Some BPA-free plastic is actually worse for you than normal plastic
Mar 5, 2014, 3:13 pm By hrichmond
Today in “time to move into my underground bunker,” BPA-free plastic — touted as the safer,…Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing too quickly for mappers to keep up
Mar 5, 2014, 3:07 pm By Darby Smith
Twenty-five years ago, miles of marshy land and grasses separated the small fishing outpost of…California’s drought is so bad people are turning to witchcraft
Mar 5, 2014, 2:07 pm By hrichmond
Did you know that witches help make Two-Buck Chuck? Sadly no one from The Craft is involved, but…This rapping polar bear wants Obama to reject the Keystone pipeline
Mar 5, 2014, 12:59 pm By hrichmond
Well, this is a new one: “Frostpaw the Polar Bear” has a message for Obama, and it rhymes. The…Fairer fare: How to turn food system kinks into win-wins for growers and eaters
Mar 5, 2014, 12:51 pm By Nathanael Johnson
This is part of a series in which we’re asking what pragmatic steps we can take to make regional…These customizable sandals help Ugandan women go to college
Mar 5, 2014, 10:52 am By hrichmond
Is tying your shoes the best part of your day? Then this news will make your LIFETIME! When you buy…Wanna get West Nile virus? Climate change will help
Mar 5, 2014, 9:27 am By hrichmond
Click to embiggen. Contracting the West Nile virus is too damn hard. You have to go somewhere hot…Get off my lawn! Organic farmers just can’t get along with GMO-growing neighbors
Mar 5, 2014, 7:00 am By andrewseve
Another day, another bunch of old, white guys complaining about their neighbors screwing up their…It’s official: People around the world really are eating more and more alike
Mar 5, 2014, 3:42 am By Nathanael Johnson
You’ve probably heard that the food people eat worldwide is getting more and more homogeneous. As…You can blame Warren Buffett for many of those exploding oil trains
Mar 4, 2014, 10:47 pm By Lisa Hymas
We’ve written a lot about the dangers of shipping extra-flammable oil in flimsy rail cars that…We’d love these new fair-trade sustainable condoms, if the marketing weren’t kinda sexist
Mar 4, 2014, 4:58 pm By hrichmond
Is there anything more fun than sexism in marketing? (See: Bic Pens for Her. And yes, everything…How to make natural gas more climate-friendly
Mar 4, 2014, 4:25 pm By benadler
This is a story about natural gas leakage, and we’re not talking about what happens after your…That old, rusty underwater pipeline? Nothing to worry about!
Mar 4, 2014, 3:23 pm By andrewseve
Recently, scenes from the frozen Great Lakes region have brought to mind the post-apocalyptic icy…New York could turn its trash into giant floating compost islands
Mar 4, 2014, 3:05 pm By hrichmond
First NYC firm PRESENT Architecture dreamt up a plus-sign-shaped strainer-pool that would filter…Tied to the rusty White House fence: Two Keystone protesters’ arrest odyssey
Mar 4, 2014, 1:14 pm By Heather Smith
Maria Langholz hadn’t been to class all week. She had transportation to Washington D.C. to wrangle…It only takes otters 25 years to recover from an oil spill
Mar 4, 2014, 12:23 pm By hrichmond
Kinda hard to believe, but the Exxon Valdez oil spill was 25 years ago. “Yeah, sheesh,” says the…Henry David Thoreau would have given “12 Years a Slave” the Oscar for best picture, too
Mar 4, 2014, 12:00 pm By Greg Hanscom
I’m glad to see that 12 Years a Slave won a few well-deserved Oscars Sunday night, including best…Naples is cleaning up its streets by DNA-testing dog poop and tracking down the perpetrators
Mar 4, 2014, 10:53 am By hrichmond
Dog shit doesn’t do(o) much for green space. Sidewalks, public parks — pretty much everywhere is…Iron Maiden singer will fly around the world in a giant hybrid airship
Mar 4, 2014, 10:30 am By talvarezgrist
Bruce Dickinson — yes, the Bruce Dickinson — plans to pilot a hybrid airship called The…South Korea wants to put endangered species in gigantic bubbles
Mar 4, 2014, 9:47 am By hrichmond
Yeongyang County is a remote, mountainous, and relatively untouched area that’ll soon be home to…
- Visit Grist at grist.org
- Bookmark and Share
- Grist RSS Feed
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
Earth911
EcoWatch
ENN
Green Car Congress
Greentech Media
Grist
Little Green Blog
MNN
Nature
NRDC
The Ecologist
TreeHugger
Trellis
Yale e360