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Dec 23, 2014, 7:08 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…Protest too much? 2014 was a big year for rabblerousing
Dec 23, 2014, 6:03 am By Heather Smith
Last year at this time I sat in a hotel lobby, surrounded by multigenerational families digging into…Obama blows a chance to crack down on coal
Dec 22, 2014, 7:35 pm By Ben Adler
On Friday, the Obama administration quietly passed up an opportunity to make the coal industry clean…Could flooding finally wake Americans up to the climate crisis?
Dec 22, 2014, 4:14 pm By David Roberts
One of the perennial discussions in climate circles is about which impacts will break through the…This was an epic year for droughts, floods, and extreme weather
Dec 22, 2014, 2:26 pm By John Metcalfe
Stick your hand over a lit stove and you can get a feel for 2014’s overall climatic situation:…From Trump to Hobby Lobby, the worst anti-science stories of 2014
Dec 22, 2014, 1:24 pm By Tim McDonnell
2014 had its fair share of landmark scientific accomplishments: dramatic cuts to the cost of…This is the kind of climate bill Congress should pass (but won’t)
Dec 22, 2014, 1:15 pm By Ben Adler
The Senate’s two leading climate hawks, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Brian Schatz of…Does your kid want a BMX bike or homemade soap? Grist investigates
Dec 22, 2014, 8:08 am By Eve AndrewsEvery year, the holidays remind us that we are perpetually and inescapably surrounded by love stuff.…How to skip the gift wrap and enjoy the present instead
Dec 22, 2014, 7:19 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…Help! My neighbor is gassing me out with her dryer sheets!
Dec 22, 2014, 6:58 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. My neighbor does laundry several times a day. She uses dryer sheets and they permeate the air and…Eat less. Get healthy. Feed the world.
Dec 22, 2014, 6:11 am By Nathanael Johnson
Whenever I talk about how we might feed ourselves more equitably and sustainably, I find…This bourbon balls recipe will knock your socks off
Dec 21, 2014, 7:40 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…Make your own Febreze, no benzisothiazolinone required
Dec 20, 2014, 7:27 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…Villains who poisoned W. Va. drinking water could end up behind bars
Dec 19, 2014, 8:16 pm By Sam Bliss
Remember back in January when a chemical spill poisoned drinking water for 300,000 West…Obama sounds like he’s about to reject the Keystone pipeline
Dec 19, 2014, 5:34 pm By Ben Adler
Speaking at his end-of-the-year press conference on Friday afternoon, President Obama sounded very…Is China’s demand for coal going to keep rising? Don’t bet on it
Dec 19, 2014, 5:16 pm By David Roberts
The fate of the world more or less depends on the trajectory of coal use in China. (To say nothing…We wrote (and sang!) these climate apocalypse holiday carols just for you
Dec 19, 2014, 4:57 pm By Sara BernardGetting sick of all the holiday cheer? Want to stick it to your climate-change-denying relatives and…California needs 16 million Olympic swimming pools worth of rain to end the drought
Dec 19, 2014, 3:39 pm By Julia Lurie
Over the past two weeks, California has gotten a deluge of rain, lifting its reservoir levels and…You can look forward to 30 days of flooding, America
Dec 19, 2014, 2:51 pm By Kate Sheppard
Most coastal regions of the United States will see 30 or more days of flooding by 2050 thanks to…Dutch weedburgers won’t get you high, but they could save the planet
Dec 19, 2014, 2:34 pm By Liz Core
The Dutch are turning fast food into superfood with the new “weedburger.” And although the…
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