Vanilla Ice became an Amish farmer when no one was paying attention
Feb 24, 2014, 10:56 am By hrichmond
Here’s a reality show without any backstabbing, pregnancy scares, or limo hookups: Vanilla Ice…Extreme weather means we have traffic-related musical numbers now
Feb 24, 2014, 9:34 am By hrichmond
You know all those covers of Frozen’s “Let It Go” floating around the internet? Blame severe…Father of the ride: One dad’s bike quest ends expensively on eBay
Feb 24, 2014, 8:03 am By nathanael47
For the past couple months I’ve been trying out cargo bikes, city bikes, and electric bikes, in an…Ask Umbra: What’s better than butter? Spreads will roll
Feb 24, 2014, 6:20 am By Scott Rosenberg
Send your question to Umbra! Q. I follow a largely vegan diet, but I often make exceptions for…Move over, baking soda: Surprising pantry items that double as cleaning supplies
Feb 23, 2014, 8:10 am By ameliaurry
This article originally appeared on Food52.com: Pantry items that double as cleaning tools, part II.…This artist creates tiny anti-fracking scenes with vintage figurines and postcards
Feb 22, 2014, 9:36 am By Grist Staff
New York state-based photographer Brandi Merolla was trying to figure out her next project when she…What can John Kerry accomplish with his climate talk?
Feb 21, 2014, 5:42 pm By benadler
It was an exciting moment for environmentalists Sunday when Secretary of State John Kerry gave a…Fracking infrastructure? Not in my backyard, says Exxon CEO
Feb 21, 2014, 5:22 pm By andrewseve
Woe is Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil. Public utility Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp. has had the…This glowing sea shrimp is so bright you might think you’re hallucinating
Feb 21, 2014, 4:05 pm By hrichmond
When she saw a bright blue flash in a jar of water she’d collected off the coast of South Africa,…Believe it or not, January was full of big, warm climate anomalies
Feb 21, 2014, 2:48 pm By darbyminow
NCDC/NOAAClick to embiggen. Much of America is about to be overrun by another miserable…Buy this gizmo, and you’ll only ever need one candle for the rest of your life
Feb 21, 2014, 2:29 pm By slaskow
This very clever gizmo solves a problem that humans have struggled with for hundreds of years: the…Is the Arctic really drunk, or does it just act like this sometimes?
Feb 21, 2014, 2:20 pm By darbyminow
NASA/GSFCThe jet stream in a particularly wavy state. This episode of Inquiring Minds, a podcast…The city should shovel your sidewalk
Feb 21, 2014, 1:52 pm By benadler
It’s an odd fact of life in New York City that after a snowstorm the streets are nicely plowed but…This new IKEA bookshelf system could save forests of trees
Feb 21, 2014, 1:32 pm By slaskow
IKEA is, functionally, in the business of selling ground up trees, sometimes covered in very, very…Meet the smart farm you can control with a smartphone
Feb 21, 2014, 1:07 pm By acortes2014
Repurposed shipping containers have long enjoyed a place in the spotlight of sustainable development…Farmers fed their hogs ground up piglet intestines … but, um, for a good cause?
Feb 21, 2014, 12:51 pm By slaskow
Well, this is horrifying. A bunch of piglets at a hog farm contracted “porcine epidemic diarrhea…In new Pacific trade talks leak, “climate” becomes the unmentionable
Feb 21, 2014, 12:37 pm By Heather Smith
Time to get excited, everyone: There’s a freshly leaked document from the Trans-Pacific…Baby poop could make sausage healthier
Feb 21, 2014, 9:40 am By hrichmond
Can you give sausage the health benefits of probiotic yogurt by fermenting it with bacteria from…Microscrewed: Why California’s drought could muck up local beers
Feb 21, 2014, 7:05 am By samanthalarson
By now we’ve all heard that this year’s dry spell has left California officially screwed. With…Turn California’s drought into a game with the water-saving equivalent of Flappy Bird
Feb 20, 2014, 4:57 pm By jesszimmerman
Sure, if you live in drought-stricken California, it’s very important that you save water. But…
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