VIDEO: What’s Inside Your iPhone 5?
iFixit’s Kyle Wiens breaks down the world’s hottest new gadget and the dicey chemicals in its components.
Featured location: Cupertino, CA
iFixit’s Kyle Wiens breaks down the world’s hottest new gadget and the dicey chemicals in its components.
Featured location: Cupertino, CA
Teaching Kids About Climate Change
We asked how you have the climate change chat with kids. Here's what you said.
Featured location: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA
We asked how you have the climate change chat with kids. Here's what you said.
Featured location: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA
Turning Your Teeth Green (In a Good Way)
Could this be America's greenest dentist?
Featured location: Newmarket Dental, 80 Main Street, Newmarket, NH
Could this be America's greenest dentist?
Featured location: Newmarket Dental, 80 Main Street, Newmarket, NH
Your Town is Fracked
Pennsylvania Republicans just blasted away local control over oil and gas drilling—potentially jeopardizing residential neighborhoods, watersheds, and even school zones.
Featured location: Dallas, PA
Pennsylvania Republicans just blasted away local control over oil and gas drilling—potentially jeopardizing residential neighborhoods, watersheds, and even school zones.
Featured location: Dallas, PA
The Inside Story on Climate Scientists Under Siege
Michael Mann reveals his account of attacks by entrenched interests seeking to undermine his “hockey stick” graph.
Featured location: Penn State University, State College, PA
Michael Mann reveals his account of attacks by entrenched interests seeking to undermine his “hockey stick” graph.
Featured location: Penn State University, State College, PA
How to Cook After a Catastrophe
A weather presenter and a celebrity chef walk into a kitchen…that was the novel hook for this cooking class (and, hell, it’s not often Climate Desk gets to film a cooking show).
Featured location: 200 Fifth ave, New York, NY
A weather presenter and a celebrity chef walk into a kitchen…that was the novel hook for this cooking class (and, hell, it’s not often Climate Desk gets to film a cooking show).
Featured location: 200 Fifth ave, New York, NY
Does God Care About Climate Change?
Five faith leaders in America’s most religiously diverse neighborhood face the challenge of climate change.
Featured location: Flushing, Queens, New York
Five faith leaders in America’s most religiously diverse neighborhood face the challenge of climate change.
Featured location: Flushing, Queens, New York
Can Pond Scum Save Us From $5 Gas?
Short answer: no. But algae’s moment in the sun may be just over the horizon.
Featured location: Woodbine, NJ
Short answer: no. But algae’s moment in the sun may be just over the horizon.
Featured location: Woodbine, NJ
The BP Cover-Up
BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.
Featured location: Oahu, Hawaii
BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.
Featured location: Oahu, Hawaii
March of the Tourists
Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand?
Featured location: Antarctica
Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand?
Featured location: Antarctica
What Happens When Your Country Drowns?
Meet the people of Tuvalu, the world's first climate refugees.
Featured location: Tuvalu
Meet the people of Tuvalu, the world's first climate refugees.
Featured location: Tuvalu
"It's BP's Oil"
Running the corporate blockade at Louisiana's crude-covered beaches.
Featured location: Elmers Island, LA
Running the corporate blockade at Louisiana's crude-covered beaches.
Featured location: Elmers Island, LA
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Permit
The president's decision was no surprise, but the battle isn't over yet.
Featured location: Washington, DC
The president's decision was no surprise, but the battle isn't over yet.
Featured location: Washington, DC
Scenes from the Tar Wars
As Canada scrambles to dig up some of the world's dirtiest oil, a bush doctor tracks mysterious diseases, poisoned rivers, and shattered lives.
Featured location: Fort McMurray, Canada
As Canada scrambles to dig up some of the world's dirtiest oil, a bush doctor tracks mysterious diseases, poisoned rivers, and shattered lives.
Featured location: Fort McMurray, Canada
What You Need to Know About the Horn of Africa Famine
Explaining the fallout from Eastern Africa's worst drought in 60 years.
Featured location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Explaining the fallout from Eastern Africa's worst drought in 60 years.
Featured location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change?
Some ecologists say yes, while others believe we shouldn't mess with nature. Who's right?
Featured location: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Some ecologists say yes, while others believe we shouldn't mess with nature. Who's right?
Featured location: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Bangladesh Farmers Confront New Climate Reality
Bangladesh has made dramatic progress in ensuring that its people are fed. But can it stop a changing climate from sweeping away the gains?
