Elon Musk has a big idea to save civilization: Move it to Mars.
Tue 8:09pm By Katie HerzogSounding not unlike Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, Tesla founder and very rich man…2016 will go down in history as the first year of the rest of our lives — not in a good way.
Tue 7:08pm By Amelia Urry
It’s the year we finally crossed a threshold we won’t be able to un-cross in a hurry: The…Obama pushes to make cities denser and more affordable
Tue 4:13pm By Ben Adler
Good news: President Obama wants to make cities denser and housing more affordable. Bad news: He has…Donald Trump tapped a climate denier to lead EPA team.
Tue 3:57pm By Katie HerzogMyron Ebell, a director at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, would head…Climate change got 82 seconds in the presidential debate
Tue 2:38pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantOne minute and 22 seconds were spent on climate change and other environmental issues in Monday’s…Obama took up Standing Rock, albeit delicately, at his last Tribal Nations Conference.
Tue 2:06pm By Aura BogadoAfter he assumed office nearly eight years ago, President Barack Obama launched an annual gathering…Trump shows us what happens to a climate denier in denial
Tue 11:25am By Rebecca Leber
If Donald Trump is trying to run away from his well-known position as a climate change denier,…Did you know September is National Preparedness Month?
Tue 6:06am By Katie HerzogNeither did we, which seems problematic. The annual FEMA-sponsored event aims to educate Americans…A farm bill just for urban agriculture?
Tue 6:05am By Nathanael JohnsonYes, if Sen. Debbie Stabenow has her way. The Michigan Democrat announced The Urban Agriculture Act…President Obama should listen to the indigenous people fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline
Tue 5:42am By Celeste Goox yadí Worl
Something historic is happening right now in North Dakota. At the camp in Standing Rock, more than…Twitter fell for a hoax that Trump’s camp deleted his Chinese hoax tweet.
Sep 26, 2016, 10:24 pm By Grist staff
Early in Monday evening’s debate, Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump on his claims that…Clinton didn’t wait for a moderator’s question to attack Trump on climate.
Sep 26, 2016, 9:50 pm By Rebecca LeberIn a discussion over how to bring industry jobs back to the United States during their first debate…California is betting $2 million that its traffic jams can generate electricity.
Sep 26, 2016, 4:25 pm By Katie HerzogThe idea, the Associated Press reports, is that piezoelectric crystals installed under roadways…India will jump on the bandwagon for global climate action.
Sep 26, 2016, 4:01 pm By Emma Foehringer MerchantOn Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will ratify the Paris agreement on…Gary Johnson has an out-this-world plan to save us from climate change.
Sep 26, 2016, 2:02 pm By Katie HerzogThe Libertarian Party presidential candidate thinks we humans should move to another planet. After…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,…
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