This power plant slurps up water for Arizona — and burns 15 tons of coal a minute
Jun 16, 2015, 7:05 pm By Abrahm Lustgarten
This story was produced through a collaboration between ProPublica and Matter. A couple of miles…Amazing photosynthetic furniture could grow eco-friendly meals
Jun 16, 2015, 6:55 pm By Grist staffMost furniture is pretty damn one-note. That chair? It just suspends a relaxed rear. A table? Wow,…He may be pope, but that doesn’t mean he can stop climate change
Jun 16, 2015, 4:58 pm By Ben Adler
Liberals love nothing better than a religious figure who takes their side, and the media loves…The U.S. is cutting out trans fats from processed foods by 2018
Jun 16, 2015, 2:48 pm By Grist staff
Time to start hoarding vintage Cheetos for eBay: This morning, the FDA announced it will ban the…This drone footage of an iceberg collapsing is sad, cool
Jun 16, 2015, 1:58 pm By Grist staffAs we chronicle the death of the world’s ice in high-def, we may want to enlist Canadian…Meet moringa, the (latest) world’s most amazing superfood
Jun 16, 2015, 1:55 pm By Nathanael Johnson
I have an involuntary reflex to the word “superfood”: It makes a single eyebrow twitch upward.…What climate deniers get wrong on “politically motivated” science
Jun 16, 2015, 1:26 pm By Naomi Oreskes
Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that…Can I eat urban-grown produce without getting poisoned?
Jun 16, 2015, 12:56 pm By Ask Umbra®
Q. I am always overjoyed when I see free fruit trees on public land (and new websites/apps are…Climate refugees are already finding asylum in Seattle
Jun 16, 2015, 5:00 am By Ana Sofia Knauf
Before his world was thrown into turmoil, Fasil Tekola lived a comfortable life in Ethiopia’s…How smart meters are helping California save water
Jun 15, 2015, 8:11 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
“The sprinklers were running so hard at a McDonalds in Long Beach, California, recently that…California kids may not have to worry about pesticides at school anymore
Jun 15, 2015, 7:42 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Braving high school every day is enough of a drag without having to worry about, like, pesticides…American teens have incredibly depressing beliefs about money
Jun 15, 2015, 6:59 pm By Eve Andrews
Teens — tragic and tortured as they are — are just as materialistic as they’ve ever been, but…You probably missed this climate change promise hidden in Clinton’s speech
Jun 15, 2015, 6:05 pm By Ben Adler
Hillary Clinton’s official campaign launch speech Saturday was largely greeted with yawns from the…Watch this amazing stampede of 800 goats in California
Jun 15, 2015, 4:15 pm By Liz CoreIt’s that time of year again: goat time — when hundreds of happy goats stampede down the…The Pope’s encyclical just leaked, and he’s seriously dissing climate deniers
Jun 15, 2015, 3:11 pm By Stephanie Kirchgaessner
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Here’s another reason why oil refineries (literally) suck
Jun 15, 2015, 1:41 pm By Julia Lurie
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Why Seattle still has a huge garbage problem
Jun 15, 2015, 9:51 am By Sara Bernard
It’s a warm Monday afternoon at Seattle’s South Transfer Station – a newly renovated,…How much does the world spend to subsidize fossil fuels? The IMF wants to know
Jun 15, 2015, 4:03 am By Heather SmithThe folks at the IMF – yes, that great Satan of the ’90s – just released a working paper on…Climate-hawk senator is “very disappointed” in Obama on Arctic drilling
Jun 14, 2015, 7:00 am By Chip Giller
The Senate’s most ardent climate hawk is not pleased with President Obama. “I’m very…Subaru’s new sustainability pledge is pretty weak. Here’s why
Jun 13, 2015, 6:00 am By Auden Schendler
A friend who recently bought a Subaru emailed me a link to the company’s heavily promoted new…
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