Climate & Energy

Is Better Transportation the Ticket to Diversifying Our National Parks?

On the most basic level, simply getting to national parks is a major problem for communities of color

By Melanie Haiken June 8, 2016

In this story: America's National Parks, national parks, transportation, public transit

Programs like Ticket to Ride and Every Kid in a Park attract new visitors to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

What will climate change do to America's first national park?

One day parts of Yellowstone may look like Las Vegas

By Jake Abrahamson June 7, 2016

In this story: America's National Parks, national parks, science, climate change

Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs near Canary Spring

Dale Dualan, Sustainability Geek in a Smokey Bear Hat

Meet the guy who's turning Point Reyes National Seashore 100 percent green

June 6, 2016

In this story: national parks, clean energy, activism, ready for 100

Meet the guy who's turning Point Reyes National Seashore 100% green.

Environmental news ICYMI

All the environmental news you missed in the past two months

By Paul Rauber June 6, 2016

In this story: climate change, politics, drilling, wolves, endangered species

SeaWorld declares that it will end the captive breeding of orcas

The EPA Clears the Air in Utah's National Parks

By Judith Lewis Mernit June 2, 2016

In this story: air, national parks, dirty energy

5 Environmental Stories You Don't Want to Miss

By Meiling Bedard June 2, 2016

In this story: international climate policy, oil, fracking, wildlife

5 Environmental Stories You Don’t Want to Miss

By Dakin Hewlett May 13, 2016

In this story: animals, bison, food and drink, oil, plastic

If I Had a Hammer: Activists Build Thoreau-Like Cabin to Stop Gas Pipeline

By Abbie Mood April 21, 2016

In this story: activism, dirty energy, fracking, pipelines

Walkable, Bikeable Los Angeles

By Edward Humes April 15, 2016

In this story: public transit, transportation, urban living, urban planning

Keep It Out of Portland

The City of Roses puts a thorn in the side of the fossil fuel industry

By Wendy Becktold April 8, 2016

In this story: activism, dirty energy, oil, tar sands

Portland, Oregon, says no to the fossil fuel industry.