Hubble just turned 25. Here’s what it was like to grow up with it.
Apr 24, 2015, 8:54 pm By Amelia Urry
Twenty-five years ago today, the 25th of April, the improbable and incomparable Hubble Space…Congratulations, Yellowstone! You’re having giant magma twins
Apr 24, 2015, 8:50 pm By Suzanne JacobsEarth’s gynecologists — er, a group of scientists — took a sonogram of Yellowstone National…What happened to America’s black farmers?
Apr 24, 2015, 8:34 pm By Madeleine Thomas
John Boyd remembers watching a USDA official toss his loan application in the trash. It was the late…We are so good at causing earthquakes that the government is starting to forecast them
Apr 24, 2015, 7:06 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Humans have gotten very good at causing earthquakes. Humans who work for the oil and gas industry,…Pope Francis forces the issue on climate change
Apr 24, 2015, 6:35 pm By Liz Core
High-profile climate researchers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and church officials will…Louis C.K. admits his generation is the worst
Apr 24, 2015, 5:49 pm By Eve AndrewsPretty much all of Louis C.K.’s humor relies on self-deprecation, so it’s not really surprising…Emma Thompson wrote an Oscar-worthy open letter to save the Arctic
Apr 24, 2015, 4:53 pm By Liz Core
In arguably her second-best* work of all time, Emma Thompson has written an open letter to the U.S.…Who should profit from solar energy?
Apr 24, 2015, 4:35 pm By Tim McDonnell
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the ongoing wars over…New rules cutting farm emissions are kind of a big deal
Apr 24, 2015, 2:23 pm By Nathanael Johnson
On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a program to cut net U.S. carbon emissions…Finally, a climate change game you’d actually want to play
Apr 23, 2015, 6:41 pm By Amelia Urry
I never really thought I’d end up playing a video game about geophysics. Well, it’s sort of a…Of course YouTube started with a silly video about elephants
Apr 23, 2015, 5:38 pm By Suzanne JacobsTen years ago today, an earnest young man by the name of Jawed Karim uploaded the world’s first…Are marijuana regulations weeding out family farmers?
Apr 23, 2015, 6:02 am By Nathanael Johnson
Perry asked me not to use his last name. It wasn’t because of the plants in his basement —…Should I kill my weeds by peeing on them?
Apr 23, 2015, 5:07 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I live in an ecosystem where native plants are perpetually engaged in epic competition with…Enviros to Elizabeth Warren: Run for president, please!
Apr 22, 2015, 10:39 pm By Lisa Hymas
Progressives have been itching for Elizabeth Warren to run for the Democratic nomination for…This is exactly why we need more women in tech
Apr 22, 2015, 7:19 pm By Eve Andrews
I’m here with a late-day addition to Woman Crush Wednesday: The Global Fund for Women organized…The 8 most clueless Earth Day tweets from Corporate America
Apr 22, 2015, 7:03 pm By Grist staff
Well, we’ve made it most of the way through Earth Day, and it’s been a wild success. The…Earth Day is dead. Long live the soul of Earth Day
Apr 22, 2015, 6:55 pm By Brentin Mock
I first heard about Earth Day in 1990, in 8th grade, when I had just started at St. Margaret Mary.…Meet the scientists making new climate discoveries (and fudge) at the South Pole
Apr 22, 2015, 5:29 pm By Lyra Pierotti
At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a remote Antarctic outpost centered over the one spot on…Obama burns Florida’s climate deniers on their home turf
Apr 22, 2015, 4:30 pm By Tim McDonnell
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Barack Obama…Can cheaper corn change the way we farm?
Apr 22, 2015, 7:09 am By Donald Carr
America has too much corn. Year after year of farmers responding to incentives to grow more of…
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