Wave power has finally come to the United States.
Sep 21, 2016, 5:06 am By Kate YoderLess than a mile off the shores of Hawaii, two buoys are hard at work, bobbing up and down as…The federal government is investigating ExxonMobil’s accounting related to climate change.
Sep 21, 2016, 4:01 am By Ben AdlerThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a probe into how the oil giant values its…Gas shortages hit the Southeast after a major pipeline leak in Alabama.
Sep 20, 2016, 4:45 pm By Katie HerzogThe Sept. 9 leak, in which at least 252,000 gallons of refined gas spilled into the Cahaba River…A new car from Toyota runs on a very renewable resource: human waste.
Sep 20, 2016, 4:22 pm By Katie HerzogYes, you read that right: The Toyota Mirai is powered by hydrogen fuel, which can be made from…We are the bosses of self-driving cars, say the feds.
Sep 20, 2016, 2:57 pm By Heather Smith
Autonomous cars are already steering around the streets of a few U.S. cities, like Detroit,…Yeah, Zika’s still a thing — so why won’t Congress pass funding to fight it?
Sep 20, 2016, 2:28 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
For the past seven months, public funding for Zika prevention has been caught in an extended…You know you want to be Grist’s newest fellow
Sep 20, 2016, 2:20 pm By Grist staff
Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then…Donald Trump might appoint an oil executive and anti-animal rights activist to head the Interior Department.
Sep 20, 2016, 7:17 am By Ben Adler
Politico reports that Forrest Lucas, cofounder of Lucas Oil, “is a leading contender for…Donald Trump may appoint an oil executive and anti–animal rights activist to head the Interior Department.
Sep 20, 2016, 7:17 am By Ben Adler
Politico reports that Forrest Lucas, cofounder of Lucas Oil, “is a leading contender for…Big Coal is placing its final bets in these U.S. communities.
Sep 20, 2016, 7:00 am By Grist staff
Despite the political and market forces arrayed against it, coal is still clinging to life, pushing…Can climate change be beautiful? In virtual reality, sure
Sep 20, 2016, 6:06 am By Eve Andrews
The effect of Tamiko Thiel’s augmented reality installation, which you view through your phone…Living shorelines: How nature can help us beat back rising seas
Sep 20, 2016, 6:00 am By Jeremy Deatonoriginal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcbTD_Uaa7U Next year, New York will break ground on…Sweden plans to give tax breaks for fixing stuff instead of throwing it away.
Sep 20, 2016, 5:31 am By Kate Yoder
It’s a response to the strange situation we’re in, where buying and shipping a new pair of…Coal’s Last Gamble: A choking industry bets on one more big score
Sep 20, 2016, 5:00 am By Melissa Cronin
Squeezing into a wobbly four-seater propeller plane is the only way to reach the tiny tribe of…The fires of Indonesia aren’t just killing the planet; they’re killing people.
Sep 20, 2016, 4:04 am By Nathanael Johnson
A new study by a group of respected scientists estimates that smoke from forest fires in Malaysia…A decade from now, nobody will own their own car.
Sep 19, 2016, 4:42 pm By Heather Smith
Or so says Lyft’s cofounder and president in a manifesto published on Sunday. John Zimmer writes…The GOP’s top climate hawk sees a potential Trump upside
Sep 19, 2016, 4:00 pm By Rebecca Leber
Bob Inglis is a rare kind of Republican. A former South Carolina congressman turned climate hawk,…Without the Clean Air Act, U.S. cities wouldn’t be much to look at.
Sep 19, 2016, 3:48 pm By Katie Herzog
You can see just how smoggy they’d be in a new report by Save On Energy. The energy conservation…Tens of millions of trees across the U.S. are dying.
Sep 19, 2016, 3:26 pm By Katie HerzogClimate change is a big underlying cause. And the tree loss will make climate change worse.…EPA weighs in on the cancer risks of controversial pesticide.
Sep 19, 2016, 2:51 pm By Nathanael JohnsonThe agency found that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, likely doesn’t cause…
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