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…Will people care about climate change if it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away?
Aug 4, 2014, 5:26 pm By Jim Meyer
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by molecular biologist David Ng and 20 science…Conservationists need to get out of the woods — and get serious about diversity
Aug 4, 2014, 3:28 pm By Greg Hanscom
I was deep in the woods when I met Mike — and by the woods, I mean the city. I’d just arrived in…
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