What’s that German word for waiting for a debate question on your issue, only to be crushed every time?
Sep 26, 2016, 12:45 pm By Rebecca LeberIf you dedicate your time to advancing a cause, or happen to care a lot about a single problem in…A Grist guide to the first presidential debate
Sep 26, 2016, 11:30 am By Katie Herzog
Climate change is a grave threat to our future, but it probably won’t come up at Monday’s…Should I be using a water filter?
Sep 26, 2016, 6:36 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, We recently heard a sales pitch for a whole-house water filtration system, and now…Happy World Contraception Day! Is your birth control working for you?
Sep 26, 2016, 6:04 am By Eve Andrews626 days ago, I got a Mirena IUD. And today, I’d like to provide an update: Still not knocked up!…The haunting song of climate change, in D minor
Sep 25, 2016, 6:00 am By Brian Kahn
Despite spending countless hours of her PhD at Stanford making visits to remote stretches of Alaska,…Record rains are sending untreated sewage into U.S. cities
Sep 24, 2016, 6:00 am By Climate Central
Record rainstorms across the U.S. in the past year have continued to make national news, causing…Haze fills the air and ash rains from the sky: Just another day in Siberia.
Sep 23, 2016, 4:23 pm By Kate Yoder
The northern Russian region has been quietly burning all summer, sending up plumes of smoke that are…North American tribes forge an alliance to fight oil projects.
Sep 23, 2016, 3:57 pm By Sabrina ImblerOver 50 U.S. and Canadian indigenous communities signed a pan-continental treaty Thursday pledging…Car-free cities might be catching on.
Sep 23, 2016, 2:10 pm By Katie HerzogThis week, cities mark World Car-Free Day, an annual event to promote biking, walking, mass transit,…Why debate moderators ignore climate questions
Sep 23, 2016, 2:02 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Four years ago, CNN’s Candy Crowley had the perfect opportunity to ask President Barack Obama and…Trump gives his classic right-wing energy plan a scary historical name
Sep 23, 2016, 12:51 pm By Ben Adler
Donald Trump gave another speech on Thursday promoting his old energy ideas — not just the same…You don’t get Leonardo DiCaprio by being this thirsty, people.
Sep 23, 2016, 7:09 am By Grist staffThe drooling began with a member of the Australian parliament, hearing Leo mourning the state of…Here are our reading recs to kick off six months of hibernation.
Sep 23, 2016, 6:02 am By Grist staffLet’s welcome fall, the season of feeling just fine about never leaving your house! If you’re…Alaska Native youth view warmer weather as the norm.
Sep 22, 2016, 3:29 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantIn interviews with members of four indigenous communities in Alaska’s Yukon River Basin, U.S.…Gary Johnson on climate: Eh, the sun will destroy the planet eventually anyway
Sep 22, 2016, 2:55 pm By Jeremy Schulmanoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8K3XvxeL8U This story was originally published by…Big business is diving into the fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.
Sep 22, 2016, 2:26 pm By Katie Herzog
Two pro-development lobbying groups, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Midwest…Farmworkers demand ban on a toxic pesticide.
Sep 22, 2016, 2:25 pm By Aura BogadoThe United Farm Workers and several other Latino and migrant health, environmental, and civil…Grass-fed beef sales jumped 40 percent in 2015.
Sep 22, 2016, 1:43 pm By Nathanael JohnsonConventional beef sales grew 6.5 percent during the same period, the Wall Street Journal reports.…The scandal-embroiled Trump Foundation once donated to a climate advocacy group.
Sep 22, 2016, 12:57 pm By Katie Herzog
The Washington Post has been reporting recently on Donald Trump’s potentially illegal actions…How we’re screwing up your favorite season
Sep 22, 2016, 6:03 am By Emma Foehringer Merchant
It’s officially fall. If you live in many parts of the United States, that means trees gilded with…
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