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Dec 4, 2014, 8:18 pm By Grist staffBummed because you couldn’t make it to the latest, sold-out E.O. Wilson event? Fear not! We’ve…E.O. Wilson answers your questions about GMOs, ants, the Pope
Dec 4, 2014, 7:24 pm By Liz Core
This afternoon, the Grist office piled into our conference room for a brown-bag lunch and chat with…Prepare to be schooled on climate change, America
Dec 4, 2014, 6:47 pm By Sara Bernard
The Obama administration announced plans this week to launch the Climate Education and Literacy…From Hazard to Flippin, White House promotes local food in awesomely named towns
Dec 4, 2014, 4:45 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The White House just announced $800,000 in funding, from a variety of executive branch agencies, to…The Daily Show reminds us “pink fracking” against breast cancer is the most ridiculous thing ever
Dec 4, 2014, 4:26 pm By Ted Alvarez
“Doing our bit.” Well played, Baker Hughes.Comedy Central By now, everyone knows pink equals…Finally, a GMO debate without shouting
Dec 4, 2014, 2:53 pm By Nathanael JohnsonWhen I heard that Intelligence Squared U.S. — which stages high-profile, Oxford-style debates —…Why climate hawks are on the left, like it or not
Dec 4, 2014, 1:50 pm By David Roberts
The other day, I wrote a post encouraging green funders and philanthropists to get off the fence,…This guy’s typhoon tweets make the climate crisis urgent, touching, and funny all at once
Dec 4, 2014, 1:15 pm By John Light
The worst storm of 2014 is moving across the Western Pacific, headed for the Philippines. There’s…Dear U.N.: Coal plants don’t count as climate-friendly projects
Dec 4, 2014, 12:43 pm By John Light
One of the ways the U.N. hopes to help developing countries prepare for climate change is through a…Stopping a BART train in Michael Brown’s name
Dec 4, 2014, 7:22 am By Heather Smith
Last Friday, I found myself trapped in a BART station in San Francisco, listening to an announcement…Yep, Antarctica is melting away faster than ever
Dec 4, 2014, 7:04 am By Phil Plait
A new report from NASA and UC-Irvine confirms—again—that Antarctica is melting away. The…ALEC (not Baldwin) is trying to destroy the environment
Dec 3, 2014, 7:30 pm By Suzanne Goldenberg
The corporate lobbying network American Legislative Exchange Council, commonly known as ALEC, is…6 fascinating facts about the evolution of food
Dec 3, 2014, 7:10 pm By Liz Core
Don’t mind me — I’ll be over here, staring wide-eyed at my computer screen, sifting through an…NASA is headed for Mars. What, is there something wrong with Earth?
Dec 3, 2014, 6:51 pm By Eve Andrews
Maybe you’re skeptical of whether or not the U.N. Climate Summit in Lima will actually do…Hear that? That’s the sound of the ocean dying
Dec 3, 2014, 6:36 pm By Amelia Urry
An eerie silence is falling over the world’s coral reefs. Usually quite noisy, reefs are…This sausage prank exposes our weird food issues
Dec 3, 2014, 4:17 pm By Nathanael JohnsonI keep watching this video from a hidden-camera prank show (apparently in Brazil). Prank shows, at…Congrats, you survived the 15 hottest years ever
Dec 3, 2014, 3:36 pm By Sam Bliss
This year, we’ve weathered the hottest May, August, and October since humans started keeping…Fracking boom could go bust faster than Obama thinks
Dec 3, 2014, 2:24 pm By Tim McDonnell
President Obama is fond of touting America’s vast trove of natural gas—and the energy (read:…Nike, Starbucks, and other big businesses step up to support Obama’s climate rules
Dec 3, 2014, 12:34 pm By John Light
Obama’s plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants “is a dagger in the heart of…Here’s what your city will look like when the ice sheets melt
Dec 3, 2014, 7:05 am By Greg Hanscom
Seattle mapmaker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn loves cities. “I spend a lot of time thinking…
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