Office of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel Mopping up after Exxon in Arkansas. You gotta feel for ExxonMobil. Mere months after the oil giant was mildly stung by a $1.7 million fine for its 2011 spill in Yellowstone River , federal... 

A major spill of toxic oil waste has wiped out trees and vegetation across a 104-acre swath of Alberta, Canada. The apparent cause of the spill: The rupture of a five-year-old pipeline that was designed to last at least 30 years.... 

It came out in April that the Koch brothers, those devious, climate-denying bros who made their billions on oil and gas, were considering buying  the L.A. Times , Chicago Tribune , and the other six regional newspapers owned by the... 

Nuclear power is a weird, weird thing. It is the most socialist of all energy industries, propped up by governments everywhere it exists, yet conservatives love it. It is (putting construction and materials aside) carbon-free, yet... 

Shutterstock Yum, genetically engineered corn and cotton. That isn’t what most people would think. (Especially the cotton bit. And  especially  the GMO bit.) But a growing number of pests appear to share this sentiment. They’ve... 

Greg Thompson / USFWS Damaged homes along New Jersey shore after Hurricane Sandy. Rising seas and increasingly severe weather are expected to increase the areas of the United States at risk of floods by up to 45 percent by 2100, according... 

Phillip Stewart Smoke from the Black Forest Fire. Hellish wildfires are ravaging parts of Colorado. Thousands of people have been evacuated and at least 360 homes have been destroyed by the Black Forest Fire, currently burning northeast... 

Shutterstock Is Chevron more clued in to the dangers of fracking than the federal government? It would seem so. The company’s CEO said this week that the industry needs to do a better job of resolving concerns about the safety... 

Shutterstock Even as bees drop dead around the world after sucking down pesticide-laced nectar, pesticide makers are touting their investments in bee research. Nearly a third of commercial honeybee colonies in U.S. were wiped out... 

Youtube A Chamber of Commerce official interrupts a fake news conference by the Yes Men in 2009. If you’re going to prank the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, you’d better brace yourself for a long legal battle. It’s been... 

R. R. Smith / USDA Cover crops like red clover could be the factor allowing organic farms to sequester carbon dioxide. We’ve known for a while now that organic agriculture is good for the climate: It does a better job at grabbing... 

Giken Seisakusho Bikes are great and all, but as more people start cycling instead of driving, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to create new slabs of empty asphalt on which to park bikes. A better solution is Japan’s... 

Shutterstock As if climate disruption , air pollution , health problems , and landscape destruction weren’t bad enough, here’s another reason to hate the coal industry: Coal companies are shortchanging U.S. taxpayers out of... 

azipaybarah Michael Bloomberg. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out an ambitious plan today to fortify the city against the extreme weather and storms we can expect thanks to a changing climate. “This is a defining challenge... 

NASA COSMIC satellites. Sequester cuts could see the planned second generation of this weather-monitoring array axed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is trying to figure out how to meet sequester cuts demanded... 

Shutterstock “Trust us, we’re Monsanto.” That’s pretty much all the untrustworthy company had to say to win yet another round in a drawn-out court battle with organic farmers and seed producers. The U.S. court... 

I’ve now written, oh, it seems like a kabillion posts on what’s wrong with electric utilities and how they might be adapted for the 21st century. All of my thinking on this subject has been informed by smart work from... 

The director of the Big Sur Spirit Garden, Jayson Fann likes to make people feel at home. He’s a nester. Literally — he makes giant, human-sized nests  for people to hang out and sleep in and eat in and LIVE IN FOREVER... 

Shira Golding The problem with us “tree-huggers” is supposed to be that we care about plants more than humans. But people who think “tree-hugger” is an insult fail to realize that tree-huggers are just as self-interested... 

Shutterstock States have begun introducing taxes on not using gasoline. As the number of electric vehicles on the roads starts to climb , a number of states are introducing new fees to offset the projected losses in gas-tax revenues....