Light pollution could be contributing to cancer, depression, and obesity
Apr 2, 2014, 10:38 am By hrichmond
Air and water pollution are pretty understandable health risks. But light pollution? It sounds a…Japan has been ordered to end its infamous illegal whale hunt
Apr 2, 2014, 9:25 am By hrichmond
The U.N.’s highest court has finally called bullshit on Japan. For nearly 20 years after a…You can pry my grandkids’ sheet cake from my cold, dead hands
Apr 2, 2014, 8:03 am By andrewseve
In a last-ditch effort to dissuade millions of American children from a diet of Funyuns and…To attract minorities, the national parks need some better ideas
Apr 2, 2014, 7:02 am By Greg Hanscom
Last week, I wrote about the problems the National Park Service is having with hiring people of…ExxonMobil: Carbon caps? Fat chance. We’ll just keep on drilling.
Apr 1, 2014, 11:00 pm By benadler
If you thought ExxonMobil might take climate risks seriously, think again. Last week I explained why…Watch live: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks climate solutions
Apr 1, 2014, 5:00 pm By Grist Staff
Starting at 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET, watch Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) discuss the push for…Cops want you to stop crime by hanging out in sketchy areas
Apr 1, 2014, 4:56 pm By hrichmond
The LAPD is giving crowdsourcing a try by asking residents to hang out in high-risk areas.…Republican’s bill calls for weather forecasting, not climate forecasting
Apr 1, 2014, 3:49 pm By John Upton
If Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) were a squirrel, he’d have starved over the winter. Like a…Even better than more cowbell: Doctors are prescribing bike-share memberships
Apr 1, 2014, 2:52 pm By hrichmond
Feeling the wind in your hair is way more fun than popping a pill. And now Boston residents can say,…Risk game: What a warmer planet means to the bottom line
Apr 1, 2014, 1:33 pm By Heather Smith
Kate Gordon has been described as Tom Steyer’s “secret weapon,” but it turns out that finding…These sad photos of NYC’s gentrification show chain stores replacing local businesses
Apr 1, 2014, 1:12 pm By hrichmond
Sometimes you can see a building’s history in its architecture – old Pizza Huts, with their…Leaked IPCC stunner: Going bald slashes your carbon footprint, offsets Arctic ice loss
Apr 1, 2014, 12:56 pm By Amelia Urry
Walter White may have been a sociopathic drug kingpin, but he knew how to lower his carbon…Is this man the greenest governor in America?
Apr 1, 2014, 12:30 pm By Amelia Urry
Tune in here at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET to watch Washington Gov. Jay Inslee discuss his plans to fight…Californians to receive $30 to $40 climate credit this month
Apr 1, 2014, 10:43 am By John Upton
A year and a half after California started forcing some big polluters to pay for pumping…Fish massages are the secret to sustainable caviar
Apr 1, 2014, 10:43 am By hrichmond
The old way of getting caviar: Kill a fish and steal its eggs. The new way: Give a pregnant sturgeon…Hawaii might legalize hemp — for environmental reasons, of course
Apr 1, 2014, 9:26 am By hrichmond
Jeremy Brooks With 20-some states already on the legal-cannabis train, no wonder Hawaii wants to…More Americans willing to try cannibalism than veganism, new study finds
Apr 1, 2014, 8:13 am By Darby Smith
Celebrity endorsements aside, converting to veganism remains a hard sell to most Americans. How…Teaching butchers — and brewers, and picklers — to stay out of the red
Apr 1, 2014, 5:34 am By Nathanael Johnson
About a dozen potential students sat in as many chairs, crowded into a narrow room behind a butcher…Obama endorses Senate climate hawk Brian Schatz in Hawaii race
Mar 31, 2014, 5:48 pm By benadler
White House / Pete SouzaBrian Schatz gets a nod from POTUS. There is no surplus of environmental…It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying wind turbine!
Mar 31, 2014, 3:29 pm By hrichmond
Are we the only ones who can’t think of blimps without thinking of Blimpie’s sub sandwiches? (We…
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