After the Volkswagen emissions scandal, why should we trust companies to protect the environment?
Sep 21, 2015, 5:00 pm By Jo Confino
This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the…Too bad NASA’s plan for space-based solar never happened
Sep 21, 2015, 4:20 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
It’s always irksome when tech companies talk about their latest “moonshot.” The actual…You’ll never believe what these Emmy winners flashed on the red carpet
Sep 21, 2015, 12:33 pm By Katie Herzog
Last night’s Emmy awards were, apparently, hot. Temperatures in L.A. neared 100 degrees during…The pope’s green message is about a lot more than climate change
Sep 21, 2015, 11:33 am By Ann Kinzig
This week, Pope Francis is making his first visit ever to the U.S., and there is plenty of…Should I stop plugging in my laptop?
Sep 21, 2015, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Is it really greener to solar charge your laptop? I want to write my book on green media the…For black women, the quest for sustainable hair products can be far from easy
Sep 21, 2015, 5:03 am By Clover Hope
It’s been more than four years since I ended my lifelong reliance on relaxers (better known as…The oyster wars shed light on a bigger debate
Sep 21, 2015, 4:22 am By Nathanael Johnson
For more than a decade, people in the San Francisco Bay Area fought viciously over oysters. The…This climate-denying Catholic congressman is boycotting the pope’s speech
7:26am By Tim McDonnell
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…We made this week’s reproductive rights news a little easier to swallow
Fri 8:10pm By Eve Andrews
Hello! Welcome to Shots and Chasers, a Grist roundup of reproductive rights news. Here’s the…Dutch tower sucks smog out of the air
Fri 7:51pm By Katie Herzog
Until we collectively decide to give up fossil fuels and power the world with giant hamster wheels,…A huge amount of air pollution comes from farming, not just power plants
Fri 5:00pm By Clayton Aldern
A new study pegs a number to one of the trickiest scourges of industrialism: premature deaths…VW cheated on emissions tests, will have to fix half a million cars
Fri 3:42pm By Katie Herzog
Volkswagen could be in some very big trouble. According to the EPA, the German car manufacturer…In the new Walking Dead spinoff, black lives don’t matter
Fri 3:36pm By Aura Bogado
The opening scene in the series premiere of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead — a Los Angeles-based…David Letterman’s new gig? A show on global warming
Fri 2:04pm By Tim McDonnell
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…South Korea chops down ancient forest to build Olympic ski slope
Fri 12:41pm By Katie Herzog
Add this to the list of problems with the Olympics. South Korea, host of the 2018 Winter Games, has…This video explains how those plastic bits in face washes, scrubs, and toothpastes can hurt ecosystems
Fri 5:05am By Ana Sofia KnaufBy now, most of us know that if we want our consciences to be as squeaky clean as our faces, we…How California’s sprawl got in the way of a strong climate bill
Sep 17, 2015, 7:48 pm By Ben Adler
California came close to passing really ambitious climate change legislation last week, only to step…Urban activists set out to sue San Francisco’s suburbs
Sep 17, 2015, 7:12 pm By Heather Smith
The first time I heard of Sonja Trauss, she was mobilizing San Franciscans to support new apartment…Marco Rubio still just doesn’t understand climate change
Sep 17, 2015, 6:20 pm By Ben Adler
There is good news and bad news for climate hawks from the second Republican presidential debate.…We need better home energy storage. These companies are working on it
Sep 17, 2015, 4:29 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Earlier this summer, serial game-changer Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Powerall, a home energy…
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