After 71 million trips, bike shares see their first fatality
Jul 5, 2016, 4:34 pm By Katie Herzog
An unfortunate milestone was reached last weekend in Chicago when a woman was hit by a truck and…Coal baron is trying to elect Trump with old tricks
Jul 5, 2016, 2:18 pm By Katie Herzog
The owner of the nation’s largest private coal company backs the GOP presidential nominee,…The crazy true story of how George W. Bush secretly tried to raise the gas tax
Jul 5, 2016, 5:59 am By Nathanael Johnson
Remember that time the George W. Bush administration tried to sneak a new gas tax onto the books and…Taking down a wooden playset? Don’t make this mistake.
Jul 4, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, We are tearing down an old children’s play set and we are wondering what to do with…We’re really heating up this Independence Day
Jul 4, 2016, 5:06 am By Samantha Lee
Sometimes at Grist HQ, we ask ourselves things like: “Just how miserable will the Fourth of July…Taking a road trip this Fourth of July? Here’s how it all adds up.
Jul 3, 2016, 7:07 am By Bobby Magill
When an expected record-breaking 36 million Americans take their holiday road trips this Fourth of…Taking a road trip this Fourth of July? Here’s how it all adds up.
Jul 3, 2016, 7:07 am By Bobby Magill
When an expected record-breaking 36 million Americans take their holiday road trips this Fourth of…Celebrate America by avoiding our national embarrassment: Hot dogs
Jul 3, 2016, 7:03 am By Melissa Cronin
Independence Day has historically been a time to remember our forbears, to consider the…Wonky Mr. Potato Head wants you to know it’s not the shape that counts
Jul 2, 2016, 7:01 am By Cody Permenter
“Fugly spud” isn’t the name a self-loving starch wants to be branded with. But Mr. Potato…In Paris, bicycle highways are trés chic
Jul 2, 2016, 6:06 am By Hélène Bauer
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Let’s admit it: Crickets are just another food fad
Jul 1, 2016, 4:57 pm By Katie Herzog
Crickets are hot in the culinary world right now, and as far as food trends go, it seems like a…Ozone hole not so holey anymore
Jul 1, 2016, 4:30 pm By Katie Herzog
Here’s something we don’t get to say very often here at Grist dot org: Good news, humans!…Harry Potter implicated in first driverless car death
Jul 1, 2016, 1:49 pm By Katie Herzog
A man died in a car crash while his Tesla sedan was in autopilot mode, the company announced on…Now there’s one less way for Big Coal to screw over Americans
Jul 1, 2016, 11:55 am By Ben Adler
The Obama administration took a small step on Thursday to prevent coal companies from fleecing…Big countries are still waiting to ratify the Paris climate deal. What’s the holdup?
Jul 1, 2016, 5:05 am By Clayton Aldern
In the wake of the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union, environmentalists have been in a bit…The group that was supposed to make palm oil sustainable just disappeared
Jun 30, 2016, 5:19 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The skyrocketing global demand for palm oil is devastating forests in Southeast Asia, and now a…Over half of Antarctica’s badass Adélie penguins could get wiped out by climate change
Jun 30, 2016, 4:54 pm By Samantha Lee
Adélie penguins are kind of the bad bitches of the Antarctic: They regularly fight turf wars with…Hey oceans: We need to talk about your odor problem
Jun 30, 2016, 3:00 pm By Katie Herzog
As if greenhouse gas emissions weren’t giving us enough to worry about already, here’s a new…Al Gore’s daughter arrested at climate protest
Jun 30, 2016, 2:10 pm By Katie Herzog
Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al Gore, was among 23 activists arrested in Boston on Wednesday…Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try.
Jun 30, 2016, 1:14 pm By Aura Bogado
Richard Minnich, a professor of science at University of California at Riverside, likes to play a…
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