When did Republicans start hating the environment?
2:02pm By Chris Mooney
It’s one of those facts that sweeps you back into an alien, almost unrecognizable era. On July 9,…Australia responds to shark attacks by … attacking sharks first
7:57am By Jim Meyer
The Simpsons were wrong: Australian toilets don’t go backwards. Sadly, the same can’t be said of…Public art, environment, history, and the locals all collide in the Anacostia River
7:02am By Brentin Mock
The Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., reacted less than embracingly last month to the idea…Will climate change ruin Aspen’s economy?
6:33am By Ben Adler
Auden Schendler doesn’t seem like a worrywart. Tan, fit, blond, and perpetually smiling, he has…You’re happy and you know it — but how’s the rest of the world doing?
5:06am By Sara Bernard
Hey, global happiness meter! How we doin’? As NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports, the Organization…Coffee taste like dirt? That’s because it might be
Mon 7:59pm By Madeleine Thomas
By 2080, according to some estimates, nearly 70 percent of the world’s coffee supply could run…No solar, please — we’re Florida
Mon 6:08pm By Heather Smith
At the beginning of this year, I made a short list of predictions about what the future held for…Shark Week without sharks is just Week
Mon 3:07pm By Jim Meyer
It can be tough to convince people to care about a giant fish that lurks in the deep, making only…This architect builds with beer crates and recycled fabric, but don’t call him green
Mon 2:11pm By Brentin Mock
One of my fascinating reads this past weekend was a profile in the New Yorker of this year’s…Here’s your chance to chat with Michael Pollan
Mon 2:04pm By Grist staff
Join us for a live video interview with bestselling author Michael Pollan on Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. EST…Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country
Mon 2:02pm By Julia Lurie
Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There’s a good chance that your water comes from…Keystone XL could be even worse than you thought
Mon 1:56pm By Lisa Hymas
If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, it could lead to up to four times as much CO2 pollution as the…5 things I learned from DOJ’s elder statesman on environmental justice
Mon 1:43pm By Brentin Mock
So, I’m sitting in the cafe in Politics & Prose preparing to blog on this video that the…Teaching a humongous foundation to listen to small farmers
Mon 12:25pm By Nathanael Johnson
These days, Sam Dryden speaks in a soft whisper. When I met him for breakfast in the restaurant at…Fabien Cousteau pulls a Spongebob to live at the bottom of the sea for a month
Mon 8:02am By Jim Meyer
That Fabien Cousteau would become an ocean explorer may have been preordained. Fabien’s…Ask Umbra: How can I green up my back-to-school shopping?
Mon 7:03am By Ask Umbra®
Q. Well, it’s that time of the year again: back-to-school season. I’ve been trying to figure out…Sort of like the love train, but with a rapping polar bear
Mon 5:45am By Heather Smith
Group travel on Amtrak is something that is finessed by a select few: the nerds, the Mennonites, and…What to do with an overload of chard
Aug 10, 2014, 8:52 am By Alexandra Stafford
It’s the season of overflowing market bags, heavy CSA boxes, and gardens run amok. Alexandra…Copenhagen’s newest bike lane totally rules
Aug 8, 2014, 7:50 pm By Madeleine Thomas
In Copenhagen, where bicycles outnumber people and nearly 40 percent of residents cycle to work,…The little seed library that could … get busted by a state ag department
Aug 8, 2014, 7:14 pm By Heather Smith
It seemed like one of the most wholesome, homespun things that a local library could do — but it…
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