The winter solstice is Wednesday: 7 things to know about the shortest day of the year
The winter solstice is upon us: Wednesday, December 21, will be the shortest day of 2016 for anyone living north of the equator (and Tuesday night was the longest night of the year). If pagan...
Obama tries to preempt Trump by banning oil drilling in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic
By using an obscure 1953 law, Obama makes a move that could be hard for Trump to overturn.
All the state energy legislation from 2016, in one place
A searchable database for your nerding pleasure.
The best climate change visualizations of 2016
GIFs and spirals and time lapses, oh my!
Elon Musk’s plan to fix traffic suffers from one fundamental problem
He’s dreaming about building a giant machine to dig tunnels everywhere. There’s a much simpler way…
Emerging nations have taken the lead on renewable energy, in 2 charts
They moved ahead last year.
One of the hardest parts parts of dealing with sea-level rise will be the uncertainty
Too many cities are waiting around for definitive answers on how fast the oceans will rise. It’s a terrible mistake.
What we lose when we lose the world’s frogs
Amphibians survived the dinosaur extinction just fine. Why are they in peril now?
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We finally have an effective Ebola vaccine. The war on the disease is about to change.
After an uproar, Trump’s team has disavowed its controversial climate questionnaire
Federal employees appear to have won their first big clash with Trump.
Rex Tillerson’s potentially huge conflict of interest over Russia and oil, explained
ExxonMobil has billions at stake over sanctions on Russia. Its CEO is now in Trump’s Cabinet.
America finally has an offshore wind farm to call its own
Twenty-five years after the world’s first offshore turbine was built, the US gets started.
Rick Perry once wanted to abolish the Energy Department. Trump picked him to run it.
It’s yet another climate denier in a key energy position in Trump’s Cabinet.
Ohio clean energy standards are toast unless Gov. John Kasich steps in to save them
The legislature wants to make them voluntary.
Russia joins OPEC in throttling oil production — and oil prices keep rising
The world’s oil producers are gambling that they can hike prices by throttling production.
This interactive map shows why renewables and natural gas are taking over the US
This one’s for all the energy nerds out there.