Featured location: Satkhira, Bangladesh
Bangladesh has made dramatic progress in ensuring that its people are fed. But can it stop a changing climate from sweeping away the gains?
Featured location: Satkhira, Bangladesh
What is the Cost of Climate Change to our Oceans?
An unprecedented study claims to show how the effects of climate change could cost the global marine economy two trillion dollars per year, but this begs the question: how can you cost the oceans?
Featured location: Pacific Ocean
An unprecedented study claims to show how the effects of climate change could cost the global marine economy two trillion dollars per year, but this begs the question: how can you cost the oceans?
Featured location: Pacific Ocean
Record Heat Wave Grips US: But is it Climate Change?
Thousands of temperature records have broken in recent weeks. But the jury’s still out on what that means in the big picture.
Featured location: Chicago, IL
Thousands of temperature records have broken in recent weeks. But the jury’s still out on what that means in the big picture.
Featured location: Chicago, IL
Scientists Use Thoreau’s Journal Notes to Track Climate Change
Researchers use Walden author’s tables of flowering dates in 1840s Massachusetts to show temperature has risen 2.4C.
Featured location: Concord, Massachusetts
Researchers use Walden author’s tables of flowering dates in 1840s Massachusetts to show temperature has risen 2.4C.
Featured location: Concord, Massachusetts
Stopping Climate Change is Much Cheaper Than You Think
A UK report confirms the cost of preventing climate change would cost the average citizen just pennies a day.
Featured location: London, UK
A UK report confirms the cost of preventing climate change would cost the average citizen just pennies a day.
Featured location: London, UK
How Dirty is the Cloud?
Apple’s iCloud is at the vanguard of personal computing. But is it too reliant on dirty energy?
Featured location: Maiden, NC
Apple’s iCloud is at the vanguard of personal computing. But is it too reliant on dirty energy?
Featured location: Maiden, NC
Rising Tide in Norfolk, Va.
A city on the front lines of sea-level rise wonders how long it can keep the Atlantic Ocean at bay.
Featured location: Norfolk, Virginia
A city on the front lines of sea-level rise wonders how long it can keep the Atlantic Ocean at bay.
Featured location: Norfolk, Virginia
Apple and Greenpeace Trade Blows in Data Center Grudge Match
Calculating the power use of the iCloud proves elusive.
Featured location: San Francisco, CA
Calculating the power use of the iCloud proves elusive.
Featured location: San Francisco, CA
Will Obama’s New Rules Make Fracking Better for the Planet?
Yes, to some extent. But the bummer is that they completely ignore greenhouse gas emissions.
Featured location: Washington, DC
Yes, to some extent. But the bummer is that they completely ignore greenhouse gas emissions.
Featured location: Washington, DC
Interactive: New York’s Roofscape Gets Climate Makeover
Witness the evolution of NYC’s billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.
Featured location: New York City
Witness the evolution of NYC’s billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.
Featured location: New York City
Brooklynites: Don’t Frack Our Beer!
Does worrying about fracking make you thirst for a drink? Before you raise that pint of ale to your lips, consider the source.
Featured location: Brooklyn, New York
Does worrying about fracking make you thirst for a drink? Before you raise that pint of ale to your lips, consider the source.
Featured location: Brooklyn, New York
Colorado Wildfire: Our Scorching Future?
As residents flee 40-foot flames in the mountain west, scientists see climate change altering fire patterns around the globe.
Featured location: Ft. Collins, CO
As residents flee 40-foot flames in the mountain west, scientists see climate change altering fire patterns around the globe.
Featured location: Ft. Collins, CO
“Holy Sh*t!” From the Ashes, a Call to Heed Climate Change
Amid the wreckage of his home, a fire victim warns future generations of climate change
Featured location: Colorado Springs, CO
Amid the wreckage of his home, a fire victim warns future generations of climate change
Featured location: Colorado Springs, CO
Charts: Gen Xers Say “Meh” to Climate Change
For Americans who grew up with MTV and grunge, climate reality bites.
Featured location: Seattle, WA
For Americans who grew up with MTV and grunge, climate reality bites.
Featured location: Seattle, WA
Is the Natural Gas Industry Buying Academics?
Authors of pro-fracking studies are coming under fire for their cozy relationships with the fossil fuel industry.
Featured location: Marietta, OH
Authors of pro-fracking studies are coming under fire for their cozy relationships with the fossil fuel industry.
