When I recycle a beer bottle, does it secretly end up in the landfill?
Oct 12, 2015, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q.Dear Umbra, Here in my environmentally proud city, a local newspaper recently asserted that much…Dirty energy plutocrats are trying to buy the presidential election
Oct 12, 2015, 1:23 am By Ben Adler
It’s nice to read all those stories about Bernie Sanders’ army of small donors, isn’t it?…Communities in the San Joaquin Valley still don’t have clean water. Here’s why
Oct 10, 2015, 8:00 am By Laura Bliss
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…You’re free to air-dry those chonies now, California
Oct 9, 2015, 8:02 pm By Heather Smith
Earlier this year, I wrote about a story in San Francisco in which a landlord was trying to…New York’s JFK airport has an urban farm. Wait, what?
Oct 9, 2015, 7:22 pm By Kate Yoder
The potatoes in your bag of complimentary airline chips could someday come from a farm at —…Even as House descends into chaos, it manages to do big favor for Big Oil
Oct 9, 2015, 7:13 pm By Ben Adler
You thought the House of Representatives was mired in dysfunction, unable to find anyone competent…Solar power access looking a lot brighter in California
Oct 9, 2015, 7:12 pm By Raven Rakia
An important part of all the talk around renewable energy is how we can make it accessible to…Pour a glass of booze and saddle up for this week’s birth control news
Oct 9, 2015, 6:30 pm By Eve Andrews
October is, quite possibly, my favorite month — and one that, this time around, has put…Media disaster reporting can throw a wrench in the way you process disaster risk
Oct 9, 2015, 4:59 pm By Clayton Aldern
The last time I read about a BASE-jumping accident, I remember thinking to myself, Huh, BASE…Trump heads to U.K. supreme court over wind farm spoiling his precious view
Oct 9, 2015, 4:34 pm By Katie Herzog
Donald Trump took a moment out of his busy schedule making a mockery of American politics to take a…California bans microbeads, fish rejoice
Oct 9, 2015, 4:02 pm By Katie Herzog
California is now the latest state in the nation to bad microbeads, those little ball thingies in…Self-driving cars are good. Too good
Oct 9, 2015, 3:37 pm By Amelia Urry
Guys, we’re so not ready for the future. The chrome-plated, fuel-efficient, robot-everything…Cities could be big players when it comes to cutting carbon emissions
Oct 9, 2015, 11:20 am By Ben Adler
Cities in the U.S. can’t set fuel-economy standards for private cars. They don’t get to decide…Amazon makes a big play for the Etsy crowd
Oct 8, 2015, 8:20 pm By Katie Herzog
As Amazon’s quest to control every aspect of modern commerce marches forth, the mega retailer has…Good news: Wind energy is the cheapest energy source in Germany and the U.K.
Oct 8, 2015, 5:10 pm By Kate Yoder
Thanks to the plummeting price of solar and wind energy, fossil fuels might be going the way of…This pumpkin shortage will be the scariest thing about Halloween
Oct 8, 2015, 4:17 pm By Katie Herzog
Ahhh! Fall! The best time of the year: Sweaters come out of the closet, leaves swirl around your…Coral reefs are looking pretty hot right now
Oct 8, 2015, 3:56 pm By Grist staff
If you thought bleaching was passé, both a reinvented Justin Bieber and some equally…D.C.’s crap is finally being put to good use: generating clean energy
Oct 8, 2015, 1:39 pm By Katie Herzog
D.C., the American city most full of shit, is now powered by it. The Washington Post reports that…Self-driving cars: Should we love them or hate them?
Oct 8, 2015, 6:00 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Dear Umbra, Every time I hear more about the self-driving cars of the near future, I get crazy…The state of global climate finance is looking … not awful
Oct 7, 2015, 7:40 pm By Clayton Aldern
In Copenhagen in 2009, diplomats from industrialized countries agreed to stitch together $100…
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