change
The young man believed he only had five years to live. “Not because he was sick,” said Kate Schapira, “not because anything was wrong with him, but because he believed that life on Earth would be impossible for humans.” The sign on Schapira’s booth read: CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING 5¢ THE DOCTOR IS IN. Time to earnREAD MORE
A Paradox From Climate Change Past
Human history is rife with stories of environmental catastrophe and powerful civilizations felled by climate change — the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Sumerians. But while countless scholars have scoured the historical record to understand the risks of climate change, few have looked to the past for answers to how modern societies will need to adapt. “Climate change causesREAD MORE
10 Reasons California Is Greener than New York
“Go West, young man,” wrote Horace Greeley. “No, seriously. They have burritos over there.” When Greeley penned those words (the first few, anyway), he fired the first shot in a bicoastal battle for supremacy that still rages today. Some young Americans did indeed head west, to California, where they enjoyed surfing, sunshine and salsa. Others stayedREAD MORE
10 Reasons New York Is Greener than California
Frank Sinatra, the epitome of cool, said that if you can make it in New York City, you can make it anywhere. But what if you can’t make it there? Well, then, you’ll probably run away to California, like so many others before you. With its ample sunshine and eco-friendly reputation, California does provide New YorkREAD MORE
Five Facts About Climate Change to Set the Record Straight
Ifyou watched this year’s State of the Union address, you might remember President Barack Obama’s frustrated nod to congressional climate change doubters. “Sixty years ago, when the Russians beat us into space, we did not deny Sputnik was up there,” Obama said. “We did not argue about the science or shrink our research and development budget.READ MORE
In an Oil Boom, Reason to Mourn 55 Mph Speed Limit
InDecember, U.S. lawmakers voted to end the nation’s decades-long ban on the export of crude oil, which was passed to limit American dependence on foreign oil. Fittingly, the move came almost 20 years to the day after the repeal of another key energy policy: the 55 mph speed limit. Both measures were created in response toREAD MORE
Climate Games
The year 2015 will be remembered as a watershed moment in the fight against global warming. This year delivered a papal encyclical, the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from U.S. power plants, and a landmark international agreement on climate change, which President Obama described as a “turning point for the world.” It’s against this backdrop that BarnardREAD MORE
For Severe Weather, ‘Is This Climate Change?’ Is the Wrong Question
For the first five years of his career, Alex Rodriguez averaged 37 home runs a season. Then, he moved to the Texas Rangers, where his average swelled to 52 home runs a season. A-Rod’s other statistics — runs batted in, slugging average — rose as well. It is difficult to account for the sudden surge inREAD MORE
Is Natural Gas Worse Than Coal?
Climate activist and author Bill McKibben has likened 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming to the legal drinking limit, and the global carbon budget to a six-pack shared between friends. The total proven coal, oil and gas reserves? That’s “the three 12-packs the fossil-fuel industry has on the table, already opened and ready toREAD MORE