Why the Koch brothers’ war against clean energy is still failing
May 6, 2015, 9:33 pm By Bentham Paulos
For the past four years, a set of right-wing advocacy groups, largely funded by the Koch brothers…This infographic shows why good bread costs more dough
May 6, 2015, 6:28 pm By Eve Andrews
The transition from lots of mid-size farms toward fewer, behemoth operations that we’ve discussed…What swims in rivers, rhymes with drought, and is dying in California?
May 6, 2015, 6:14 pm By Madeleine Thomas
California’s ongoing megadrought has taken a lot of prisoners: organic dairy, almonds, and hell…Instead of feeling bad about being single and childless, this woman started an awesome farm
May 6, 2015, 5:43 pm By Liz CoreWhen Danelle Myer got divorced at age 30, she expected she’d just keep the same job, remarry, and…This tool could help Montreal cyclists route around bad air
May 6, 2015, 5:19 pm By Heather Smith
Yesterday, I wrote about a new project from the Sierra Club that, basically, lets you get texts from…Elevated paths give San Francisco cyclists the high ground
May 6, 2015, 3:50 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Pretty soon, bikers in San Francisco won’t just have the moral high ground over cars: They’ll…Oakland might not have much water, but it’s littered with kittens
May 6, 2015, 3:41 pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
In addition to mandatory water rationing, the California drought could be behind another peculiar…California moving to stage 2 of drought grief: Anger
May 6, 2015, 3:11 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Californians are supposed to cut their water use by 25 percent. So far those of us in the Golden…We just hit 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, for a whole month
May 6, 2015, 2:37 pm By Amelia Urry
I have good news, and I have bad news. First, the bad news: The atmosphere just passed…Which is scarier: The San Andreas Fault trailer or Seattle’s future earthquake?
May 6, 2015, 1:31 pm By Eve AndrewsHere in sunny Seattle, we live in terror that one or all of the following might happen at any…Jane Goodall, Barbie, and a comedian after contraception: It’s Woman Crush Wednesday
May 6, 2015, 5:00 am By Madeleine Thomas
Welcome back to Woman Crush Wednesday! In this week’s roundup, we’ve got women standing up to…What farm cooperatives can do for the food system — and farmers
May 5, 2015, 9:29 pm By Darby Minow Smith
If you’re from a city, the word “cooperative” might conjure up visions of dreadlocked cashiers…Flying a solar plane across the Pacific is about as easy as it sounds
May 5, 2015, 4:20 pm By Alex Davies
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…The smog that texted me
May 5, 2015, 4:14 pm By Heather Smith
The Sierra Club has just launched a free smog pollution text alert system (available in both English…In Germany, elderly bike messengers will deliver your local veggies
May 5, 2015, 3:45 pm By Liz Core
In the latest installment in our series, Everything In Europe Is So Freakin’ Neat, we bring you a…Just like you, NASA wants to send your kids to Mars — but for different reasons
May 5, 2015, 3:38 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Fear not, humanity — NASA says it’s on track to put humans on Mars sometime in the 2030s, which…New EPA carbon rules would save thousands of lives, science says
May 5, 2015, 3:26 pm By Amelia Urry
We’re all thinking it, I’ll just say it: Carbon emissions regulations are boring. Nine times out…Seattle’s mayor gums up Shell’s Arctic drilling plans
May 5, 2015, 3:05 pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
Despite months of public outcry and protests against plans to moor Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic oil…Could wildfires undermine California’s grand climate goals?
May 5, 2015, 2:02 pm By Tim McDonnell
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week, California Gov.…Watch Grist writers read mean comments
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