Featured location: Marietta, OH
Maps: The Secrets Drillers Can Hide About the Fracking in Your Backyard
State-by-state analysis shows natural gas drillers can keep almost everything about their operation secret.
Featured location: Texas
State-by-state analysis shows natural gas drillers can keep almost everything about their operation secret.
Featured location: Texas
Can Renewables Save India’s Failing Grid?
As India picks apart the reasons for the crippling blackout, analysts see an opportunity to talk renewables.
Featured location: New Dehli, India
As India picks apart the reasons for the crippling blackout, analysts see an opportunity to talk renewables.
Featured location: New Dehli, India
Photos: Despite Record Melt, Signs of Hope for Greenland Ice
A new study uses archived aerial photographs to show rampant melting could slow soon.
Featured location: Greenland
A new study uses archived aerial photographs to show rampant melting could slow soon.
Featured location: Greenland
Seven Climate Change Diseases To Ruin Your Monday
Climate change is creating favorable conditions for several (unpronounceable, gross) diseases.
Featured location: Florida
Climate change is creating favorable conditions for several (unpronounceable, gross) diseases.
Featured location: Florida
What the Mars Rover Can Tell Us About Climate Change
NASA’s new rover will hunt for signs of Martian climate change, which can help shed light on Earth’s own.
Featured location: Pasadena, CA
NASA’s new rover will hunt for signs of Martian climate change, which can help shed light on Earth’s own.
Featured location: Pasadena, CA
Curtain Rises on California’s Planned Carbon Market
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over a hundred California businesses got their first taste of GHG cap-and-trade. Here’s how it works.
Featured location: Woodland, CA
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over a hundred California businesses got their first taste of GHG cap-and-trade. Here’s how it works.
Featured location: Woodland, CA
Record-Drought Gets Cattle Hoofin’ It
The great expansion of America took ranchers west. The drought is pushing them back east.
Featured location: Bassett, NE
The great expansion of America took ranchers west. The drought is pushing them back east.
Featured location: Bassett, NE
MAP: Extreme Weather Supersizes Global Food Price Tags
A new Oxfam report adds all sorts of price woes to what researchers already feared.
Featured location: Ethiopia
A new Oxfam report adds all sorts of price woes to what researchers already feared.
Featured location: Ethiopia
Global Business Opposes Climate Action. *Not*!
Corporations call for a clear carbon price, as new report shows companies are taking the threat of climate change seriously.
Featured location: London, UK
Corporations call for a clear carbon price, as new report shows companies are taking the threat of climate change seriously.
Featured location: London, UK
Obama Says Climate Change Not A Hoax, Extreme Weather Not A Joke
President Obama last night made a full-throated endorsement of climate action.
Featured location: Charlotte, NC
President Obama last night made a full-throated endorsement of climate action.
Featured location: Charlotte, NC
Jill Stein Wants to #Occupy the White House
A special visit to Occupy from the Green Party prez candidate cements the link between climate change and the 1 percent.
Featured location: Bowling Green, New York City
A special visit to Occupy from the Green Party prez candidate cements the link between climate change and the 1 percent.
Featured location: Bowling Green, New York City
Photos: See Ya Later, Lovely Glaciers
This summer could be dubbed The Great Melt.
Featured location: Reykjavik, Iceland
This summer could be dubbed The Great Melt.
Featured location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Global Business Opposes Climate Action. *Not*!
Corporations call for a clear carbon price, as new report shows companies are taking the threat of climate change seriously.
Featured location: London, UK
Corporations call for a clear carbon price, as new report shows companies are taking the threat of climate change seriously.
Featured location: London, UK
Carpe Climate: House Dems Seize Extreme Summer to Attack GOP
Reps. Waxman and Markey connect extreme weather to climate change—and fault GOP for inaction.
Featured location: Washington, DC
Reps. Waxman and Markey connect extreme weather to climate change—and fault GOP for inaction.
Featured location: Washington, DC
Swept in by a Hurricane, Climate Change Returns to Washington
After two years as the new third rail of American politics, climate change is poised for a return to Capitol Hill.
Featured location: US Capital, Washington DC
After two years as the new third rail of American politics, climate change is poised for a return to Capitol Hill.
Featured location: US Capital, Washington DC
“It’s the Wild F*ing West Out There”
In the rush to frack, workers get hit, squeezed, maimed—and pushed to keep quiet.
Featured location: Williston, ND
In the rush to frack, workers get hit, squeezed, maimed—and pushed to keep quiet.
Featured location: Williston, ND
INTERACTIVE: Can NYC Be Made Hurricane-Safe?
