California officials care about saving water, except when it comes to their begonias
Oct 7, 2014, 7:19 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Earlier this summer, California’s water officials enacted some pretty stringent restrictions on…How many Nobel Prize-winning physicists did it take to invent the LED lightbulb?
Oct 7, 2014, 7:05 pm By Sam Bliss
In the early 1990s, three physicists figured out how to make white light with a tiny fraction of…Emma Thompson just won our hearts with some straight talk on climate change
Oct 7, 2014, 4:05 pm By Amelia Urry
Is it weird that my crush on Emma Thompson rivals the world’s crush on Leo “Man Bun” Dicaprio?…Your coffee is about to get a lot more expensive
Oct 7, 2014, 3:43 pm By Liz Core
Brazilian arabica trees flower in the fall. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Yeah, well, don’t hold…Watch the U.S. face off against China on this carbon emissions map
Oct 7, 2014, 2:49 pm By Sara Bernard
The Chinese get a bad rap when it comes to carbon emissions, but they’re hardly the worst…The truth about Arctic sea ice melt, and its inevitable denial
Oct 7, 2014, 2:49 pm By Phil Plait
First, the truth: After a summer of seasonal melting, on Sept. 17, 2014, Arctic sea-ice…These 10 countries have pledged $2.3 billion to fight climate change. The U.S. isn’t one of them.
Oct 7, 2014, 2:10 pm By James West
Poorer countries typically get the rough end of global warming: Not only are they more likely to…Radical judge kneecaps clean electricity under cover of boringness
Oct 7, 2014, 1:17 pm By David Roberts
As John Oliver memorably said about net neutrality, “if you want to do something evil, wrap it…Behind every crumbling downtown is a billionaire who wants to save it
Oct 7, 2014, 7:06 am By Heather Smith
“Come over and join us!” said the group of Detroiters at the end of the ballroom, hoisting their…Who is the real environmentalist hero(ine) of Twin Peaks?
Oct 6, 2014, 8:21 pm By Eve Andrews
Here at Grist HQ, like much of the internet (read: approximately 63 percent of my Twitter feed), we…Climate activist explains why going green is like coming out
Oct 6, 2014, 7:25 pm By Sara Bernard
When Gerod Rody founded OUT for Sustainability — an LGBTQ environmental advocacy group — in…This Amish paradise goes beyond organic farming
Oct 6, 2014, 6:04 pm By Liz Core
Amish farmers could teach us a thing or two about agriculture. Lesson No. 1: You can smell the…Climate change’s relationship with the sea just got more mysterious
Oct 6, 2014, 4:54 pm By Amelia Urry
I have abysmal news: The deep oceans are not getting warmer. OK, that sounds like a good thing. But…Couldn’t make SXSW Eco? Watch it here
Oct 6, 2014, 3:14 pm By Grist staffThe lineup of this year’s SXSW Eco reads like the who’s who of environmentalism. From famed…Watch kids deliver congressional climate deniers’ greatest hits
Oct 6, 2014, 3:08 pm By Darby Minow SmithKids say the darndest things when quoting congressional climate deniers. In this Only One Climate…The cruel and increasingly usual punishment of prison heat islands
Oct 6, 2014, 2:28 pm By Brentin Mock
You must read the story of Kalief Browder in the Oct. 6 issue of the New Yorker, about how three…Farm tech isn’t a war between good and evil — it’s a quest for whatever works
Oct 6, 2014, 11:23 am By Nathanael Johnson
On Sept. 29, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a call for a “paradigm shift…Nature called. She wants you to know she’s over you.
Oct 6, 2014, 9:03 am By Amelia UrryThat old saw that “nature is talking to you” has never been taken so literally since Disney’s…How many times can I use a towel before it gets gross?
Oct 6, 2014, 7:03 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I need a towel strategy. I don’t like using a wet towel to dry off when I step out of the…How to pick mushrooms without poisoning yourself
Oct 5, 2014, 11:17 am By Tama Matsuoka Wong
Foraged vegetables are always more fun to cook. So Food52’s resident forager, Tama Matsuoka…
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