What happens when an NAACP leader becomes a climate activist? Some really cool stuff
Feb 6, 2016, 7:18 am By Laurie Mazur
Kathy Egland was one of the first black students to desegregate her high school in Hattiesburg,…This solar water purifier is a simple and powerful tool for fighting climate change
Feb 5, 2016, 8:07 pm By Kate Yoder
We’ve found some creative uses for the sun’s rays over the years — think sundials, shadow…Clinton wants to move toward banning fossil fuel extraction on public land
Feb 5, 2016, 5:52 pm By Katie Herzog
After the latest Democratic presidential debate on Thursday, Hillary Clinton told an activist with…This Chipotle conspiracy theory is the craziest thing we’ve read all day
Feb 5, 2016, 5:30 pm By Katie Herzog
Grab those tinfoil hats, readers: There’s a conspiracy afoot. Writing for fringe website Natural…A lack of battery recycling could be hurting this important bacterium
Feb 5, 2016, 5:16 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Meet Shewanella oneidensis: Wikimedia Commons This affable little bacterium, named after Lake…Should we feel guilty for watching the Super Bowl?
Feb 5, 2016, 4:45 pm By Grist staff
Should football be banned? It’s been nearly two years since the National Football League admitted…Which is worse for women, alcohol or patronizing health advice?
Feb 5, 2016, 3:28 pm By Eve Andrews
This week, the Centers for Disease Control caused a real firestorm by recommending that all sexually…Obama wants to tax Big Oil and spend the money on green transportation projects
Feb 5, 2016, 2:22 pm By Katie Herzog
The United States isn’t exactly known for its mass transportation. In all but the biggest…A movement to make Trump Park great again — by renaming it for Pete Seeger
Feb 5, 2016, 1:26 pm By Ben Adler
One of the odder features of New York state’s highway system is the presence of several large…It happened to me: The NFL built a “Super Bowl City” in my city
Feb 5, 2016, 12:53 pm By Heather Smith
A long time ago, when I first moved to San Francisco, I was walking through North Beach one morning,…The world’s biggest solar plant takes important step forward
Feb 4, 2016, 6:52 pm By Kate Yoder
Ouarzazate, Morocco, located on a plateau at the edge of the Sahara, is best known to Westerners as…The X-Files, conspiracy theories, and the ‘90s: The inconvenient truth is out there
Feb 4, 2016, 6:31 pm By Heather Smith
There are some great and spooky films out there about the environment. Well, one truly great film:…Growing forests gobble up carbon like growing teenagers raiding the fridge
Feb 4, 2016, 5:16 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
The relationship between trees and humans has long been a simple one: They’ve always given us…San Francisco wants workers to use vacation days to accommodate the Super Bowl
Feb 4, 2016, 5:02 pm By Aura Bogado
If you’re like me (and unlike legions of overexcited NFL fans), you have not been paying a lot of…Hillary Clinton and the Flint water crisis
Feb 4, 2016, 4:16 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the…Should I buy a horsehair mattress?
Feb 4, 2016, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, I need to buy new mattresses. Which are environmentally better: foam (100 percent…U.S. food industry workers are pretty forked over
Feb 3, 2016, 8:31 pm By Katie Herzog
Food service is not easy. I learned this lesson at 16, when I got my first job at a local Mexican…Watch out, corporations: Space detectives are watching you ruin the planet
Feb 3, 2016, 8:09 pm By Kate Yoder
Hey, corporations destroying the planet: If you’ve been getting away with illegally logging…Fracking waste more likely to be located in poor communities and neighborhoods of color
Feb 3, 2016, 6:30 pm By Raven Rakia
Hydraulic fracturing — using a high-pressure injection of liquid into rock to release natural gas…Will climate change move agriculture indoors? And will that be a good thing?
Feb 3, 2016, 5:54 pm By Heather Smith
As climate change does its thing to America, what it is going to do to the nation’s food supply…
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