Oyster farms. Submerged subway cars. What are the best fixes to fight another Sandy?
Featured location: http://climatedesk.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Catherine_670px.jpg
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Oyster farms. Submerged subway cars. What are the best fixes to fight another Sandy?
Featured location: http://climatedesk.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Catherine_670px.jpg
Big Wind’s Recurring Nightmare
The wind industry is clamoring to renew a key tax credit. Again.
Featured location: DUMBO, Brooklyn
The wind industry is clamoring to renew a key tax credit. Again.
Featured location: DUMBO, Brooklyn
VIDEO: Breezy Point, Queens Reels From Hurricane-Caused Inferno
In Hurricane Sandy’s wake, residents pick through a devastated neighborhood.
Featured location: Breezy Point, Queens
In Hurricane Sandy’s wake, residents pick through a devastated neighborhood.
Featured location: Breezy Point, Queens
VIDEO: With or Without FEMA, Staten Island Sifts Through the Rubble
FEMA finally arrives in Staten Island to assess damage, and finds a community already banding together.
Featured location: Tottenville, Staten Island
FEMA finally arrives in Staten Island to assess damage, and finds a community already banding together.
Featured location: Tottenville, Staten Island
Trapped in the Dark: Sandy Leaves Elderly Stranded
Inside the darkened stairwells of high-rise apartments on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, residents battle with power outages, and each other.
Featured location: Lower East Side, Manhattan
Inside the darkened stairwells of high-rise apartments on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, residents battle with power outages, and each other.
Featured location: Lower East Side, Manhattan
NYC Gas Crisis “Like Something You See in the Movies”
With most mass transit still down, and precious little gas on hand, traffic deadlocks in Brooklyn.
Featured location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
With most mass transit still down, and precious little gas on hand, traffic deadlocks in Brooklyn.
Featured location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
VIDEO: Weary NJ Voters Face Election Day Ordeal
“We really don’t care about the election right now, it’s the furthest thing from our minds” one resident says. Still, officials are scrambling to keep the polls open Tuesday.
Featured location: Moonachie, New Jersey
“We really don’t care about the election right now, it’s the furthest thing from our minds” one resident says. Still, officials are scrambling to keep the polls open Tuesday.
Featured location: Moonachie, New Jersey
WATCH: On Long Island, Sandy Victims Vote—Or Not
On Long Island, Sandy victims emerge from shattered lives to vote.
Featured location: Oceanside, Long Island
On Long Island, Sandy victims emerge from shattered lives to vote.
Featured location: Oceanside, Long Island
What Obama Can Do on Climate Change
Five big steps the president can take—with or without the help of Congress.
Featured location: White House, Washington DC
Five big steps the president can take—with or without the help of Congress.
Featured location: White House, Washington DC
My Grandma, the Fracking Matriarch
How I uncovered my secret identity as a would-be oil tycoon.
Featured location: New Town, ND
How I uncovered my secret identity as a would-be oil tycoon.
Featured location: New Town, ND
Van Jones on Obama: Climate “Is Going To Be the Issue He’s Judged On”
The green-jobs guru believes that Obama has an opportunity to tackle global warming. Will he take it?
Featured location: Washington, DC
The green-jobs guru believes that Obama has an opportunity to tackle global warming. Will he take it?
Featured location: Washington, DC
CHARTS: On Wind Power, China Kicks Our Butt
New analysis of the US wind industry’s place in the world market shows an unsettling trend.
Featured location: Tianjin, China
New analysis of the US wind industry’s place in the world market shows an unsettling trend.
Featured location: Tianjin, China
VIDEO: A Solar Thanksgiving for Battered Rockaways
When the electric utility failed, solar power stepped in to keep the lights on for Thanksgiving.
Featured location: Belle Harbor Yacht Club, New York City
When the electric utility failed, solar power stepped in to keep the lights on for Thanksgiving.
Featured location: Belle Harbor Yacht Club, New York City
Can This Woman Save New York From the Next Sandy?
Maybe, if city and state officials play along.
Featured location: Midtown, Manhattan
Maybe, if city and state officials play along.
Featured location: Midtown, Manhattan
Mississippi River Faces Shipping Freeze As Water Levels Drop
Navigation has become treacherous as the worst US drought in half a century brings water levels close to record lows.
Featured location: St. Louis, MO
Navigation has become treacherous as the worst US drought in half a century brings water levels close to record lows.
Featured location: St. Louis, MO