Our bodies don’t need meat. So why can’t we give it up?
Jun 13, 2016, 5:00 am By Nathanael Johnson
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that…Organic milk is not the same as better milk
Jun 12, 2016, 6:38 am By Sarah Jampel
My impulse, when facing the wall of milk at the grocery store, is to reach for the organic gallon.…Alaska is way, way hotter than normal right now
Jun 11, 2016, 7:01 am By Andrea Thompson
Alaska just can’t seem to shake the fever it has been running. This spring was easily the hottest…Stop showering so damn much
Jun 11, 2016, 5:03 am By Katie Herzog
James Hamblin, former actual doctor and current senior editor at the Atlantic, hosts a video…Icelandic power plan buries its carbon pollution, turns it to stone
Jun 10, 2016, 3:55 pm By Nick Stockton
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Air pollution named as leading cause in strokes
Jun 10, 2016, 2:58 pm By Katie Herzog
Each year, around 15 million people globally suffer from strokes and it is the fifth leading cause…Our favorite Bernie Sanders moments
Jun 10, 2016, 2:31 pm By Clayton Aldern
He called climate change the greatest threat to our national security. He pulled Hillary Clinton to…We are fleeing the world’s coasts
Jun 10, 2016, 1:18 pm By Kate Yoder
As if beaches weren’t already scary (think: Shark attacks! Seagulls swooping in to snatch a…777 days later, Congress hasn’t lifted a finger for Flint
Jun 10, 2016, 11:53 am By Katie Herzog
It’s been 777 days since Michigan switched Flint’s water supply from Detroit to Flint River…Watch Obama slow jam his climate legacy
Jun 10, 2016, 5:13 am By Grist staff
original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwYbVx_-qg President Obama slow jammed his…Won’t you be my neighbor — say fewer Americans than ever
Jun 10, 2016, 5:05 am By Katharine Wroth
When the first police car pulled up, I didn’t pay much attention. By the time several more rescue…In the Caribbean, a tale of murder in a depleted forest
Jun 9, 2016, 8:26 pm By Aura Bogadooriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYidimYQ6iE Nearly all of Haiti’s forests are…Republicans in Congress just passed a law giving EPA more power
Jun 9, 2016, 5:46 pm By Rebecca Leber
Congress did something this week that’s practically unheard of. It handed the Environmental…Species-wide gene editing could potentially save life on earth — or permanently damage it
Jun 9, 2016, 5:12 pm By Xian Chiang-Waren
What if scientists could alter an entire species — say, by Zika-proofing the Aedes aegypti…El Niño is officially over. What comes next?
Jun 9, 2016, 3:48 pm By Brian Kahn
Did you wake up this morning with an overwhelming sense of sadness, a feeling that there was a hole…Bay Area voters approve a whole new kind of climate tax
Jun 9, 2016, 1:59 pm By Katie Herzog
Bay Area voters approved a first-of-its-kind tax to fight the effects of climate change. Measure…Our rotten immigration policies have left us with a bunch of rotten food
Jun 9, 2016, 6:06 am By Nathanael Johnson
An unexpected consequence of ramped-up border patrolling: Lots of food rotting in the fields, and…You thought planes burned a lot of carbon? Say hello to cruise ships.
Jun 9, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I read an article by an environmentalist that the lifestyle change with the biggest…Solar panels don’t raise regular utility rates—and might even lower them
Jun 9, 2016, 5:05 am By Heather Smith
In the early days of solar, there was some concern — nay, terror — of how it could destroy…India and U.S. team up to give boost to solar power startups
Jun 8, 2016, 7:39 pm By Ben Adler
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is serious about fighting climate change, and about…
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