The ABCs of Big Oil: A Podcast Coming Soon From Earther and Drilled
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
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OCTOBER 20, 2021
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The Pandemic Fueled a Boom in Empty Ghost Shipping Containers Traveling the High Seas
Gizmodo
MARCH 11, 2021
In our latest proof that global capitalism is extremely logical and efficient, hundreds of thousands of completely empty shipping containers are being transported overseas amid the pandemic, according to an analysis by Earther. Read more.
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This Giant Ice Cube Represents How Much Ice We're Losing Every Year
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JANUARY 25, 2021
We talk about ice a lot here on Earther—or more specifically, the growing absence of it. A new study puts what’s happening to the planet in striking perspective. While I can tell you the results show 1.2 trillion tons of ice disappeared every year since 1994, it’s a lot easier to grasp as a visual. Read more.
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New Polling Shows Voters Want to Hold Big Oil’s Feet to the Fire
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OCTOBER 9, 2020
New polling shared exclusively with Earther shows that Americans want to do something about that. earther exclusive accountability fuck fossil fuels fossil fuel industry big oil exxon knew
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The World Still Sucks, but at Least Bear Cam Is Back
Gizmodo
JUNE 22, 2020
At Earther, we stan the bears. Bears are good , especially when they are fat. They are the hero we all need. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Alaska’s Katmai National Park has set up its live bear cams for the summer. You know what that means: bears, bears, and more bears. Read more.
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What’s the Best Way to Decarbonize Your Home?
Gizmodo
AUGUST 20, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Read more.
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Texas Oil and Gas Plants Quadruple Air Pollution as Systems Freeze Up
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
But data shared with Earther shows the suffering maybe be particularly acute for the millions of Texans living near oil wells and refineries. It’s been a hard week for everyone living in Texas as blackouts , boil notices , and bone-chilling cold rattle the state. Read more.
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How Can You Overcome Climate Dread?
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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Extreme Weather Events Cost the U.S. $145 Billion in 2021
Gizmodo
JANUARY 10, 2022
Regular Earther readers will know there was no shortage of apocalyptic weather disasters plaguing the U.S. last year, from pipe-bursting freezes in Texas to road warping heat in the Pacific Northwest to an endless parade of wildfires mixed in for good measure. Now, a new report from the National Centers for… Read more.
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Facebook Announces Doomsday for False Vaccine Claims
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FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The social network saw the issue as being about free speech and the anti-vaxxer groups it hosted as being about as dangerous as flat-Earthers. For years, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories found a welcome home on Facebook. But now that getting accurate vaccine information to the public is a matter of existential… Read more.
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Scientists Made an Alarmingly Easy Trip to the North Pole
Gizmodo
AUGUST 27, 2020
At Earther, we’ve been following the historic extent of ice melt in the Arctic this summer pretty closely. But not as closely as Gunnar Spreen and his research team, who are literally following the ice. Read more.
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Does Driving an Electric Vehicle Matter if the Grid Is Fossil Fueled?
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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Big Oil Uses Newsletter Ads to Spread Misinformation Ahead of Big Oil Misinformation Hearing
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 27, 2021
This is a special joint investigation from Earther and HEATED, a newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis. HEATED is a must-read news outlet for anyone who cares about the future of the planet. Subscribe here. Read more.
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The Oceans Are Turning Into a Layer Cake
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
But while Earther is decidedly pro-cake, this is in fact a bad situation. The oceans are facing a host of maladies, from acidification to sea level rise. Turning them into a ginormous liquid layer cake may sound comparatively benign (and delicious). Read more.
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Marvel’s ‘Vanguardians of the Galaxy’ Feud Was Fake But It Raises a Really Important Point
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 20, 2021
On Tuesday morning, Earther got a press release purporting to be from financial services giant Vanguard. The press release touted a new fossil-fuel-free portfolio it called “Vanguardians of the Galaxy” for “young investors.” A few hours later, another press release showed up claiming to be from Marvel saying the… Read more.
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Should You Work Less to Save the Climate?
Gizmodo
AUGUST 26, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a new series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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Is Seafood a More Climate-Friendly Option Than Eating Meat?
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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Should I Buy Water in a Plastic, Metal, or Glass Bottle?
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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How Can I Divest From Fossil Fuels?
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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Is It More Sustainable to Live Off the Land or in the City?
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OCTOBER 7, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
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The Possibilities and Limits of Individual Climate Action
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Here at Earther, I spend a lot of my time writing about the entities that are the most responsible for the climate crisis, like energy giants and other polluting companies. I know that these companies and their friends in government have spent decades promoting the false idea that we are all responsible for global… Read more.
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The ABCs of Big Oil: The Father of Forestry’s Influence on Big Oil
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 8, 2021
On the ABCs of Big Oil , a new podcast miniseries from Earther and Drilled, climate journalist Amy Westervelt and I have spent two episodes looking into the oil and gas industry’s century-long assault on American education; how it has shaped school curricula to limit how Americans think about the climate crisis and how… Read more.
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Still Looks Bad
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Earther began the week by nothing things looked bad in the Atlantic. And because the Atlantic is on a bender, we’re ending the week the same way. Read more.
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Watch the first trailer for The Expanse season 6, arriving December 10th
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OCTOBER 8, 2021
When Collider interviewed the show’s producers (who are also the books’ authors, by the way) back in February , it sounded like they were going to leave room for more: I think, the thing that season six does is it pays off the story that we began in episode one of season one where the Martians, the Earthers and the Belters were all in this incredibly (..)
