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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Sep 3, 2014, 12:18 pm By Lori Rotenberk
Jeff Marshall rolls along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, counting barns on the horizon — 50 so far…Why Indiana is doing sauerkraut right
9:05pm By Eve Andrews
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9:03pm By Sara Bernard
If you are a sucker for a truly excellent croissant but attached at the cord to your hairdryer, you…How to make a delicious cocktail out of wildflowers
6:41pm By Tama Matsuoka Wong
Yossy Arefi Foraged vegetables are always more fun to cook. So our resident forager, Tama Matsuoka…Why Illinois is doing booze right
12:20pm By Eve Andrews
Sonat Birnecker Hart and Robert Birnecker Koval DistilleryChicago, Ill. Koval encapsulates two…Hello again! Here’s what I’ve been up to for the past year
12:07pm 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
6:51am By Brentin Mock
And you thought rap was all cars, Riff Raff and Gucci Mane. Yeah, there’s plenty of that, but…The cynical money person’s guide to our renewable energy future
6:00am 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
Mon 8:08am By Nathanael Johnson
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?
Mon 6:52am By Ask Umbra®
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
Mon 6:40am By Heather Smith
At a certain point last week the knowledge that people I knew were dousing themselves with buckets…Do not buy oceanfront property
Aug 31, 2014, 7:55 am By Sarah Zielinski
The Canadian couple on my television screen tours a small home on the north shore of the Dominican…Why coal is (still) worse than fracking and cow burps
Aug 30, 2014, 7:48 am By Chris Mooney
Is fracking for natural gas good for the planet? To understand the pitched fight over this question,…This California bill will make electric cars way less pretentious
Aug 29, 2014, 7:29 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Finally, electric cars are for everybody, and not just the snooty, Prius-driving set: California’s…Thanks to fracking, there’s something in the water in Pennsylvania
Aug 29, 2014, 5:31 pm By Eve Andrews
It’s been a bad, bad summer for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. But…Why Idaho is doing french fries right
Aug 29, 2014, 5:11 pm By Eve Andrews
Blake LingleBoise Fry CompanyBoise, Idaho Let’s face it: The Gem State is really the Potato State,…Empty study paves the way for fracking in California
Aug 29, 2014, 5:10 pm By Sara Bernard
Well, there you have it, ladies and gents: Fracking’s just fine! A study found no significant…Katrina and Sandy cost over 2,000 lives. Will we do better next time?
Aug 29, 2014, 2:48 pm By Brentin Mock
Looking back, nine years ago this week, when Hurricane Katrina landed on the Gulf Coast, making a…
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