The U.S. firefighting budget is almost gone, but the forests are still burning
Aug 6, 2014, 7:07 pm By Samantha Larson
On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said we’ll likely use up our annual budget for…Exploding oil-train owners want insurance slack — just like nuclear power
Aug 6, 2014, 6:51 pm By Heather Smith
Earlier this month, the Department of Transportation released its new proposal for oil-by-rail…How much do hurricanes hurt the economy?
Aug 6, 2014, 6:02 pm By Rebecca J. Rosen
As climate change increases the intensity and (possibly) the frequency of major coastal storms, what…This custom-built bike thinks it’s the coolest on the block. It’s right.
Aug 6, 2014, 5:54 pm By Madeleine ThomasIt’s no secret that Seattle is a bike-friendly city, but we have to tip our hats to those…Turning swords to ploughshares is a balm for veterans
Aug 6, 2014, 3:43 pm By Nathanael Johnson
At the Farm to Table conference, I got to see the new documentary, Ground Operations: Farmfield to…A warmer planet means boozier wines. Trust us, that’s bad
Aug 6, 2014, 2:14 pm By Ted Alvarez
Climate change has already hit the bottle hard. Production in key places like California, Chile, and…The Detroit Lions launch a stadium recycling campaign with recycled jerseys
Aug 6, 2014, 12:24 pm By Andrew Simon
A few weeks back, we told you about the San Francisco 49ers’ spiffy new solar-powered digs. Now,…Frackers are strip-mining the Midwest for sand
Aug 6, 2014, 8:05 am By Brentin Mock
There’s a new gold rush: sand. The golden-brown stuff has become the latest, hottest commodity on…A Las Vegas community garden beats the odds
Aug 6, 2014, 7:04 am By Greg Hanscom
This is part of a series of stories about Las Vegas and climate change. Find the whole…Move over Elon — these kids built an electric car that beats the Tesla S
Aug 5, 2014, 9:12 pm By Madeleine Thomas
A group of Australian students and their new electric car prototype might give Elon Musk’s Tesla S…Ben & Jerry’s makes ice cream-powered ice cream; world peace next
Aug 5, 2014, 8:43 pm By Sara Bernard
More green points for the hippie-tacular dessert outfit Ben & Jerry’s: A factory in Hellendoorn,…Don’t worry, Californians can paint their dead lawns green
Aug 5, 2014, 7:45 pm By Samantha Larson
When California regulators approved $500-a-day fines for overwatering lawns, suburbanites across the…Canadian protesters set up camp — politely — along Line 9 pipeline
Aug 5, 2014, 5:36 pm By Heather Smith
This morning, a group of protesters drove through the farm country of Kitchener, Ontario. They…Join us for a Twitter chat on California’s drought
Aug 5, 2014, 3:58 pm By Grist staff
California is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts in the state’s history. What does…Richmond, Calif., is about to get hit with a climate justice earthquake
Aug 5, 2014, 1:59 pm By Brentin Mock
Tomorrow, the Climate Justice Alliance, a conglomerate of roughly 35 grassroots organizations from…Why’s this Tea Party PAC going after a top Tea Partier?
Aug 5, 2014, 1:43 pm By Tim Murphy
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) just wanted to get rid of a program good-government advocates consider…We are what we eat, but that doesn’t mean we can’t change
Aug 5, 2014, 12:53 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Americans are probably going to have to stop eating so much meat, so that Asians, and Africans, and…Here’s the history of environmental justice, summed up in less than 4 minutes
Aug 5, 2014, 8:08 am By Brentin Mock
I’ve done a bunch of writing here about environmental justice, the movement demanding equal…This comic strip explains why we could see more disasters like Toledo’s toxic algae bloom
Aug 5, 2014, 7:03 am By Audrey Quinn
Editor’s note: Over the weekend, officials in Toledo, Ohio, warned 400,000 residents not to drink…We’ve dug so many tunnels, future historians will think we were mole people
Aug 4, 2014, 7:08 pm By Samantha Larson
We humans have gotten pretty good at leaving our mark on the planet. So much so that, to some…
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