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The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive—and Problematic
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 19, 2021
This week, one of the world’s most-watched plastic clean-up projects will announce victory. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that has set out to solve the huge problem of plastics in the ocean, will hold a press event Wednesday where it will review the success of its latest system. The group has already said the… Read more.
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Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 14, 2021
On Thursday, a strange scene unfolded at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden took the stage with a prominent climate scientist and Christiana Figueres, the woman who negotiated the Paris Agreement, at a TED Countdown conference. Van Beurden was there to ostensibly talk up the… Read more.
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The Climate Denial Is Coming From Inside Facebook's House
Gizmodo
OCTOBER 26, 2021
In the midst of the second-hottest October in human history, a question popped up on an internal Facebook message board. Policy for Misinformation - Climate Change Denial?” Read more.
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Utilities Took Public Money, Gave CEOs Millions, and Then Turned People’s Lights Off During the Pandemic
Gizmodo
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
A new report finds that some of the country’s most powerful utilities raked in millions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds last year—while continuing to shut off service for households across the U.S. during the pandemic. Read more.
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'I Should Be Able to Go Outside': Why a Utah Teen Is Suing Over Polluted Air
Gizmodo
MARCH 29, 2022
Fifteen-year-old Natalie R. is fed up with the poor air quality in her home state of Utah. But rather than simply complain, she and a group of other young people are taking on who they see as the enablers of this pollution: government officials who continue to green-light fossil fuel development. Read more.
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Hearing Greta’s Message
Gizmodo
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Last year, the climate movement found new vigor in a young Swede named Greta Thunberg. She began a solo strike and quickly caught global media attention for her sharp tongue and truth telling. Too often, however, her words have fallen on deaf ears as politicians continue to ignore the climate crisis. In one of her… Read more.
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Fun Game Ruined by Reality
Gizmodo
AUGUST 21, 2020
I love video games. The popular battle royale game Fortnite, however, is not one of them. That’s probably a good thing for the planet because new data shows that the game is really carbon-intensive. Sorry to my 11-year-old nephew and millions of others, though, who play. Read more.
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Big Oil's New Ad Campaign Is 'One of the Creepiest' It's Ever Made
Gizmodo
JANUARY 27, 2022
I was sitting on the couch one evening over the holidays, watching a college bowl game as one is wont to do. Football is usually my tune-out time where I can forget the world is on fire and the fossil fuel industry is hellbent on stoking the flames. Read more.
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Amazon's New Safety Crisis Could Be Heat Waves
Gizmodo
JUNE 29, 2021
Amazon workers have faced no shortage of health hazards in the company’s warehouses. While we’ve focused on injuries, inadequate restroom access, covid-19 safeguards, and psychological torment, extreme heat could become the next imminent threat in the face of climate change. Read more.
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The Last Unknown Takes Viewers to Some of the Most Remote Islands on Earth
Gizmodo
MARCH 20, 2021
Photographer and filmmaker Ian Shive is known for documenting remote locations, and it doesn’t get much more remote than the Aleutian Islands. The chain of 2,500 islands jut off the coast of mainland Alaska and form a 1,200-mile (1,931-kilometer) arc in the Bering Sea. They are one of the most inaccessible, wild… Read more.
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Rihanna’s New Skincare Line Cuts Down on Waste—But Not Enough
Gizmodo
AUGUST 24, 2020
Over the last year or so, I’ve been on a journey to make my beauty routine plastic-free. I’ve been trying a number of alternatives—from my shampoo to my make-up —to eliminate as much plastic as possible from my life. However, a new skincare line is having me reconsider all my efforts: Fenty Skin. Read more.
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The Crisis at a Florida Wastewater Reservoir Show the Risks of Our Weak Infrastructure
Gizmodo
APRIL 5, 2021
On Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency over fears that a leaking wastewater pond in Manatee County could collapse imminently, triggering a “real catastrophic flood situation.” Officials have ordered more than 300 households to evacuate the area, warning that the looming disaster… Read more.
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Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests
Gizmodo
APRIL 5, 2021
The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed. Read more.
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My Sim Is an Environmentalist Who Knows How to Have a Good Time
Gizmodo
JULY 24, 2020
Elsie Pruitt, a young brown queer woman from Evergreen Harbor, kicks off her weekends by voting. From Friday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 6 p.m., the aspiring green technician can head to her community voting board across the street to vote on whatever changes she wants to see in her neighborhood, Grimms Quarry. One week,… Read more.
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Good Night, Meat Prince
Gizmodo
MAY 7, 2021
Bryan Menegus is one of the most frustrating editors I’ve ever worked with, which is to say he had annoying feedback like ‘Do you have a source on this?’, ‘This paragraph is complete gibberish’, ‘Did you forget to end this sentence?’, or ‘This is just totally factually wrong’. He also changed the structure of… Read more.
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18 Names for Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Arena’ That Would’ve Made More Sense
Gizmodo
JUNE 26, 2020
So we’re really doing this, huh? Read more.
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Texas Is Letting Shell, Exxon, and Other Oil Producers Break the Rules
Gizmodo
AUGUST 19, 2021
Even when policymakers set the easiest rules for fossil fuel producers to follow, it seems like many companies choose to flaunt them anyway. A new analysis from Earthworks suggests that oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin in Texas, one of the largest oilfields in the world, are routinely emitting carbon dioxide… Read more.
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