Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass facades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heat ...

Within a century, half of the world’s climates as we know them will have vanished forever as a direct result of global warming, taking thousands of species with them. These are the gloomy projections ...