Move over corn. Cacti can power cars, too
Jul 1, 2015, 5:14 pm By Grist staff
Is prickly pear cactus, also known as a witch magic hangover cure, the next cheap, drought-friendly…So now we have beautiful underwater greenhouses. Why? Why not!
Jul 1, 2015, 4:28 pm By Amelia Urry
What thrives at 79 degrees and 20 feet below sea level, and tastes like a strawberry? Actually, it…Happy Canada Day! There are needles in my potato
Jul 1, 2015, 3:57 pm By Eve Andrews
Today is Canada Day, and really all you need to know to properly observe this day is that Prince…Lego wants to remake its famous bricks with sustainable plastic
Jul 1, 2015, 3:13 pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
Legos — aka the building blocks of childhood — just got way more badass. The Lego Group…What environmentalists can take from a week of progressive wins
Jul 1, 2015, 11:01 am By Ryan Schleeter
I’m gay, I’m an environmentalist, and for the first time in a while, I’m excited. Last Friday,…Who protects electronic workers from toxic chemicals?
Jul 1, 2015, 5:30 am By Jim Morris
The Center for Public Integrity is publishing an important series on toxic exposures in the…Celebrate Independence Day with these rad women (and popsicles)
Jul 1, 2015, 5:05 am By Madeleine Thomas
Welcome to Woman Crush Wednesday! There’s no shortage of fascinating things to talk about at this…Shell will be allowed to pester walruses in the Arctic, but not as much as it would like
Jul 1, 2015, 1:01 am By John Light
Nobody’s happy with the Obama administration’s ruling on how Shell is to treat the walruses and…Here’s why you shouldn’t worry about the Supreme Court’s latest environmental ruling
Jun 30, 2015, 10:45 pm By Jack Lienke
Last Friday, a five-justice majority of the Supreme Court kicked off the weekend with a bang when it…Ocean acidification: Not just for oceans anymore!
Jun 30, 2015, 8:14 pm By Amelia Urry
Move over, ocean acidification — or don’t, actually. “Freshwater acidification” doesn’t…Mary Iverson makes climate change paintings that are actually cool
Jun 30, 2015, 7:50 pm By Eve Andrews
When I first saw Mary Iverson’s paintings on Instagram, they didn’t scream “THIS IS ART WITH…This amazing map is a guide to San Francisco’s hidden waterways
Jun 30, 2015, 7:34 pm By Heather Smith
The first time I went on one of Joel Pomerantz’s tours of San Francisco, we hiked up to one of the…Scientists take a page from super cows and engineer double-bacon hogs
Jun 30, 2015, 6:46 pm By Nathanael Johnson
We’ve had super cows for a long time — hulking dreadnoughts of rippling muscle, created when…Airlines are investing in biofuels. How’s that shaking out?
Jun 30, 2015, 6:31 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Flying on an airplane is one of the most carbon-intensive things you can do. Whenever I calculate my…How buying in bulk actually wastes food
Jun 30, 2015, 4:20 pm By Eric Holthaus
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…London will try to beat traffic and air pollution with this new electric bus
Jun 30, 2015, 4:00 pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
Brits, rejoice! London’s iconic double-decker buses could get a new green makeover. On Monday,…China, Brazil, and the U.S. all unveil new climate goals
Jun 30, 2015, 3:20 pm By John Light
Three of the world’s biggest polluters — China, Brazil, and the U.S. — all announced new…These ocean trash shoes aren’t even ugly!
Jun 30, 2015, 1:49 pm By Grist staff
They are knitted from enormous plastic gill nets left drifting at the bottom of the ocean … and…Trucks kill bicyclists all the time. This tool could change that
Jun 30, 2015, 1:25 pm By Heather Smith
Trucks are the killingest vehicles out there. They make up a disproportionately small percentage of…“True Detective” makes us wonder: Is Los Angeles totally unloveable?
Jun 29, 2015, 7:58 pm By Eve AndrewsIn this installment of Green Screen, we highlight the greenest parts of your favorite TV guilty…
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