Hurricane Florence Could Be the Most Powerful Storm to Hit the East Coast in 14 Years
Hurricane Florence as seen from the International Space Station on September 10.Ricky Arnold/NASA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Florence, expected to make landfall sometime Thursday, will bring dangerous winds and torrential rainfall to an area of the country that has already been drenched by historic amounts of rain this summer. On…
Solar Power Isn’t Just for the Rich (Anymore)
Community groups want to bring more solar energy to New York.Mario Tama / Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a happy hour in Midtown Manhattan, Luis Pineiro and Jose Hernandez have…
The Environmental Voter Project Knows Who You Are, and How to Trick You Into Saving the Planet
Amelia Bates/Grist Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mary Elizabeth, a redheaded woman in exercise clothes, is holding an extremely bald, blubbery baby when she answers her door. She’s smiling through the exhaustion of new parenthood and…
California Wants All Its Electricity Carbon-Free. How’s That Possible?
VCG/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you want to get electricity generated by fossil fuels in California you’re soon going to be out of luck. A bill that just made it through the legislature…
American Cities Lose 36 Million Trees a Year. But There’s a Radical New Plan to Save Them.
Elaine Thompson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The evidence is in: Urban trees improve air and water quality, reduce energy costs, and improve human health, even as they offer the benefit of storing carbon. And in…
Scientists Discover Giant Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off Atlantic Coast
This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the research vessel Atlantis made its way out to sea from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, last week, expedition chief scientist Erik Cordes predicted the team would discover something no one has ever seen before. It didn’t take long. Some 160 miles off the…