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
Tue 10:45pm 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!
Tue 8:14pm 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
Tue 7:50pm 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
Tue 7:34pm 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
Tue 6:46pm 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?
Tue 6:31pm 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
Tue 4:20pm 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
Tue 4:00pm 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
Tue 3:20pm 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!
Tue 1:49pm 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
Tue 1:25pm 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…You should be excited about this SCOTUS decision, too
Jun 29, 2015, 7:01 pm By Sara Bernard
Amid big huzzahs for the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage last week, there was another,…GM wheat trial fails, but science wins anyway
Jun 29, 2015, 4:50 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Five years ago, scientists at Rothamsted Research in England began breeding wheat that could be…The Dalai Lama calls for swift climate action and pals around with Patti Smith
Jun 29, 2015, 4:14 pm By Ana Sofia KnaufGlastonbury music festival-goers got one hell of a treat this past weekend – and I’m not just…Humans really are unprecedented in Earth’s geological history — and that’s a bad thing
Jun 29, 2015, 3:40 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
There’s no doubt that a) humans have messed up the planet big time and b) our ability to…Do we really need to spend money on social science?
Jun 29, 2015, 2:56 pm By Amelia Urry
When it comes to budgeting out a pittance to cover a range of activities, I probably should be an…The Supreme Court just punched a hole in Obama’s plan to clean up power plants
Jun 29, 2015, 1:20 pm By John Light
The Obama administration has had a pretty good week at the Supreme Court, but that changed this…
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