Amtrak wait? Blame the freight
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The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a train that hasn’t shown up yet. That’s fine. This is…It’s a historic year for temperature extremes
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Climate.govMinimum temperature ranks for January-July 2014 within the historical record (1895-2014),…Why Kansas is doing flour right
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Norm OedingJanzen Family Farm/Little Red Hen BakeryNewton, Kan. Kansas grows more wheat than any…Watch the world go up in fracking flares
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Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then…Will Obama do the right thing on smog this time?
Sep 3, 2014, 1:58 pm By Ben Adler
Over the coming year, President Obama will either repeat or undo one of his greatest insults to the…Think the Southwest’s drought is bad now? It could last a generation or more
Sep 3, 2014, 1:17 pm By Tom Philpott
Late-summer 2014 has brought uncomfortable news for residents of the US Southwest — and I’m not…Why Iowa is doing salumi right
Sep 3, 2014, 12:25 pm By Eve Andrews
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Jeff Marshall rolls along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, counting barns on the horizon — 50 so far…Why Indiana is doing sauerkraut right
Sep 2, 2014, 9:05 pm By Eve Andrews
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Sep 2, 2014, 12:20 pm By Eve Andrews
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Sep 2, 2014, 12:07 pm By David Roberts
Hey there! It’s me. I’m back. I’ve been away on a year-long sabbatical. I wish I could tell…Hip Hop is not down with Monsanto
Sep 2, 2014, 6:51 am By Brentin Mock
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Sep 2, 2014, 6:00 am By Heather Smith
I’ve been covering the carbon divestment movement on and off for Grist since I started here nearly…Why we really should care about boosting farm yields
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Crystal-ball gazers looking for the future of food often start with this question: How the heck are…Will I poison myself if I reuse this plastic water bottle?
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Q. Is it OK to reuse the bottles that bottled water comes in? Sometimes when I am at a conference…Four reasons that ice bucket challenge went crazy viral
Sep 1, 2014, 6:40 am By Heather Smith
At a certain point last week the knowledge that people I knew were dousing themselves with buckets…
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