The muck beneath our feet could be our destruction, or our salvation.
Dec 5, 2016, 5:34 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Most of us don’t have Dec. 5 marked on our calendars as World Soil Day, but maybe we should. In…Despite victory for Standing Rock Sioux, Energy Transfer Partners vows Dakota Access Pipeline will go on.
Dec 5, 2016, 3:04 pm By Katie Herzog
Protestors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline celebrated Sunday after the Army Corps of Engineers…There’s a battle over indigenous resources in Alaska, and you helped us investigate it.
Dec 5, 2016, 2:58 pm By Cody Permenter
Grist sent former fellow Melissa Cronin aboard a four-seat prop plane to the tiny village of Tyonek,…Al Gore and Exxon’s CEO enter Trump Tower …
Dec 5, 2016, 11:38 am By Grist staff
It sounds like the start of a joke, but it isn’t. Ivanka Trump will meet today with Al Gore! to…What’s the greenest kind of Christmas tree?
Dec 5, 2016, 5:41 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I’m visiting my sister out West soon, and she suggested we go cut down a Christmas…The Dakota Access pipeline will have to find another route.
Dec 4, 2016, 7:49 pm By Cody Permenter
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced on Sunday that it will not grant a permit for the…Shift Happens, one PB&J at a time
Dec 3, 2016, 10:00 am By Chip Giller
Every day since the election, I’ve awoken in the fetal position and thought: “President…In wildfire-riddled Tennessee, climate change is a hot topic
Dec 2, 2016, 8:12 pm By Amy McDermott
Daniel Hensley moved to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, a month ago with his girlfriend and infant son. On…Obama can’t really do much about Standing Rock
Dec 2, 2016, 6:06 pm By Krista Langlois
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of…Ho hum, another scientific expedition to Antarctica … but this time the scientists are all women.
Dec 2, 2016, 5:56 pm By Amy McDermott
The voyage, which embarked from Ushuaia, Argentina, on December 2, is sponsored by the Homeward…The backstory on Standing Rock, the federal government, and tribal sovereignty
Dec 2, 2016, 5:21 pm By Aura Bogado
Police in riot gear forming a wall across a road. Water cannons spraying water protectors in the…Look, we spend a lot of time reading the internet — here’s the best stuff of the week.
Dec 2, 2016, 5:15 pm By Grist staff
For better or worse, the Grist staff delves into the mass of words on the web every single day.…Trump supports finishing Dakota Access.
Dec 2, 2016, 2:39 pm By Sabrina Imbler
The president-elect’s transition team said that his stance “has nothing to do with his…5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
Dec 2, 2016, 2:13 pm By Heather Smith
On Election Day, Florida voters helped send Donald Trump to the White House, reelected Marco Rubio…Bill McKibben: Trump presidency “demands fierce resistance”
Dec 2, 2016, 1:53 pm By Bill McKibben
We’re going to be dealing with an onslaught of daily emergencies during the Trump years. Already…The mannequin challenge may be in its twilight, but public transit has our hearts forever.
Dec 2, 2016, 11:02 am By Grist staff
Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority filmed a “mannequin challenge” video…Want to convince Trump to care about climate? Scaremongering about refugees won’t help.
Dec 2, 2016, 10:42 am By Alex Randall
After the election of Donald Trump, people concerned about climate change will be searching for ways…Our government is now getting its science news from science-denying Breitbart.
Dec 1, 2016, 8:57 pm By Cody Permenter
Whoever runs the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Twitter…Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by a whopping 29 percent this year — but there’s a way to slow it.
Dec 1, 2016, 6:19 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
According to satellite imagery, loggers depleted 3,000 square miles of the Amazon from August 2015…The Great Barrier Reef is still dying, still refuses to die.
Dec 1, 2016, 5:20 pm By Amelia UrryIt’s sort of like that time the whole family flew to say goodbye to Great-Uncle Fred only to have…
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